Fantasy Football: Fantasy Man's 50 Projections You Can Take To the BankWednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 1:40AMIt's that time of the year again. When you gather around the drafting kit or enter your online draft three hours early to see what pick you ended up with. Just remember to make your fantasy football draft picks with your heart. That is, if you don't have any interest in winning. Here's a few projections you might want to consider before clicking the draft button. 1) Larry Fitzgerald will finish ...
Wake upThursday, March 25, 2010 @ 3:07PMIt’s Friday and Screen Play’s brain is feeling a little fuzzy after another big week. As I reached for the coffee to try to get a jump start this morning, I remembered that Sims creator Will Wright signed off his appearance at the recent Games Developers Conference in San Francisco by revealing that he played a Nintendo game every morning to boot up his brain. No, it’s not Brain Training. Bad ...
Start with a (familiar) bangSunday, March 14, 2010 @ 3:44PMScreen Play believes it's important to champion innovation at every opportunity. What then do we do with a game that fails to innovate, but refines, polishes and hones its gameplay to what feels like absolute perfection? You simply enjoy it. Screen Play has been enjoying God of War III over the past weekend, and can confirm it's another spectacular epic that should satisfy any Kratos fan. I won ...
Play it again, SamWednesday, November 18, 2009 @ 2:49PMUbisoft's blockbuster Assassin's Creed II hits store shelves in Australia today, hot on the heels of other highly anticipated sequels such as Modern Warfare 2 and Left 4 Dead 2. Screen Play was a big fan of the original despite its much-criticised repetition, so I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into Enzio's Renaissance adventures. But today I'm interested in hearing from you about ...
Grand dealThursday, November 5, 2009 @ 2:04PMAdventure specialists Telltale Games is giving away an episode of Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures this weekend to celebrate the cracking pair's 20th anniversary. It's now been two decades since Wallace and Gromit first blasted their way to the moon in search of cheese in A Grand Day Out. TellTale is also donating to Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation or the Child's Play charity for ...
The need for CreedThursday, October 29, 2009 @ 6:59AMUbisoft has released the first of the three episodes in a series of short Assassin's Creed movies. The publisher, which has aspirations of becoming a serious player in CGI film production, says the Assassin’s Creed: Lineage short movies combine live action and computer generated imagery to explore the events that happen just before the upcoming Assassin’s Creed II video game begins. The films ...
Australians get Mario Bros firstWednesday, October 28, 2009 @ 3:19PMNintendo has confirmed that Australians will soon be able to get their eager hands on New Super Mario Bros. for the Wii, with the game to hit retail stores on November 12 - ahead of the US, European and Japanese releases. The game lets four players play together simultaneously, either competitively or cooperatively. As players try to work the way through the courses they can ride Yoshi, using ...
PlayTV likely before ChristmasTuesday, October 27, 2009 @ 5:29PMOver two years after first announcing it was turning the PlayStation 3 into a personal video recorder (and a year after its European debut) Sony is still yet to release the PlayTV add-on in Australia. PlayTV is a little black box which connects to PS3 via USB and features twin high-definition digital video tuners. Users can watch one channel while recording another, and pause live TV. Back in ...
The waiting gameThursday, October 15, 2009 @ 3:04PMAt the recent Digital Distribution Summit held in Melbourne, the former worldwide games portfolio manager of Xbox Live Arcade made some interesting comments about lobbies in multi-player games. David Edery noted that the more multi-player games that are available in the market, the lower the chances are of players of any one game being able to regularly find competitors to play against in a ...