Game: Borderlands: The Zombie Island Of Dr. Ned Platorm: XBox 360 Developer: Gearbox Software Publisher: 2K Games For anyone out there that loved Borderlands as much as I did you can now download the first of a series of expansions for 800 Microsoft points off of Xbox Live, which is about £6.80 in real money. [...]
Mon, November 30 2009 » Reviews, X-Box 360 » 5 Comments
Zombies getting you down? Blasting them away with impersonal projectile weapons losing that viceral appeal? Want something a bit more tactile? Want to let the zombies get so close that you can feel their hot rancid breath your face before dispatching them with a satisfying “thwonk”? Then you need to get yourself a Baseball Bat. [...]
Fri, November 27 2009 » Competitions » 4 Comments
It’s been 3 years now since New Super Mario Bros was released on the DS. Finally it has a sequel, but this time it’s returned on the Wii. And it’s returned with vengeance, horrible, horrible vengeance. Mario has never been so damn cruel and Joefeesh will tell you why…
Fri, November 27 2009 » Reviews, Wii » 6 Comments
Game: Left 4 Dead 2 Format: PC, XBox 360 Developer: Valve Publisher: Electronic Arts Few games this year seem to have been more contentious than Left 4 Dead 2, announced at E3 2009 to what seemed to be a reaction of joy from one section of the crowd, and calls for boycott from another. The [...]
Thu, November 26 2009 » PC, Reviews, X-Box 360 » 10 Comments
Here at The Newb Review we like to think that games journalism isn’t all about picking up popular games and telling you how great they are. Tom01255 has adopted this idiom as his own personal mantra as he delves into games that everyone seems to love, but he really doesn’t… Join us as he talks us [...]
Wed, November 25 2009 » Articles, Massively Overrated Games You Probably Should Avoid » 21 Comments
Every year the Child’s Play charity seeks donations to aid children’s hospitals throughout the world and this is done with help from the gaming community. Child’s Play is a charity set up by the guys at Penny Arcade to show that the video games community is a loving and caring community and of course to [...]
Tue, November 24 2009 » Gaming News » No Comments
Game: Battle Tanks Format: PS3 (Playstation Network) Developer: Gameloft Publisher: SCE Show me a guy that doesn’t want to drive a tank, blowing holes in walls and destroying enemy tank and I will show you a man with no soul. Show me the young boy who hasn’t turned his bedroom floor into a monumental [...]
Tue, November 24 2009 » PS3, Reviews » 8 Comments
Game: Battlefield Bad Company 2 Format: PS3 Developer: EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE) Publisher: Electronic Arts Our good friends over at EA invited tom01255 to jump in on the multiplayer Beta for the upcoming Battlefield Bad Company 2 (affectionately called BFBC2). BFBC2 is the second first person shooter for the next-gen consoles. Whilst its predecessor [...]
Mon, November 23 2009 » PS3, Previews » 3 Comments
Well hello there readers! And welcome to the second and final part of my “Modern Warfare 2” 
LOL ROFL LMAO etc. etc. In this part I shall tackle the multiplayer side of the game, both the new “Spec Ops” mode and the traditional online multiplayer modes. BUT! Before we take that deep plunge let me first recap on the first part (which if you haven’t read you, should do so here: http://tiny.cc/eN9Zs) for those of you naughty naughties that haven’t read it.
Fri, November 20 2009 » Reviews, X-Box 360 » 1 Comment
Electronic Arts announced last night that they are going to shut down Pandemic Studios, the developers made famous by the Mercenaries games. This will not effect their soon to be released title The Saboteur, as well as other future titles based off of their previous games. Nick Earl, EA Games Label Senior Vice President, had [...]
Fri, November 20 2009 » Gaming News » No Comments
