Origin Vs Steam / EA vs Valve

In what many are saying is in direct response to Steam’s announcement, yesterday, that they were launching a “Free-to-Play” initiative, EA have today mysteriously “withdrawn” Crysis 2 from sale via Steam. Furthermore they now list Crysis 2 as “only on Origin” in it’s product information page, despite the fact it can still be acquired from [...]

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Wed, June 15 2011 » Gaming News » 4 Comments

NEWbreview Podcast Episode 23

Joining Tom this week is the returning, Kieran Roycroft and Adam Radcliffe. Episode 23 contains all the usual great banter, the return of our 60 second review feature and of course Adam is back, thinking out loud and recording it and stuffs. ENJOY MP3 Download / iTunes / RSS Feed

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Sun, May 8 2011 » Podcasts » No Comments

NEWbreview Podcast Episode 22

King Steve, Lord Luke and….Ash, drop some bombs among other things while talking about what was without a doubt the worst thing to happen to the gaming community since the invention of the sawn off shotgun on GOW3, among other things. MP3 Download / iTunes / RSS Feed

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Tue, May 3 2011 » Podcasts » No Comments

Review: Crysis 2

Game: Crysis 2 Format: PC (not tested), PS3, Xbox360 Developer: Crytek Publisher: EA It seems to have become common practice to talk about what Crysis 2 doesn’t do. Certainly, we at the Newb Review could follow suit… ah, what the hell, let’s do it. Crysis 2 is a game that doesn’t (at time of writing) [...]

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Wed, April 27 2011 » PC/Mac, PS3, Reviews, Xbox 360 » 2 Comments

NEWbreview Podcast Episode 19

This week marks the return of Tom Wallis, to the hosting seat. Completing the unholy trio is of course, Adam Radcliffe and Kieran Roycroft. The topic of games that have changed your life is raised, there’s also a 60 second review of Fatal Frame, Adam’s been doing some thinking..and all the usually general chit chat [...]

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Sun, April 10 2011 » Podcasts » 1 Comment