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European eShop daytime browsing restrictions dropped

European Wii U and 3DS owners may now gawk at 18+ rated eShop titles whenever they darn well feel like it. Eurogamer reports that Nintendo of Europe has finally removed the restrictions which allowed potentially objectionable content to be perused only between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m., regardless of the …

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Metro: Last Light – 12 things you need to know

The metro awaits Over the past few years, plenty of first-person shooters have vied for control of the multiplayer arena. But the battle for online supremacy (which Call of Duty continues to win) has left a bit of a void when it comes to meaningful single-player shooters. While 2010’s Metro …

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Deadly Premonition: Directors Cut out end of April

If you’re hungry for another Sinner’s Sandwich, Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut won’t hold your order too much longer. The re-release of the bizarre open-world horror/comedy game will hit Europe on April 26 and North America on April 30, publisher Rising Star Games announced. The PlayStation 3 exclusive, which perplexed …

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Harrison Ford talks Star Wars: Episode VII

Ever since J.J. Abrams was appointed director of Star Wars: Episode VII , much of the talk surrounding the project has been concerning the return of the original trilogy’s trio of stars. Harrison Ford was the first reported to have re-signed, and the ageing action star has now come out …

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EA reveals free SimCity compensation games

EA has revealed a list of games being offered free of charge to SimCity players as compensation for the title’s disaster launch. Any consumer who purchases and authenticates SimCity by March 25, 2013 at 11:59pm PST will receive a token to download a digital PC version of one of the …

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NELSONS COLUMN Bring Out Your Dead To Be Kickstarted

(opens in new tab) You’ve probably heard the news about the Kickstarter project to get a Veronica Mars movie funded. In case you haven’t, here it is in a nutshell: Veronica Mars was a fun, clever little series about a high-school private investigator (Kristen Bell) which ran from 2004-7. The …

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Offline SimCity did not fit with Maxis vision

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Maxis. Ire from SimCity players ebbed a bit when the game’s servers caught up (for the most part) with consumer demand and downtime and disconnections abated. Since then, anger has shifted to the root of the problem: SimCity’s need to always be …

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The Servant review

Joseph Losey’s 1963 satire on the British class system has lost none of its bite. James Fox is the aristo newly moved into his Chelsea townhouse; Dirk Bogarde (shedding his matinée-idol image) is the insidious manservant with an agenda of his own. Harold Pinter, in the first of three collaborations …

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Stolen review

Rehashing material already stomped into the dust by Liam Neeson and Mel Gibson, Stolen tells the time-worn tale of a man desperately trying to save his kidnapped daughter. Recently paroled master thief Will Montgomery (Nicolas Cage) attempts to leave his past behind until his young daughter (Sami Gayle) is nabbed …

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