Patrick Budmar - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 8/02/2012 Kinect Star Wars and R2D2-themed Xbox 360 console coming on 5 April

The Australian release of LucasArts' Kinect Star Wars game and the limited edition Kinect Star Wars Xbox 360 console bundle has been set for 5 April. ...

Article | 6/02/2012 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC coming to PlayStation Network on 28 February

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's Content Season is coming to the PlayStation Network on 28 February, according to Activision Blizzard.

Article | 3/02/2012 New Forza 4 Car Pack coming to Xbox LIVE on 7 February

Microsoft will release the February American Le Mans Series Pack Car for Forza Motorsport 4 on 7 February for Xbox LIVE.

Article | 2/02/2012 Gaming Top 5: The gaming industry's most disastrous promotional stunts

Video games are big business and convincing consumers to buy the latest game is a challenge many developers and publishers have to contend with. Compa...

Article | 31/01/2012 Gaming Top 5: State-of-the-art racing games

Video game technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and if there is one genre where developers are constantly finding ways to get their games to look m...

Article | 30/01/2012 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 new season content available now on Xbox LIVE

Activision Blizzard has released its first batch of DLC for Modern Warfare 3, starting with a pair of all-new multiplayer maps.

Article | 20/01/2012 Gaming Top 5: Sega Dreamcast innovations that didn't take off

Back in the 1990s, Sega decided (perhaps due to the troubled Sega Saturn) to exit the 32-bit generation of video consoles early in order to bring out ...

Article | 25/01/2012 Gaming Top 5: Most unusually timed anime game releases

Read on for five of our top five choices of anime-based games that received an unusually timed release outside of Japan.

Article | 19/01/2012 Gears of War 3 "Fenix Rising" DLC now available on Xbox LIVE

Microsoft and Epic have released the third major game add-on for Gears of War 3, "Fenix Rising", on Xbox LIVE.

Article | 16/01/2012 "Arcane" rating system denies Syndicate reboot in Australia: EA

Despite high expectations by fans for Starbreeze Studios' reboot of the venerable Syndicate franchise as a first person shooter, the game has been den...

Article | 18/01/2012 Dark Horse to release digital Prototype 2 comic on 15 February

Vancouver-based developer, Radical Entertainment, has partnered with Milwaukie-based publisher, Dark Horse Comics, to create an all-new comic series b...

Article | 17/01/2012 Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning demo coming to Australia on January 17

Publisher Electronic Arts will release a demo for 38 Studios' Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning game on 17 January for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

Article | 16/01/2012 Sonic the Hedgehog interview: Sega Technical Institute lead designer, Chris Senn

Chris Senn got his foot into in the videogame industry by starting out as a computer graphics artist at Acme Interactive, previously known as Cinemaw...

Article | 13/01/2012 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s season of monthly content begins on Xbox LIVE in January

Activision Blizzard will be kicking off nine consecutive months of downloadable content for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 starting with Xbox LIVE on ...

Article | 12/01/2012 Call of Duty Elite for iOS now available on Apple App Store

Activision Blizzard has released the Call of Duty Elite iOS app in Australia and New Zealand.