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Welcome to Geek Native's command centre for console gaming. This is your hub for the latest news, reviews, and discoveries from the biggest names in the business. We're plugged into the worlds of the Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation to bring you highlights from the latest blockbusters and indie gems. If you mash buttons and explore digital worlds, this is your home for gaming culture. Power up and dive in.

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Continuing the archive of independent Console reporting (Archive Page 36).

Achieved with CryEngine 3

April 16, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Cry development portal team have released a preview of what their engine can do. This is a games engine – not a game itself, but the behind the scenes power. What the demo shows is an engine that makes it as easy as possible for publishers to concentrate on the story and action while […]

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: teasers

EA admit to using GW’s tank design – except not

April 15, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Yesterday the question was asked is EA stealing Games Workshop tank design?. It was a fair question to ask because the Games Workshop designed Baneblade looked an awful lot like a tank that later appeared in EA’s free-to-play Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances. The catch? The tank was never used by EA. GameSpot managed to […]

Filed Under: Console, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Electronic Arts, Free to play, games workshop, wargaming, warhammer 40k

EA caught stealing Games Workshop tank designs?

April 13, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You know how protective Games Workshop are of their ideas, models and designs? In the past they’ve blocked fan made movies that could have had a strong positive effect on their sales and they’ve even blocked retailers trying to sell their models from the ‘wrong’ use of pictures. Let’s just say Games Workshop are very […]

Filed Under: Console, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Electronic Arts, Free to play, games workshop, warhammer 40k

Fus Ro Dah your xBox as Skyrim gets Kinect

April 12, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Feels like an April Fools – but isn’t. Bethesda have announced Kinect support for Skyrim. This means you’ll be able to voice equip your hero, voice command your ally and voice save or load. Also; you’ll be able to voice shout your shouts. The stuff of legend.

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: Bethesda, kinect, Skyrim, xbox

Does the new, free, Mass Effect 3 DLC tease at new game?

April 5, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This blogger hasn’t yet got to the end of Mass Effect. No spoilers. No worry. What is known that many – not all, but many – gamers were not happy with the ending of the game. Others are less than happy that the ‘best’ ending can only be achieved with substantial multiplayer commitment. BioWare have […]

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: bioware, free to download, mass effect, Mass Effect 3

Asura’s Wrath DLC: Rage Never Dies

March 28, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Asura’s Wrath is an odd combination of anime and game, of story and beat ’em up and it seems to be collecting geeks who hate it and who love it. There’s now a DLC available for the game. The video below gives you a peak at the DLC as well as a taste for the […]

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: capcom, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Orbis leaks as likely successor to the PlayStation 3

March 28, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Computer game powerblog Kotaku has the juicy news of a trusted but protected source spilling the beans on PlayStation’s plans for the next gen console. The PlayStation 4 is currently known as Orbis. This could be the project name (like Durango) or it might actually be the name of the console. Sony may wish to […]

Filed Under: Console, Cool Tech Tagged With: playstation, PlayStation 3, playstation 4, sony

New Mistborn CRPG coming

March 28, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn epic will see life as a new RPG in 2013. Mistborn is a dark world filled with gothic creatures, ash and mist. The immortal villain, simply known as “Lord Ruler”, dominates the world. Allomancy allows masters to boost physical and mental abilities by ingesting flakes of metal, albeit temporarily. Those people who […]

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: Brandon Sanderson, crafty games, Mistborn, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Arc System Works tease with Xblaze trailer

March 27, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Arc System Works is responsible for an anime themed beat ’em franchise up called BlazBlue has released a trailer video for a new game called Xblaze. BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger had humanity about to become extinct thanks to a creature called “Black Beast”. Six fighters, each a master of magic, fought back. They helped humanity create “Ars […]

Filed Under: Console

Mass Effect cosplay: Samara cosplaying Samara

March 25, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wait, wait… before you ask what Geek Native is doing posting yet more posting more Mass Effect cosplay take a look at the cosplay of Samara below and ask yourself one question. Ask yourself why this Samara looks a lot like Samara from Mass Effect. I mean; why does this cosplayer look even more like […]

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: cosplay, mass effect, mass effect 2, Mass Effect 3, pictures

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