Out with the old and in with the older

well now that whats 'is face has gone to pastures new. So that means there's a new sherrif in town. That being me. It's gonna be a bit slow at first but rest assured I'm just as spiteful and unprofessional as anyone else around here so don't worry about things changing for the softer side of things.

Liam

Parental Guidance becomes Gamerphile.

It's been a good run, but times change and so do websites. We're moving to a much bigger and better website, and switching this one off. Gamerphile will have all of the writers can content you love, just on a much better page. We hope you will continue to enjoy our work as we continue to enjoy writing it.

You can find the new site here: Gamerphile

Article by: Edwin Jones.

New Left 4 Dead content confirmed by Valve.

Well, it's about time.

Valve have confirmed more content for Left 4 Dead on 360 and PC today in the form of two new Versus mode campaigns (probably the two missing co-op campaigns at last) and a survivor mode. I think I speak for the whole internet when I say that this is awesome.

Article by: Edwin Jones

Sony are suffering a serious slump in sales.

Whu-oh. The Global economic crisis seems to have hit another high profile target, this time a little closer to our gamer hearts than Woolworths according to Kotaku. Sales are down on every major system from the PSP to the PS3. Even the PS2 is not selling as well as it used to.

We hope that this is not as serious an issue as it has been for other companies as nobody wants to see Sony leave the gaming arena. Somebody has to keep Microsoft from getting all evil and Nintendo from being the only Japanese console manufacturer. Get well soon Sony.

Article by: Edwin Jones

The Resident Evil 5 demo is out on Xbox Live. Now.

Well, it is. And it is slightly dissapointing I must say. In a world with Gears of War in it, not being able to move, aim and shoot is ghastly. Having a partner you can't get rid of who gets killed by enemies because of her own stupidity which ends the game for you both is also just pants. You can do better than this Capcom, hold the game back and fix these issues. The graphics are very good though, so stick with them. Less screen tearing though please.

Article by: Edwin Jones

Fallout 3 updated

Like Fallout 3? Good news for you and several million other people then.

The powers that be have decided to give us a patch for the game on all formats that will stop random crashes, infinite XP exploits and which will let you drop now useless quest items clogging up your inventory. Sweet!

For more details click here.

Article by: Edwin Jones

UK games sales higher than ever

Happy new year!

It's a little late but the year is still young. To start off on such a new year how about some good news about the economy instead of all the bad stuff?

according to Eurogamer, over 80 million games were sold in the U.K. last year. That's almost 2 billion pounds (not dollars) in game sales. Crikey. This is about 23% higher than 2007 so although the economy is suffering games are yet again not taking any notice. Hurrah!

Here come the dark side of it so get ready to grit your teeth - most of these sales are to casual gamers. We are talking about everybody who bought wii-fit here. Sadly, real gaming is taking a back seat to Nintendo's money machine but they have made it clear for a long time now that they care about money and not an innovative or playable game. No, they want novelty toys for adults and by god do they sell a lot of them.

Don't blame Nintendo. Blame your parents. In fact, go out and buy them GOW 2 or Fallout 3 right now to show them how awesome games can be. A 360 can be bought for less than £100 these days so it's not hard to give them one. If nothing else they won't try to anger you again after seeing how ridiculously gory those games are. If you want to be a wimp about it get them 'Scene It' or something.

Wuss.

Article by: Edwin Jones