war

Turning back the clock with Star Wars: Empire at War

Crave Star Wars: Empire at War is old-school in more ways than one, and we're not talking about the brilliant packaging. These modes take place in the context of a story-based campaign, charting the course of the whole war and featuring all the landmark...

Tags: lucasarts entertainment, war, star, enemy

20 January 2006, 7:45

God of War: Greek chic

Crave To get noticed then, God of War needed to be just about the most violent game ever made. If you thought GTA: San Andreas' cartoon violence was a bit shocking, wait until you see the amount of strawberry jam that's splattered around in God of War.

Tags: sony computer entertainment europe, war, monsters, god

15 July 2005, 11:06

Middle Age crisis: Medieval II Total War

Crave With Warhammer: Mark of Chaos promising demented fantasy thrills in a few weeks' time, more real-world treats will be along sooner in Medieval II: Total War. The fourth in the Total War series, after Shogun, Medieval and 2004's Rome, Medieval II...

Tags: sega, war, fans, map

6 November 2006, 16:31

Crave TV: Defcon, the nuclear war simulator

Crave Watch Crave TV's video review to witness the war in action (click on the player above). Those who feel compelled to wage global thermonuclear warfare should check out Defcon, out now for PC. This game may lack the face-to-face brutality of...

19 October 2006, 17:53

Crave Talk: A format war of mobile music downloads?

Crave Hopefully 2008 won't see the start of another format war, as there's really no space for it in the mobile market, and the record industry can't afford to keep pushing people towards pirating. Legal digital music downloads are skyrocketing in...

Tags: industry, model, unlimited, consumers

3 April 2008, 14:32

Warner backs Blu-ray: Format war is as good as finished

Crave The war had to end sometime, and 2008 seems as good a time as any to move forward. We predicted some time ago that this year's CES would bring with it some sort of announcement about the future of Warner's HD format allegiance.

Tags: hd, ray, blu, blu ray

5 January 2008, 18:34

Operation Flashpoint Elite: Crave's Cold War crisis

Crave The single-player campaign is set in 1985 during the Cold War, with your role being to assist the US Army against Soviet forces. We doubt a real soldier would worry about his five o'clock shadow when faced with a real theatre of war, but at least...

Tags: budget, released, war, operation

12 September 2005, 10:23

Xbox 360 Gears up for War (and Christmas)

Crave The real beast on 360 this Christmas is Gears of War (pictured -- yes, that's in-game footage). That's enough of waffling on about the HD DVD drive -- what about the games we saw at Microsoft's splendid do yesterday?

Tags: microsoft, children, christmas, xbox

13 October 2006, 9:42

Hi-def format war: Warner Bros. plays both sides

Crave While the format war will continue behind the scenes for some time to come, at least this system could protect the rest of us from it and enable us to pick up the odd movie without having to own two different, incredibly expensive players.

Tags: lg electronics, disc, players, hd

4 January 2007, 13:45

Zen and the art of war: Creative Zen Vision:M

Crave This is the slowest moving MP3 player 'war' we've ever seen. Cashing in wholeheartedly on the recent decision to award Creative a patent for a the navigation system used on the iPod, the Zen Vision:M looks and feels exactly like an iPod.

Tags: creative, land, vision, ipod video

21 December 2005, 11:19

Asus Rugged Military NB: Made to take to war

Crave We've just taken an exclusive look at Asus' new tablet computer, which is designed to be tough enough to give to troops in Iraq. Currently at the prototype stage and on the show floor at CeBIT, it's the company's first model to be designed...

14 March 2007, 12:23

Battlefield 2: Two tribes go to war

Crave Every once in a while, a computer game comes along that takes over your life. Perhaps it's because we're pretty new to online gaming, but we're eating, sleeping and drinking Battlefield 2 at the moment.

Tags: electronic arts, attack, enemy, pilot

11 July 2005, 12:29

Google Earth vs Virtual Earth 3D: War of the world viewers

Crave Updates for worldwide virtual mapping applications are like buses: you wait ages for one then two come along at once. We had a spare minute this morning, so we thought we'd take a look at Virtual Earth 3D, released on Monday, and the fourth version...

Tags: models, eye, virtual, earth

7 November 2006, 12:22

Samsung BD-UP5000: Sit on the high-definition fence

Crave If you're an AV pacifist then the whole next-generation DVD format war will no doubt be as distasteful to you as kicking kittens. So is the war over with minimal bloodshed, or will we wading through the spilt entrails for some time to come?

Tags: samsung, discs, interactive, ray

16 April 2007, 11:30

Blu-ray trounces HD DVD in sales

Crave When Warner Bros announced it was becoming a Blu-ray exclusive studio, most observers of the format war agreed that it was a mortal wound for HD DVD. We previously thought HD DVD's only road to victory was by selling loads of cheap standalone HD...

Tags: war, hd, blu, sales

24 January 2008, 9:27