Austin, TX  – February 13, 2012 -- Fork Parker, Devolver Digital’s infamous Chief Financial Officer and taco connoisseur, is once again sending his minions to the Game Developers Conference and SXSW in search of the finest ideas in independent game development as a part of this year’s Pitch Fork Parker initiative. Devolver Digital, curators of exquisitely handcrafted video games, provide i... more.

  The Sims 3 is getting some great new content this year, including two new expansion packs in the course of three months. The first of the two has been released: The Sims 3: Supernatural. I've spoken at length about what was added in the new pack in previous articles, so I'll keep this relatively brief and just let you know how polished this title really is. The main thing I'll focus on a... more.

  EA has released a press release to coincide with their release of their seventh full expansion, The Sims 3: Supernatural.  Anything that couldn't be gathered by the first article I presented on this pack can be found within.  Overall, this pack promises to add a ton of new gameplay and Sim creation possibilities, while allowing (via a global update) the disabling of certain controversi... more.

The Sims 3 expansions previously discussed here on The Gamer Scene (Supernatural and Seasons) were recently revisited in a gamescom livestream broadcast from Cologne, Germany.  A few new details were discussed with regards to each pack, though not much more than was discussed before was mentioned. For Supernatural, the new stuff revealed was somewhat interesting.  Witches and fairies have a m... more.

The Skyrim update 1.7 which came late last month for PC through Steam will be receiving the console treatment as it makes its way onto Xbox 360 worldwide and North American PS3 today.  The update will be released sometime next week for PS3 users in Europe. Update 1.7 brings many bug fixes present in the PC patch (including a dragon landing crash fix) along with water shader improvements, as w... more.

I have been pessimistically oriented toward virtual reality gaming since the Nintendo Virtual Boy in the early 1990's.  That may be about to change as I see what is developing with the Oculus Rift.  If the Kickstarter is anything to go by, the development team, along with the brilliant mind of Palmer Luckey, are onto something. The plan behind the Oculus Rift is not only to bring high quality... more.

The new update for the PC version of Skyrim has passed beta testing and is now available for download on Steam.  The patch apparently fixes an issue with dragon landings causing game crashes, adds water shader improvements, and implements bug fixes.  The console versions of the updates (which have not yet been released) will bring more Kinect support and bug fixes to the Xbox version and content... more.

Danilo Cagliari created Midian Design for the purpose of giving his audience a feeling of adventure game nostalgia, while creating new stories for gamers to enjoy. His latest title, "Oz Orwell and the Crawling Chaos," does just that. The game starts with our protagonist, Oz Orwell, filming outside Angst Mansion in Italy for his hit internet show "Ghosts and Mansions." Before Oz starts filming, ... more.

  The updates are back! Having taken a short break to finish off my first year at university, it's now summer which means weekly gaming updates are back and videos should get put up left right and centre. As usual I plan to bring all the news in terms of game releases, all the hits and misses from last week and any other news I may well stumble upon. Back, like usual, is the video form of ... more.

So we are back once again in my weekly series where I look at what games are released this week, what games went down well and went down badly last week, as well as the happenings and goings on here at The Gamer Scene. Back as usual, here is the video with all your latest info. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYm96EUt1UU Anyway as with all my video's, for you anti-youtube folk, here's a quick... more.