The Rabbids are back and still quite, quite mad in Rabbids: Alive & Kicking for Xbox 360 with Kinect and we’ve teamed up with Ubisoft to give away three copies of the game to the top three scorers on our webcam-tastic game. Just fire in and log your score, have as many goes as you want but be sure to [...]

Surpassing the first game in every way, Batman: Arkham City is crammed full of campaign missions, sidequests, secrets, puzzles, challenges, collectables and cameos. It’s a truly brilliant game and earned a rare 10/10 score in Ready Up’s review but finding all the game has to offer is quite an undertaking. Batman: Arkham City ranks alongside titles like Elder Scrolls IV: [...]

This year’s Tokyo Game Show played host to “Cosplay Collection Night @TGS”, a video game cosplay fashion show organised by renowned cosplay community Cure. Many of the costumes here match or even supersede those of the World Cosplay Summit, so the night becomes all the more strange when they all partake in the video game music dance party at the end of [...]

Specialist gaming headsets are nothing new, PC gamers have been using them since the early days of Counterstrike but it is only in the last few years that console gamers have been given the choice of using some superior quality audio hardware. Even then the choice was fairly limited. Last year Madcatz acquired the company Tritton and they have recently [...]

We have a strong adversarial streak here at Ready Up Towers. Whether it’s getting our heads shot off by Laura in Halo, getting our heads shot off by Laura in Gears of War, or getting our heads shot off by Laura in Call of Duty, there is true hunger for the heat of battle within these walls.
Thus, AbsoluteGaming is right [...]

PIRATES! Sorry, sorry, need to calm down a bit. I’ve always been a huge supporter of ninjas in the Pirate Vs. Nina Internet debate, but not when it comes to video games. As far as video games are concerned I’m all about the pirates. Which is why I wasn’t going to miss a chance to get my hands on Risen [...]

I have many skills. One of which is that I can draw. I also can play the saxophone and I can even fly gliders. Another skill of mine is the ability to write words… like these words… like these words that you are reading right here. One of my many ‘non-skills’ is the ability (or inability) [...]

It’s that special time of year again. No, it’s not Christmas. No, it’s not your birthday either. Well, it might be, but if so it’s purely coincidental and entirely off-topic. And even if it is your birthday, it’s not all about you. The world keeps turning. Get over it.
No, today is the day of the Golden Joystick Awards. Every year, [...]

Eight-year-old tomboy Morgane wants to grow up to be a swashbuckling, treasure-huntin’ pirate, just like her infamous father. In preperation for this, she spends her childhood years commanding a “crew” of her friends on dangerous adventures, such as beating up the local bully and smashing through bedroom windows. However, when her uncle suddenly disappears at sea, Morgane leaves her island [...]

THE TIME HAS COME! As gamers and developers worldwide continue to debate which is going to be the best first person shooter of 2011, we here at Ready Up have gotten our first hands-on preview of one of the competitors for the title. In order for a fair fight two of us were deployed to the event: myself, the cynic [...]

A few weeks ago I got an email from the mighty Prince of Xbox, Mr Acey Bongos. That’s right, our better looking UK alternative to Major Nelson. I was invited to the 2011 Xbox Gathering; I RSVP’d right away because you don’t say no to this man. I was up early and on a cross country train to get to [...]

It’s always fun when Fran and I get together. This time, though, we were meeting up for the love of female gaming, thanks to Ubisoft’s Women’s Day. This involved a swanky invite to the Haymarket Hotel, a place so exclusive that its sign was microscopic. We were going to be trying out a selection of dance and fitness games which [...]

It’s competition time again, folks: here at Ready Up, we’ve got loads of cool RAGE Xbox Live avatar items to give away!
To celebrate the release of id Software’s eagerly awaited first-person shooter RAGE, we’ve managed to get our hands on codes for some awesome avatar items including t-shirts for boys and girls, and weapons for your enemies’ faces. You could [...]

He said he worked for Rockstar. A firm, confident handshake. Steady eye contact. He fitted the description. This was my guy.
He lead me into a room. Blinds down, lights low. Two chairs beneath a tidy desk. A PC hummed itself to sleep in the shadows. A pair of thick rimmed glasses rested on the lacquered surface. A glowing screen bore [...]

Calling all Gears of War fanatics! Have you been searching for that one item which will show your love and dedication to the COG massive but just couldn’t think of what to get? Well look no further. The lovely Calibur11, who have teamed up with Epic, have given us one of their exclusive 3D Vault Armored Gaming Cases for us to [...]