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Kinect (Xbox 360) – First Impressions
Now that Weefz and I got to play with Microsoft’s Kinect (previously known as Project Natal) for Xbox 360 courtesy of the Kinect galleries, here’s my summary of our Kinect experience. As I covered in my Kinect galleries post last week, you can book your 30 min Kinect session either via facebook or in person at 4-6 Russell Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 7BN. The location itself is pretty easy to get to as it’s right next to the Covent Garden market. It is also pretty inconspicuous too with swathes of Kinect flags adorning the outside of the location. You really can’t miss it.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum Review (Xbox 360)
It’s been a long time since I’ve played such a well scripted and entertaining game as this. Batman: Arkham Asylum was originally released almost a year ago, but I just didn’t get round to playing it until recently. As it turned out Batman: Arkham Asylum is one of those games that I just couldn’t put down and had to play constantly until I finished it (rather like Assassin’s Creed II). After 3 fairly solid days play I had managed to complete pretty much everything the game had to offer, including all the tricky Riddler puzzles (more about these later). The fact that this game held my complete attention for so long indicates just how well crafted an experience it was.
Gravity Crash Review (PS3)
Avid readers of this site will already know that occasional contributor – Tikipod – is responsible for quite a lot of Gravity Crash, being the lead artist and level designer. So am I going to sugar-coat this review because of his involvement? Err, nope, I will be as impartial as possible. So time for the review then. Well, Gravity Crash is a bit like Marmite. You either love it or hate it. Personally, I love it and Weefz hates it.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 Review (Wii)
It’s me, Mario! Yep, it’s time to play that friendly, Princess saving, astronautic plumber again in the sequel to the fantastic Super Mario Galaxy. But this time Mario is joined by Yoshi too. See, I like Yoshi. I find him a lot more interesting and useful than Luigi. In Super Mario Galaxy 2 Yoshi has loads of really great skills and assets, like his massive tongue and insatiable appetite. Yoshi can simply eat and poo (coins) his way through levels planets. He also sulks and runs off when Mario gets knocked off him, which looks very cute! Luigi, to be honest, is a less fat, green Mario with few skills. He certainly can’t poo stars for start. Boring. Yoshi for the win.
Videogame Playground Part 1: What is fun?
How do non-gamers play? It’s a question that has puzzled me for a while. In a country where the main form of recreation involves throwing large volumes of toxic liquid down your throat and declaring “I can’t remember what happened. Must have been a GREAT NIGHT!”, I can’t help wondering how else people play. Sure there are places like Go Ape, which are great fun (unless you’re me) and certainly a type of play, but they’re an awful lot of hassle to organise. Not to mention expensive. And scary as shit. People read books and watch films for fun, but they’re very passive hobbies. I’m not sure that counts as play.
New Drum Rocker Announced
Remember the Drum Rocker I wrote about way back in March last year? Best games investment ever. Since I moved into my new place (with very few neighbours), we’ve been holding late night Rock Band parties and having a proper drum kit for them is just fantastic! Ion have now introduced a new version of
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This is kind of a teaser trailer really. I looks really cool, but you don’t get to see an awful lot of action from inFAMOUS 2. Still, it does whet one’s appetite for the game.
Did anyone play the first game, as we only got round to checking out the demo which was quite fun?
inFAMOUS 2 is due for release on the 23rd March 2011 for PlayStation 3.
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Xbox Live Gold Subscription – Price Hike In Nov 2010 Major Nelson (from the Microsoft Xbox team) has announced that Microsoft will be increasing the price of it’s Xbox Live Gold subscription in some of the countries around the world. From the 1st November 2010 the following price increases will come into effect. For those of you who have your credit card details on Xbox
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Guild Wars 2 – Necromancer Skills Demo NCSoft have released quite a bit of information about the new Necromancer class that will appear in Guild Wars II. Check out the videos below to see some of the Necromancer’s spells in action. Personally, I love a good minion spell. It’s great seeing them go off to beat the crap out of an enemy
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R-TYPE – Available Now On iPhone and iPod Touch You can now play the classic shoot-em-up R-Type on your iPhone or iPod Touch thanks to EA Mobile. It costs £1.19 and is available now from the iTunes store. This version of R-Type includes all 8 levels from the arcade version and 3 different control methods: Touch (self explanatory really, control your ship with your
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inFAMOUS 2 – Trailer This is kind of a teaser trailer really. I looks really cool, but you don’t get to see an awful lot of action from inFAMOUS 2. Still, it does whet one’s appetite for the game. Did anyone play the first game, as we only got round to checking out the demo which was quite fun?
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Hydorah – Awesome Free Shoot-em-up Hydorah is a gem of a game that has come out of nowhere made by someone called Locomalito. It is a real old school shoot-em-up (or shmup), i.e. it’s side scrolling and its bloody hard. I’m talking R-Type hard here, which coincidentally was one of the games Locomalito was really good at when he was
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Gamer Banter: Worst Game EVAR! As an average gamer who pays for all her own games, I’m pretty good at avoiding the terrible ones. At £30+ quid a pop in an industry with stupendous marketing budgets I usually make damn sure I’ve done my research before buying anything. Yet I have a terrible disability when it comes to the two
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Kinect (Xbox 360) – First Impressions Now that Weefz and I got to play with Microsoft’s Kinect (previously known as Project Natal) for Xbox 360 courtesy of the Kinect galleries, here’s my summary of our Kinect experience. As I covered in my Kinect galleries post last week, you can book your 30 min Kinect session either via facebook or in person at 4-6 Russell Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 7BN. The location itself is pretty easy to get to as it’s right next to the Covent Garden market. It is also pretty inconspicuous too with swathes of Kinect flags adorning the outside of the location. You really can’t miss it.
Batman: Arkham Asylum Review (Xbox 360) It’s been a long time since I’ve played such a well scripted and entertaining game as this. Batman: Arkham Asylum was originally released almost a year ago, but I just didn’t get round to playing it until recently. As it turned out Batman: Arkham Asylum is one of those games that I just couldn’t put down and had to play constantly until I finished it (rather like Assassin’s Creed II). After 3 fairly solid days play I had managed to complete pretty much everything the game had to offer, including all the tricky Riddler puzzles (more about these later). The fact that this game held my complete attention for so long indicates just how well crafted an experience it was.
Gravity Crash Review (PS3) Avid readers of this site will already know that occasional contributor – Tikipod – is responsible for quite a lot of Gravity Crash, being the lead artist and level designer. So am I going to sugar-coat this review because of his involvement? Err, nope, I will be as impartial as possible. So time for the review then. Well, Gravity Crash is a bit like Marmite. You either love it or hate it. Personally, I love it and Weefz hates it.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 Review (Wii) It’s me, Mario! Yep, it’s time to play that friendly, Princess saving, astronautic plumber again in the sequel to the fantastic Super Mario Galaxy. But this time Mario is joined by Yoshi too. See, I like Yoshi. I find him a lot more interesting and useful than Luigi. In Super Mario Galaxy 2 Yoshi has loads of really great skills and assets, like his massive tongue and insatiable appetite. Yoshi can simply eat and poo (coins) his way through levels planets. He also sulks and runs off when Mario gets knocked off him, which looks very cute! Luigi, to be honest, is a less fat, green Mario with few skills. He certainly can’t poo stars for start. Boring. Yoshi for the win.
