It’s Spring (nearly) and with it come thoughts of cleaning or at least thoughts of other people cleaning. To try and get in to the spirit of the moment I decided to have a bit of a rummage around on my PC and maybe organise it a little. This tends to involve randomly deleting anything that looks messy (i.e. not [...]
We have seen it many times as videogame fans. Franchises becoming so repetitive in their sequels they become stagnated, before the ultimate rejuvenation and complete overhaul of the formula. This is highlighted by the recent rough times experienced by the Pro Evolution Soccer and Final Fantasy series. February 3rd is a big date for fight fans, for it marks the [...]
I recently posted about the Controlled Quantum Levitation on a Wipe’Out Track video that appeared on YouTube over the Christmas period which I think signalled the start of Sony’s advertising campaign for wipEout 2048 on the PS Vita. I asked our resident graphics expert who has worked in the videogames industry for 13 years to comment on the video. Expert [...]
I recently celebrated my 29th birthday, so in celebration, this essay – and it is an essay, before you start getting too comfortable – is one man’s ill-informed but highly personal exploration of the world of the shoot ‘em up. For the uninitiated, shoot ‘em ups, or ‘shmups’, are a sub-genre of games where the player is faced with a fairly [...]
Hello, hello, hello dear gamers. We’re back from a lovely Christmas break in York. I shall be cracking on with more glorious gaming content soon but first, a question. I just completed the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 campaign last night – my first time playing a COD game at all. Over the past few months I’ve heard mixed [...]
The world of gaming, particularly at this time of year, is pretty relentless. Constant news, previews, reviews, video logs, podcasts, week to week, month to month, and if you try to take it all in, well, you can’t really. What it boils down to, ultimately, is having the game on your TV screen, controller in your hands, enjoying it. But [...]
I attended the PS Vita Rooms event in London the other week. This open day allowed plenty of time to try out the various games and also getting used to the new hardware. That got me thinking about the viability of yet another piece of portable hardware. In this day and age it seems we’re loaded with more and more [...]
Censorship and parenting go hand in hand. Just the other day I had to elaborate on the end of Murphy’s War for my 3.5 year old son, giving it the alternative ending of “..and then they all swam to the beach, made friends and had a barbecue”. It’s not just about stopping kids from seeing or hearing things, it’s about [...]
Ghostbusters is one of my most, if not the most, favourite franchises of my life. Beginning with the first movie in 1984, it went onto spawn The Real Ghostbusters, a massively popular cartoon series that continued the timeline, and the successful movie sequel Ghostbusters II. With forums currently rife with speculation and rumours surrounding an allegedly confirmed third movie, and [...]
THQ dominated the motion-controlled fitness games market earlier this year with the brutal UFC: Personal Trainer. In a move of unprecedented grandeur they managed to gear 50 games industry folks forward into a month of press-ups and demonic v-ups all in the name of a trip to Las Vegas and the loss of a few extra pounds. Perhaps then Deepak [...]
Christmas is not far around the corner and with that comes the video game release rush – all the big names staking their claim for the biggest success over the holiday period. Whilst Electronic Arts have their yearly sports releases, THQ have their own baby – the WWE franchise. Indeed, since securing the rights to WWE in 2000, there has [...]
OnLive gaming has recently launched here in the UK and is designed to bring instant access to video games without the need for a console or installing games. Quite a bold claim, but they are having good success in the US markets. We’ve tested the service on my high-speed connection and on Debbie’s rather more prosaic 3.5Mb connection to see [...]
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