Ever since Sony first released details of the PlayStation Vita way back in January last year (or the NGP – next-generation portable, as it was being called back then), I was immediately sold on the premise. Then we were treated to an amazing full reveal in June, showing off the Vita’s hardware and amazing line-up of triple-A games. Sony also [...]
Videogames are about killing. That’s an intentionally provocative statement, but its one that the proponents of the “games are art” movement tend to skip over. They’ll suggest a large number of beautiful games; Shadow Of The Colossus often comes up here, despite being a game whose core gameplay revolves around exploring a landscape in order to find and kill beautiful, [...]
I think it’s fair to say that most game developers don’t like the pre-owned market. I wrote a piece a few months ago in response to the Heavy Rain’s creator’s comments, which claimed he was losing out on vast profit. This argument was based on the amount of PS3 trophies awarded to gamer profiles against the amount of recorded Heavy [...]
Final Fantasy XIII was undeniably beautiful. The world it created was vast and full of life. My explorations through the great plains of Gran Pulse and the Ice Fields on Cocoon never failed to drop my jaw on more than one occasion yet there was something not quite right about it. Sadly FFXIII had one major problem along with a [...]
MCV sources have revealed that both the Next Xbox “720″ and the Playstation 4 will be unveiled at the LA hosted E3 show in 2012. Colour me surprised. With the Wii U promising to underwhelm with its revolutionary touchpad controller that only one player can use at a time, hi-definition Miis and another round of iterations of the exact same [...]
Here is the story of what happened when I played Call of Duty for the first time. I’m experimenting with some new web reporting technologies at the moment. The post below about my Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 experience has made with a new online tool. Storify is a system that pull together multiple online sources and allows commentary. [...]
2011 has been a phenomenal year for games with plenty of huge sequels released, as well as loads of originals like LA Noire and El Shaddai. We’ve had new platforms launched; the 3DS and the *cough*Xperia Play*cough*. With iPads, iPhones and Android phones seemingly everywhere now, we’re absolutely surrounded by opportunities to play. Still, we all have our favourites and [...]
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 [...]
If I was to ask you which is the best hairstyle ever seen in a videogame, what would you say? Would you respond with any of the crazily sublime styles seen in the countless Japanese RPGs? Cloud Strife of Final Fantasy VII is one of my top contenders. Or would you go for something a little more wind-swept? Leon S. [...]
EA are the devil blah blah blah ripping us off blah underhand business practices blah blah won’t someone think of the children blah de bloody blah. Shut up, stop moaning and listen to yourselves for for a minute. In the past week the astonishing act of trying to make money once again shocked gamers to their cores as EA once [...]
I started playing Batman: Arkham City earlier on this week, something I was rather excited about. Ever since I completed the brilliant Batman: Arkham Asylum last year I’ve been dying to play Arkham City. This anticipation was not helped by playing a preview of the game at E3 2011 and interviewing the some of the Rocksteady Studios team. October 2011 [...]
After weeks of voting with a record-breaking 2.06 million votes cast, the 29th Golden Joystick Awards are finally upon us. I’ll be covering the event today so follow The Average Gamer on Twitter to find out what’s happening. One of the awards has already been announced – this year sees the first outing of the Outstanding Contribution Award, which will [...]
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