When I was told to cover a new “wee” game, I naturally assumed I was heading to a Nintendo event. Then I received the press release, and after realising my misinterpretation, was both astounded and intrigued. London’s first “hands-free”, pee-controlled videogames have been installed in The Exhibit Bar in South London. Now before you get over-excited, hands-free means that you [...]
When trying to decide where they should spend their hard earned cash, where else would a video game consumer look for guidance, than the scores handed out by the gaming press? But when all the blockbuster titles are picking up near identical 8/10 or 9/10 scores, how is anyone supposed to differentiate between them? Let’s take a look at the [...]
Woo hoo it’s nearly the weekend. So here is your final dose of this weeks’s gaming news. Google+ Games: Google has added games to its Google+ project. Unsurprisingly Angry Birds and Bejeweled are amongst some of the games that you can play right now for free. However, unlike Facebook everything to do with games like notifications and invites are confined [...]
I was interviewed by the BBC World Service about 6 weeks ago as part of a program about Internet addiction called Caught in the Web. They interviewed me, Danny O’Dwyer of Triple D Games and Tamoor Hussain of Citizen Game and CVG for 90 minutes. None of my pearls of wisdom made it into the final edit but it was [...]
Sony Ericsson are due to officially announce their “PlayStation phone” on Sunday at 6pm (GMT) at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011. It what is the worst kept secret ever, the Xperia PLAY as it is known, has already had almost all its details leaked online. In terms of form factor, the Xperia PLAY looks very similar to the PSP [...]
Nintendo have announced which games which will be available on launch day (25th March 2011) for their brand new 3DS console. Following on from our 3DS hands-on session last week in London, the stand out game from this list is Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition. Later on in the year sees the release of other big 3DS games like [...]
Eurogamer.net posted an article on the cost breakdown of a typical £39.99 videogame showing where all the money goes. The article in question contains 3 pages of text (or 2124 words) to explain this
This month’s Science Museum Lates on the 24th Nov 2010 is all about the science of games and gaming. For those that haven’t been to a lates event before, they take place every month in the Science Museum and it is strictly adults only. No children allowed.
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.
From Friday to Sunday, London’s Southbank will be transformed into a giant playground by Hide and Seek, a games studio working to invent new kinds of play. Here’s a basic summary of the plans, shamelessly lifted from the official site: Friday 6pm till 10pm: round-the-table games, spectator-friendly games, and one great big hundred-player chasing-across-the-Southbank game. Saturday 12 noon till 6pm: [...]
Rejoice, a consumer game show is upon us!
Microsoft’s contribution to this years London Games Festival is a great big Xbox 360 lounge in Soho. I’m talking lots of cushions, sofas, 360′s (surprise, surprise) and 300+ games all in one big room. Best of all it’s FREE. Right, I’m in. Anyone else? Location details: The Vinyl Factory Basement Studio Marshall Street London W1F 7QH Nearest tube station: Oxford [...]
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