Modern Warfare 2: A Reaction To Murder
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 Posted in Comment, News | No Comments »Yes, I’m a week behind the rest of the world. It’s been a busy week, so last night was the earliest I could open my copy of Modern Warfare 2. I’ll save my reservations about the game (it is not ...
The Ratings Game
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 Posted in Comment, News | 8 Comments »This afternoon, the Government declared that PEGI will now be the sole classification system for video games in the UK. And the crowd went wild. Clearly, I must be missing something though. How is this triumph for the Pan-European Game Infomation ...
Is Ghostbusters doomed to fail?
Sunday, June 14th, 2009 Posted in Comment, News | No Comments »Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. It may sound a bit extreme but that's probably how most Ghostbusters fans that don't own some form ...
Extra life for 1up?
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 Posted in Comment, News | No Comments »One of the big news stories this morning was the sale of the 1up Network to UGO and the closure of Electronic Gaming Monthly, a publication that's been bringing news, previews, reviews, etc. for twenty years. In these dark times of ...
Animal Tragic
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 Posted in Comment, News | 3 Comments »The folks over at Destructoid are reporting that Fable II has been heralded as the most animal-friendly game of 2008. Now as Mr Sterling, esq., so validly points out, this is a game where you earn Achievement Points for kicking chickens ...
Details, details
Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in Career, Comment, News | No Comments »Press releases are tricky things to deal with. It’s bad enough when writing to inform the consumers, but when you’re writing to inform the retailers who will inform the consumers, it’s even more important to get things write, so that ...
“Must have been rats…”
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in Comment, News | 4 Comments »It’s a sure sign that the industry isn’t losing any momentum, or indeed meaning to its userbase, when the merest whisper of a new title caused such a stir. Earlier this week, Eidos hinted that a fourth Thief title could be ...
Parents Just Don’t Understand
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Comment, News | 4 Comments »A man dressed in full body armour rappels down a building, a sub-machine gun dangling by his kneecap. What do we suppose is he going to do with it? Use it as a makeshift racket in a game of ...
Pints Mean Prizes
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Comment, News | 4 Comments »As happens with GDC or any other games event, there's a lot of news breaking this week. Games being announced, release dates being allocated, interviews, figures being thrown about left, right and center - it reminds you why this is ...
CliffyB - Not So Epic?
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Comment, News | 3 Comments »Do a quick image search for a LAN party and you’ll soon find pictures like the one above. Albeit bigger and not cut down to fit this blog. Do any of these people seem uninterested in PC games? Are they all ...
