Ingham vs. Titchmarsh: When gardeners attack
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 Posted in Comment | 1 Comment »If you're any sort of gamer and you have an internet connection, you're no doubt aware that last Friday's episode of The Alan Titchmarsh show featured a brief discussion on violence in video games. In what Channel Television insists was ...
The Expected Reaction
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in Comment | 3 Comments »Gamers have certain expectations for developers these days. Almost every current generation game is expected to have high quality graphics. Any multiplayer mode is expected to have online functionality. Every control scheme is expected to be responsive to player inputs. Moreover, ...
Accepting Failure
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 Posted in Comment | No Comments »"What happened? Did you find her?" "I'm sorry... she's dead." Telling a father his child is dead is hard. Even harder still when, only five minutes beforehand, it was you that killed her. Not intentionally, of course. In fact, in bartering and ...
Why Mario is better than Modern Warfare 2
Thursday, November 26th, 2009 Posted in Comment | 3 Comments »“Fuck Modern Warfare - this is the Game of the Year,” my flatmate beamed, his face stretched by the unrestricted smile flooding across it, his voice strained from laughing so much. We have just passed a particularly tricky section of the ...
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 ...
Rolling out the red carpet
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Posted in Career, Comment | 1 Comment »As constant Twitter posts, forum comments and the multitude of headlines have reminded me, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is finally here. And while the majority of gamers have been focused on the midnight launches at over 2,000 stores ...
Do you get what you paid for?
Monday, October 19th, 2009 Posted in Comment | 2 Comments »One of the biggest criticisms of notable journalist Charlie Brooker’s recent one-off TV documentary Gameswipe was the inclusion of Dara O’Brien. Many questioned whether or not he was a suitable ‘talking head’ for a documentary on games, but anyone who ...
Some Much Needed Characters
Saturday, September 12th, 2009 Posted in Comment | 4 Comments »The question of character stereotypes is often brought in gaming podcasts and features. GamesRadar’s recent Top 7 Lazy Character Cliches just go to prove there is only a finite number of character types we are expected to engage with – ...
What’s in a name?
Friday, August 21st, 2009 Posted in Comment | 3 Comments »This morning, a copy of the new Wolfenstein arrived on my desk. A colleague asks “Is that any good?”. I shrug but in a voice dripping with optimism say “It’s Wolfenstein”. My colleague snorts. My mind takes a step back and ...
Me, Myself and iPhone
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in Comment | 4 Comments »While I continue to work through my current gaming ailment, I find the only games I’ve really been playing are those on iPhone. Well, iPod Touch technically, but for the sake of simplicity, we’ll stick with iPhone. I’ve download a few ...
