Archive for September, 2008

Hello gentlemen (and lady), it’s time for another installment of that series that everyone no one asked for, the Classic XBLA Awards!
I can’t really think of anything to pad this part out today, so let’s just get straight to awards, shall we?

Last night WipEout HD finally arrived on the PlayStation Network and I promptly bought it and got to the downloading and installing business, then later the more important business of playing it. And boy does it impress.
I hadn’t played a WipEout game for a good few years, but I was a big fan of the [...]

It should be no secret that I’m not a fan of crappy online-based achievements in games, the kind that alters how people might play, forces you to play in ranked matches, or tries to make you to do keep going for something you might not otherwise do. Well, I’m adding to the list of retarded [...]

Managers, salesmen and politicians are all people live in alternate worlds, spouting their own brand of bullshit, trying to twist people’s world views to match their own warped perceptions. It would seem Activision’s boss, Bobby Kotick is currently buying into his own crap, coming out with the following claim:
“We’re outselling [Rock Band] 6 to [...]

The recent hullabaloo over the delisting of Xbox Live Arcade Games got me thinking.  I own, sadly enough, close to 100 of these games.  I’m sure some of the ones I own are ones that are going to fall into the delisting “zone”.  Whether or not Microsoft is actually going to follow up remains to [...]

I had the end of last week off from work and ended up heading back to my parents’ place to spend a few days with family, since my sister was back home too, and as expected Rock Band made an appearance on a number of occasions.
On the Friday, whilst the rest of my family were [...]

The classic image of EA is that of the evil publisher who cares for nothing but profit, forcing their developers (swallowed up through brute force and big pockets) to churn out year after year sequels, usually with diminishing returns on the quality front. This year EA have sought to tackle that image, promising to be [...]

Despite enjoying a good beat’em up, it’s not a genre I’ve ever gotten into massively. For the longest time the I was into one series alone: Street Fighter. I’ve owned and played games from SFII Turbo through to the Alpha series, and even had the original EX (Street Fighter’s first move into 3D, which I [...]

Yeah, yeah. I’ll keep this short. Mostly because, like last week, a game I’ve been looking forward to is completely and utterly unplayable. Fucking AWESOME, or something.
Crashers was just a bad game that could have been saved by co-op had it actually been tested to see if it worked. Mercs is a good idea for [...]

Title: Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Publisher: Naughty Dog
Platform: Playstation 3

Setting out to create a game based on 30’s adventure serials, Indiana Jones, the classic adventure console/computer games, and modern action titles, well, that’s the easy bit. Deciding to wrap the entire thing up in a blanket of cinematic portrayal and seriously blur the line between film and [...]