Archive for September, 2008

Let me start off by saying that I am, admittedly, fond of sandbox games.  I use that term loosely, too.  Pretty much any game that lets you run around and start whatever, whenever, in whatever order you like.  I’ve always loved the freedom afforded you to just make the experience whatever you want it instead [...]

Remember how I said I hated the idea of region locking games, thus preventing friends across countries from playing with one another. Turns out Mercenaries 2, which just arrived this evening, features just that. How do I know this? Was this announced up front? Not at all. I know this because I’ve just tried to [...]

Will Wright’s Spore has been in the public eye for quite some time now. I remember watching a video quite some time ago that seemed full of promise. However, as many of us will know promise in a concept, or the odd brilliant feature, doesn’t necessarily translate into great gameplay (just ask our man Skills [...]

So it turns out that EA and Sony have struck up a deal so that Mirror’s Edge, a title I’m really quite excited about, will be getting exclusive downloadable content on the PS3. This sort of thing isn’t new, as platform holders struggle to claim some element of exclusivity, and isn’t too dissimilar to the [...]