Archive for February, 2009
More regional nonsense
So yesterday Jay got around to picking up a cheap copy Scene It? Box Office Smash – a rather decent movie quiz game and all-round improvement on the solid Lights, Camera, Action – and so I dropped him a message on Live seeing if he was interested in a bit of friendly online competition. Being [...]
Posted by Ben: February 27th, 2009 under Rant, Thoughts.
Tags: 360, Bad Practice, Multiplayer, Online, Quiz, Region Locking, Xbox Live
Comments: 1
Spoiling for a fight
One of the worse parts of being mates with a bunch of yanks is that every time a game release comes around that I’m excited for I have this horrible three day wait whilst they enjoy the game and I’m sat twiddling my thumbs. This is all down to the fact that in the US [...]
Posted by Ben: February 18th, 2009 under Rant, Thoughts.
Tags: 360, Beat'em Up, Fighting, PS3, Release Dates, Sales, Xbox Live
Comments: 10
Games You Might’ve Missed: Assassin’s Creed
After finishing Prince of Persia in 2 days, I checked my email to discover that its predecessor from Ubisoft, Assassin’s Creed, was on its way. Not one to turn down a good game, I gamely fired it up to find out how good it was, especially compared to its spiritual sequel, Prince of Persia. I [...]
Posted by Jay: February 7th, 2009 under Review, Thoughts.
Tags: 360, Action-Adventure, GYMM, PC, PS3, Stealth
Comments: 1
NXE: Less dash, more bored?
OK, so is this just me or is anyone else finding that the NXE, the 360’s ‘wonderful’ new dashboard upgrade, is becoming rather less wonderful in terms of its speed. One of the major selling points was the fact that the NXE would rectify a lot of the speed issues the old dashboard was becoming [...]
Posted by Ben: February 6th, 2009 under Discussion, Rant, Thoughts.
Tags: 360, Glitch, Microsoft, NXE, Xbox Live
Comments: 4


