Archive for 'Rant'

The time that I’ve spent playing 360 Arcade games in the past couple of weeks, especially when an entire party hops onto a game, has really made me curious.  Just what, exactly, does this “Certification process” that Microsoft runs for their games actually do?  I’m sure I’m nowhere near the first to ruminate on this [...]

The other day Epic released a patch for Gears of War 2 to fix the widely-reported matchmaking issues a lot of people were having. This was a relatively speedy response, however, it only addressed a very small set of the issues people have had with the multiplayer aspect of the game, which still suffers with [...]

When it comes to the current crop of consoles and their respective controllers you will find me placing my arse firmly in the camp that favours the 360’s pad. It’s comfortable in hand, even over extended periods of play, has a good weight to it, provides easy access to voice communication and is generally a [...]

Somehow I missed the news over the weekend that Eidos have been trying to temporarily suppress reviews scoring the new Tomb Raider less than 7/10. Ignoring how insanely idiotic this move was, especially after the whole Kane & Lynch/GameSpot debacle, this story causes me some concern.
See the main drive behind this was apparently Eidos trying [...]

There’s a news story doing the rounds today, and unless I’ve really missed something, it makes very little sense to me. ActiBlizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has been talking about Guitar Hero: World Tour, and more specifically the user-generated songs the game enables dedicated souls to produce.
Apparently they’ve had something like 25,000 uploaded already (though [...]

So it seems recently that a lot of developers are releasing betas for their games. I’d usually have no problem with this if it wasn’t for two things:
1. Making your beta an exclusive incentive
If you really want people to test your game and make sure it works properly, why limit it to a certain group [...]

Apologies for the lack of updates recently here on Prime Gamer, seems I’ve found myself somewhat distracted by the actual playing of games. It also seems some of the other writers have fallen off the face of the planet, and Skills, in the weirdest of twists, hasn’t found anything to hate recently.
So yes, on the [...]

Just recently a bunch of beta keys were released for Call of Duty: World at War, the latest entry in the Call of Duty series, a series who’s last entry I loved to pieces. But hearing and reading people’s reactions to the beta it seems my fears regarding the quality of World at War were [...]

While browsing the PlayStation Store today, I noticed there was a demo for Beijing 2008. Yes, a demo for the official Olympics video game, over a month after the Olympics are over and almost two months after the game’s release. Now I realize there may be some people who are interested in the game and [...]

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?