Archive for 'Thoughts'

Having been occupying my time recently with returns to well-worn games such as Rock Band (both 1 and 2) and Burnout Paradise, as well as wasting time on Battlefield 1943, which I will try to get a review out for in the next few days, it seems I should perhaps be actually trying to make [...]

Over the last few months or so I’ve been intending to write reviews for a number of games that I’ve played and beaten, though the distraction of playing the games themselves or lack of inspiration when it came to writing that never quite happened. However, so as not to leave them forgotten before I move [...]

I’ve been somewhat lazy on the writing front of late, though not aiding my writer’s block has been my current excursion to the US of A, which is now drawing to a close. However,as I sit here waiting to head to the airport for the flight home I find myself browing some of the gaming [...]

Apologies for the lack of updates, I’m in the process of getting a couple of reviews sorted, but have been busy with all the usual gubbins, including a bit of illness I’ve not been able to fully shake just yet. But enough of that, time for a little bit of a rant inspired by this [...]

Back when the XNA Community Games section was announced, the general reaction that I saw was one of cautious optimism.  The idea of independent developers getting a low-cost entry into the downloadable games field and actually have the chance to earn money doing it sounded like a noble endeavor, but the niggling doubt in the [...]

As ever I’ve been busy playing games over the last few months and thought I’d catch up with another mega review. I had intended for these to be a little on the shorter side than my regular reviews, but it seems my fingers got a little carried away on a couple of them. Ah well, [...]

For the first I can think of in quite some time I have absolutely no games on pre-order. Zero. Nadda. None. I literally can not think of a time in recent memory when that was the case, and it’s a slightly odd feeling, though a welcome one. I’m hoping this break in new titles might [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]