Tag: Bad Practice

So the new trend for a lot of big titles seems to be to re-release the game about a few months to a year after the game’s original release. A few examples of this include Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – Ultimate Sith Edition and LittleBigPlanet: Game of the Year Edition. Both of these games [...]

I’ve been running through my fair share of video games lately, and one thing I noticed about a few of them as I was playing was that either I’ve become extremely fickle, or there are some really balls-to-the-wall bad ideas being trumpeted right at the start of games that really make the entire game unplayable.  [...]

The idea is simple: take the excellent framework of Battlefield 1942 and three of the most popular multiplayer maps that game produced, add in the Frostbite engine used to power Battlefield: Bad Company, simplify the class system and vehicles for a perfect ‘jump in and play’ style game and sit back and watch the copies [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For anyone looking for a quick way to add another ‘beaten’ title to their Backloggery listing, it seems Skate 2 is the game for you. Looking on the PS Store last night I spotted that, in EA’s infinite wisdom, they’ve released some day-one DLC that will unlock everything in the game (named the “Time is [...]

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 [...]