I am 32 years old. I play computer and video games, in some form or another, every single day. I do this because they give me a feeling of accomplishment, they make me feel like I have skills that can be applied successfully, and certain games enable a social aspect which I find hard to [...]
Something I noticed last night – even though you know that behind every fight are COLD HARD NUMBERS, which are there to make sure you will never ever win at your current level, and even though there’s six of them with rocket launchers and one of you with four bullets left in your gun, the [...]
Borderlands is a mixture of FPS and (MMO)RPG, which is available on the PC, Xbox 360, PS3, iPhone and Atari 2600. I lied about the last two. I’ve been playing through the PC version (thanks Drav!) for a wee while, and although I haven’t got to play co-op yet, I’ve got enough of a grasp [...]
World of Warcraft is the MMO with the largest player base. There’s billions of ‘em. It’s the game that all new MMOs are held up against. It’s the game that all MMO developers and publishers are looking to beat, or at the very least steal a large chunk of players from it. For the last [...]
In no particular order, list is subjective blah blah: World of Warcraft – Introduced me to multiplayer, but properly. Led to the pan-European drinking raids. A world to explore and conquer, with room for all sorts of play styles. Love it. Fable 2 – It’s all about you. Lots of “fuckin hell!” moments, in a [...]
The UK Government would like to take your internet and throw it to the music and film and TV industries to fuck with. Spend 3 minutes signing this, it is very worth it. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/dontdisconnectus/
I’m annoyed by how much the games critics have thrown praise at Far Cry 2 (or at the very least, not ripped the shit out of it). I’m also annoyed at my own lack of patience, so I’m going to be a bastard and rip the shit out of it. Here goes! There’s no story. [...]
FYI, that is his real phone number (takes you to his home voicemail).
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With regards to this post: Steam unlocked Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 an hour earlier than I thought, so I got chance to give it a go tonight. Anyways, the point is, I now know what THAT moment is. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare had a bit in it where you played as [...]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (or CoD6). It’s available to play for Xbox 360 owners. It’s sort of available to PC retail purchasers (Tensing had troubles getting Steam to recognise that he owned an installed copy, and didn’t want to download the whole game again). It’s not yet available to Steam pre-orderers (of which [...]
best game evr but no dedicated servers on PC and no party chat on 360 and keith vaz is shit @ PR and steem users are delayed for 2 days cos Valve sux 10/10 perfect MW3 yeah!
Cuntinuity – to consistently be a cunt. As in, “That guy broke cuntinuity and was nice to me for once”.
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Shadow of Memories (AKA Shadow of Destiny) is an old game. It was released in 2001 on the PlayStation 2, and ported to the PC a year later. Back in the day, I’d played through it with my (ex-)girlfriend watching the whole thing. We spent two weeks playing it over and over again, relishing in [...]
I’ll stop doing footy-related jokes about games with multiple numbered titles when games companies stop making them (although Rainbow 6 is the name of the outfit in the game, not a sequel number, but hey, it’s my blog, fuck it). The first Rainbow 6 Vegas was, well, I suppose the word is “average”. It did [...]
A list of things that aren’t especially good in World of Warcraft, in no particular order: Murlocs. They’re the biggest cheap trick in the game – they look cute, they sound silly, but they’re fucking lethal. Murlocs are always in large, tight groups, so you have trouble pulling just one. When you’ve got them down [...]
No doubt this will be one of many posts about World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft. It’s a fucker. It’s the elephant in the boardroom of any other MMOG publisher. It’s the blatant exception to the “PC gaming is dying” argument (and possibly to the Mac gaming one too). It’s the game that gamers love [...]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (to give it the correct title) is out next week. I loved the first Modern Warfare game. You can google it to get a billion blog posts about why it is so good, and they’ll all have better writing than I can muster. Loved it, but wasn’t in a [...]
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack rogues on fire off the shoulder of Warsong Gulch. I watched Frostbolts glitter in the dark near the Dark Portal. All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain… Time to die. Sprirt ressed! Gonna repair, brb.
It’s rare to be captivated by a modern game. Back when sprites were being generated on Spectrums and C64s and Amstrads, your initial engagement with a game would be one of reflex; press this button and it does that. Woohoo! Instant ocular gratification. You’d feel your way round for a few minutes, then get comfortable [...]
Been playing Dead Rising on the 360. Zombie game, set in a mall. Bowling balls, lawnmowers, skateboards, big foam lightsabers – all can be used as weapons. Should be right up my street. There’s a type of film which starts off slow. It’s boring for the first 30 mins or so. But you persevere, cos [...]
I bought Burnout Paradise the other day; for the Xbox and the 3, 6 and 0. I’d played it once or twice before – I’d been expecting the usual refinement and change of the Burnout series, but Paradise threw me for a loop. No Crash mode, no routes to learn, just a big city and [...]
Late last year, there was approximately fourteen billion really fucking good games released within a three month window (give or take a month). Usually, games companies wait until Xmas to sell their top properties as this is when Mums and Dads and other old people waddle into town to pick something up for Little Johnny [...]
Just read through the archives of a really old blog I used to have. Apparently, I was much funnier two years ago. Comments I made which are still funny – “Did someone dial a rapist?”, “My piss is Lucozade orange right now”, and my current fave, “some sheep racing show”. Out of context, they’re awesome [...]
Fallout 3 is good. Really good. Here comes the “but” – it’s got some daft shit in there. Create-a-character. You make up your character at the start of the game using a billion options on race, hairstyles, eye colour, all the usual. The daft thing about it is the very first option, where you can [...]
The destructible furniture. I miss being able to run into a room with my Xbox Livey pal and just go apeshit on chairs and desks using the “machine gun + chainsaw = weapon perfection” Lancer. I miss that specific room in Gears 1 where both players knew instinctively to hold the thumbstick just-so, whilst also [...]
Oh, and also – these rolling papers are amazing. Butterscotch is highly recommended!
Let’s say you’ve had an idea for a movie. Let’s say it’s good enough to get the Hollywood suits tossing themselves into a froth over it, and are shovelling spunkfuls of money at you to make it. Let’s say you sort out a crew and a cast and catering, and you get on set, and [...]