Some gamers could empty a swimming pool filled with cola in less than half an hour
There were no real surprises and no delicious lemons; it was just so massively meh-inducing.
The thirteen year history of a developing sequel
We all have one… that one particular game that will, no matter how old it gets, always pump our ‘nads. It’s either going to be a game that we remember from childhood as being the “most bestest game ever”, which undoubtedly turns out to be crap when you play it again as an adult (yes I mean YOU, Icicle Works on the Commodore Plus4) or a masterpiece which, as an…
How do you get Pikachu on a bus? Pokemon. Not exactly side splitting, but remarkably the only game related joke I can remember. While Hollywood has been cashing in with hilarious movies for decades, and the BBC sells more Comedy DVDs than any other genre, the world of games still struggles to make you smile, let alone belly laugh.
That’s not to say that games haven’t tried. Comedy is subjective…
With its pitch black backdrops adorned with neon bursts, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Blur was going to end up being Boom Boom Rocket with an accelerator pedal and dodgy Subaru spoilers… but it’s not. Although, on the face of it, Blur may appear to be nothing more than a typical shallow racer with a few clever gimmicks chucked in to throw you off the scent and, I have…
No I’m not going to be talking about Farmville, not mafia wars either. I’m talking a different sort of social gaming.
Something is changing with the way we play our games and the way we interact with our friends; games are getting social. The idea for this article came about while I was playing Blur last night – it’s rammed with a whole host of sociable features: Twitter, Facebook and…
See what I did there? No? Ah well, perhaps I should have used a pun based on music from this century. Anyways…
What do you think the biggest advance in modern gaming is? Motion control? Cell Processors? Super duper shiny graphics and stereo sounds? No. The clue was in the title – go on, have another look at it and see if you can work it out while I go…
