We asked one hundred people to name an odd noise that occurs inexplicably. You said "Tweet", or survey said... *brr brrrrrr*
It is becoming increasingly common for publishers to include a games soundtrack as a bonus in the collector’s or limited edition...
The magazine world is now going through a bit of a transition period, with the immediate future not looking too good.
You know the situation, you have some free time and so you decide to play a game. You turn on the console, choose the game to play (let’s say it’s a racing game), you load up the game, you sit through the loading screens, you start the race, everything so far has been going smoothly and then it happens… you get a case of the itchies.
Why oh why does…
As a child, my computers were mostly used as tools for exploration and advancement rather than gaming. Whilst I admit to nudging a barely discernible frog across a blocky highway to a blue highway (the river, apparently) with helpful brown rectangles and nasty green rectangles, most of my time was spent pushing the machine to its limits and to see exactly what could be done with a little bit of…
Sometimes it’s hard to be an Xbox owner. Giving all your love to just two genres. Yep, FPS games and hack and slashers. It’s an epidemic frankly and whilst we’re here mashing Xs and Ys or squeezing the right trigger, the PC gamers are loving it. They’ve got everything we’ve got and also proper FPS games, with mouse control and everything, RTS games that aren’t made of actual fail, Sim…
We’ve all done it. The temptation’s gotten the best of us. Our hearts are racing, minds on fire, praying you’re not caught, hoping no-one comes into the room, because if they do, you’re caught sweating, panting heavily, clutching the controller then turning away quickly and shouting “Don’t look!”. It’s too late. You’ve been caught with your pants down, hobbling poorly along on the Wii Fit you laughed at her for…
Growing up I was very much in the Nintendo camp. Sure, the likes of Sega tempted me and then later on Sony flaunted its undergarments in my direction with the birth of the Playstation, but Nintendo was always in my camp; we had that special bond between developer and gamer, they made games I liked and I pledged my full allegiance to the mighty N. Things started turning sour more…
