This time next week I will 28 years old. Shortly there after, I will have been married for the some total of 2 months. So I am getting older and being all growed up, and now have a wife to think about as well as myself. Like many people, I am searching for something though. Not happiness in love or anything as cheesy as that since I have already found it, but rather contentness in my job and ca...
Ok, let me be straight up from the off: this is about my reasons for gaming, what I like and don’t, and is generally more about me than anything else. I will ask the question of you at the end, but please, if your going to comment on my thoughts, at least be polite. Now, for most of my life I have been a geek. Its an honest assessment, and one anyone who knows me, or indeed, has read my previou...
"The second step that we can all agree on is to invest more in preventive care so that we can avoid illness and disease in the first place. That starts with each of us taking more responsibility for our health and the health of our children. It means quitting smoking, going in for that mammogram or colon cancer screening. It means going for a run or hitting the gym, and raising our children to...
So inevitably, a slew of lists of games that blew people away at E3 have started to come out. So I thought I would join the band wagon, since I am not above such things. I watched all three press conferences and I have to say that each one felt more like the companies were actually trying, and had some genuinely new stuff to bring to the table. Nintendo’s was a bit lacklustre, but lets face, th...
I was talking to a friend on line last night who is at University and He was writing an article on girls in the gaming industry. So I thought I would nick his idea and do one myself. Jade Raymond The simple fact is that gaming is a male thing. Most games are testosterone fueld frag fests and the ones that arent are generally geared towards men, such as fighting games and racing games. It is an...
So I went to see the film Crank: High Voltage at the weekend, and it was entertaining in a ridiculous, OTT kind of way, but it also had the interesting effect of making me think about games. The term ‘Popcorn movie’ is relatively new to the medium I believe, and is associated with movies like Crank , Transporter and Shoot em up , films that embrace the kind of stupidity that makes them one thin...
For the past few weeks I have been trying to quantify something in my mind, something that is a very large and complex subject, and was inspired by giantbomb's GDC coverage. This subject is the Philosophy of games, and I am struggling because I am unsure if such a thing even exists, or if I am over thinking things or what. The general idea is that 'You can do things with games that you cant do...
GTA IV was one of the greatest games of last year, indeed, of all time and gamers chomping at the bit for the continuing adventures of Niko Bellic will have to wait a little longer, as Rockstar have unleashed their first Xbox 360 exclusive download for the game, The Lost and Dammed. The Lost and Dammed centres on Johnny Klebbitz, a member of motorcycle gang The Lost, and opens as the chapter le...
A cursory glance down my submissions list/blog post history will reveal to you a few things, one is that I am not a very good writer; another is that I have a tendency to talk rubbish. It will also reveal a relativity long time between posts, and this is partly because I work full time and partly due to other factors. Now obviously I don't work for a games mag or site such as this one, and so h...
A step in the right direction Reading the blog posts on the soapbox, I discovered an interesting article by EarthThatWas. The article talks about the new wave of digital distribution and DLC that was brought about by the new generation of consoles. The article is very good, but what really peaked my interest was a comment by user KevinH1986. Kevin's comment related to the fact that physical med...
So I saw this morning this post on gamespot, so, thinking I was being funny and would get a funny response I emailed the link to my girlfriend. The following is transposed from the ensuing email conversation: ME: The DS officially has a lot to answer for… GF: the people that use gamespot are c*cks. So what if the game industry wants to appeal to different people. Its not all about fancy graphic...
*Disclaimer: I am not writing a full review on the reviews section as I didnt actually complete the single player mode. Here are my thoughts on the game, written as a review but I cannot review properly as I didnt finish it. Oozing Charm and likeability from every pore is no mean feat, but it is one that LittleBigPlanet achieves with great aplomb on first glance. Scratch beneath the surface how...
Well here is the prologue and chapter 1 of a story I have been writing for a while now, but have gone off with another story. But I thought i would share, since, well, why not? enjoy.
As any regular reader of my posts (think are a couple. I think.) can attest, I have lameted on the Wii several times and how it has changed the way games are played and indeed thought about by the general public, but there is one other thing I have yet to comment on: how it has changed how I look at myself. You see I dont consider myself a mega hardcore gamer, certainly I dont count frames in S...
The last two years have been a fantastic era in gaming, producing some of the greatest games ever made. Will 2009 be as good? who knows, however it is shaping up quite nicely, despite the absense of the big names such as GTA and MGS. So what am I waiting for in 2009? well there will probably be no surprises to anyone on the following list, but ya know, I am a slave to the big names! so we have:...
The last two years have been a fantastic era in gaming, producing some of the greatest games ever made. Will 2009 be as good? who knows, however it is shaping up quite nicely, despite the absense of the big names such as GTA and MGS. So what am I waiting for in 2009? well there will probably be no surprises to anyone on the following list, but ya know, I am a slave to the big names! so we have:...
Unfairly cheap, and with barely updated graphics, I didnt even finish it was that bad.
So everyone is doing top 5 or top 10, so I decided to do a top 6, just to be different, plus its an even number which sits well with slightly OCD personality. These are the games that this year, after finishing them, I have felt...satisfied. But not because of the gameplay (though that helps), it is mostly because of the story of each game. 2008 has been a fantastic year for gaming, as 2007 was...
The upcoming release of the Max Payne movie has sparked a new round of debate on wether or not games can translate well to movies and if its even worth the effort to make one. Well the simple answer is yes, it is worth it, as lot of those movies (including Max Payne) have done really well at the box office despite being critically maligned. I am no movie critic, but I have decided to post my vi...
Before I start this I would like to point out that I mayself used to work at a GAME in my local shopping centre, and I loved it. I am not trying to knock everything single person working at those type of stores, but rather the company policy to hiring, so with that in mind here we go! Last night I took Guitar Hero: World Tour back to the store. I played it for about an hour with my girlfriend a...
yes, and it was pretty boring, was waiting for GTA4 and was byself so was just a slow trudge down the line.
Life is a funny old thing. Especially if you actually sit down and think about your life, what it means, how you act and how others treat you. Doing this, however, is a double edged sword, cause its good to vent and think about yourself so you can get better, it can also drive you insane. I think I may be going insane. My name is Dan, I am 27, work as an IT Support Analyst and I am currently wr...
without a doubt, original and best, and has more acting skill in her right eyelash than McCarthy has in that great yet artificial body!
It has often been said, mostly by me, that, as a country, Britain sucks at sports. Lets be honest, its true, we do. Cricket is summed up by a BA add that states 'You invent a sport no one understands, and the whole world still whips you at it', the fact that we still go on about the 1966 world proves how bad we really at football (soccer for our american friends) and we always get knocked out o...
Although the title of this post sounds like some crazy indiana jones style action movie, its not, it is, in fact, a slightly depressing reality with a small ray of hope. The recently merged Activision has annouced today that they are publishing several games from the merger, which include prototype, spyro the dragon and crash bandicoot. This list strange dosent include Ghostbusters or Brutal Le...
Well so far giantbomb is proving a worthy home for Jeff and co, and I am hoping it will be for me as well. I am wanting to improve my review writing and editorial/blog posts, but no one ever seems to read and comment on them with constructive criticism. I hope that this new site with new people will help me with this, all I ask is a few comments on how I write if you have any thoughts on where...
Sat up in bed last night, I was watching a program which had a feature on a local MMA fighter. For those of you who dont know MMA stands for Mixed Martial Arts, if you have seen the film Never Back Down (if not, i recommend it) then its the fighting they do in that. As a concept, MMA is a brutal affair, and involves full force punches and kicks and various takedowns and alot of grappling, ultim...