Ryan sent me this when CBSi Games staff were informed I was coming to the states for a while. Made me smile then, as it does now. As a distant fan, I feel privileged to have met him. He really was as hard edged and soft centred as you'd imagine. I have nothing but thanks for him, for being so kind and supportive to me over the years. I mourn the fact that I didn't get to know him well, but real...
Porn, communist toilets and booze - some deleted scenes from our frankly bizarre World of Tanks episode of EFMS from last year. Martin wasn't actually working at GameSpot when we shot this, but I'm pretty sure these two deleted scenes are what got him the job. Full episode here: http://www.gamespot.com/features/escape-from-mount-stupid-secret-russian-tank-adventure-6397048/ Apologies in advance.
I maded a video thing about working in retail and why used games are fucking great. What do you recon? Have you bought used games knowing that you'd trade them in again to buy more stuff?
I know ya'll will be watching the GB stream, but YOU CAN STILL PLAY!
Right now I'm sitting in a rented apartment in San Francisco. It's sunny outside, there's baseball on the TV and I'm on a laptop trying my best to sum up what fucked up set of events landed me here. I'm also reminding myself of how bad I am at creative writing. I arrived in San Francisco yesterday where I'm staying for about a month to work alongside the US video team in the run-up to E3. Back...
I've been chipping away on this video for about two months, and now I've spent the past 24 hours whoring it out to people. But it's worth it considering the subject matter. I've suffered from depression and OCD at various points throughout my life, and have often used games as a coping mechanism. When I played Depression Quest on a GameSpot livestream a few months ago, we got like, almost a hun...
Shit son I can feel it in my waters.
5 - Cheat codes for FIFA 13 4 - Theme Hospital 2 3 - Fable 4 Mountain Dew 2 - The cure for cancer 1 - Unreal Tournament 2013 What do you want in the cube?
[ I work for GameSpot - no I'm not evil - but yes I want all your money] Ladies, gentlemen, and duders, Playing video games for a day is the only way I know how to contribute to society and the lives of others. So on October 20th GameSpot will live-stream a 24 hour gaming marathon in support of gaming charity Extra Life. Extra Life is an annual event that raises funds for Children's Miracle Net...
[ I work for GameSpot - no I'm not evil - but yes I want all your money] Ladies, gentlemen, and duders, Playing video games for a day is the only way I know how to contribute to society and the lives of others. So on October 20th GameSpot will live-stream a 24 hour gaming marathon in support of gaming charity Extra Life. Extra Life is an annual event that raises funds for Children's Miracle Net...
I've nearly come to the end of the initial six-week run of my GameSpot show Secret Code. The show I decided to do after we wrapped the second season of Escape From Mount Stupid and I felt like talking about the reason I dumped a popular show to focus on games not many people know or care about. I've always had a massive love and respect for the independent games development scene. For one I use...
Yea....bloody hell. *pinches self* I'll be presenting some of the GameSpot live stage on Tue/Wed/Thurs. Might see my big Irish head on the the Giant Bomb late night show at some stage too. @dannyodwyer on Twitter if you fancy seeing pictures of dumbness as they happen. Updates coming soon, in the meantime here's a photo of jet lagged/drunk Seb Ford trying to close an ironing board.
Remember when I said I was working on an actual game? Yea that's still happening. So I guess it's time for an update! Apparently it's not difficult to start work on a game. There's no shortage of things that need doing be it programming, graphics concepts, gameplay brainstorming, figuring out the story and it's characters let alone all the legal and business stuff. I guess the difficult part is...
So I better get used to using my Giant Bomb blog - seems I'll be needing it. After four years of podcasting, writing, recording and publicizing, I'm stepping back from games journalism and oddly enough, into development. Lets me explain. I started Citizen Game a few years back in an effort to win favour with prospective employers, but after 4 years of hard graft I'm no closer to that dream than...
I've always wanted to make one of these mash-up videos, but I usually have to let it fall by the wayside as the day job and running CG takes over so much of my time. Last night I got itchy for editing so I through together this mash-up video of the Microsoft Press Conference in 130 seconds. Without doing a VO, it should sum up my impressions of the conference; the good and bad. Hope you're all...
EPISODE ONE: (or via YouTube or CitizenGame ) Features: Rising cost of DLC, Highstreet PC Gaming. Playtests: Fifa World Cup 2010, Super Street Fighter 4, Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess Interview: 'Hello Games' the developers behind upcoming PS3 Store game Joe Danger. and much more..... I've spent the past 3 years threatening to make a video game show of my own, and with the help of a few...
I'm really and truely addicted. This is why I'm posting this. How about you guys?
Microsoft Press Release (25th March 2010 ) " Available in stores today, Xbox 360 introduces the 250GB Hard Drive, which offers more space to store your favorite game and entertainment content. Available at the incredible value of $129.99, the 250GB Hard Drive offers more freedom to download the latest demos, Xbox LIVE Arcade games, full game titles with Games on Demand, TV shows, movies and mor...
Both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 have played host to several simulation racing games, often using them a poster boys to show off each console's graphical prowess. With the exception of 2008's Burnout Paradise, there has been little in the way of social arcade racing for owners of either console. In fact even races in Paradise City were gentlemanly affairs without a red shell or banana skin i...
Video Editorial: Loading Screen Evolution ! It's been a while since I whipped up a video-editorial, but I had some spare time this weekend to dust off the camera and capture random game footage. I figured I try to shoot a piece about the most boring part of gaming; Loading Screens. It was a sort of challange I guess, and I'm pretty happy with the results. More importantly, once you've watched t...
Worse than a dodgy Santa jumper, is the prospect of your mum getting adventurous in the local game shop. Among the least enjoyable moments of Christmas is the ceremonial opening gifts from friends and relatives you probably don’t call, let alone see, very often. Many try to minimize embarrassment by gifting unimaginative presents; ones that don’t require much knowledge of the receivers personal...
From www.citizengame.co.uk Myself and Denis spent all of today performing various activities for the show including recording footage, dubbing over video and buying lots and lots of meat products. The impatient fools that we are, we decided we needed to put something up today even if it wasn't from the actual show. So here I present to you the first annual Citizen Game Bowl; 4 quarters of arcad...
Yea so enough stalling for time, here's a look at one of the game-footage-heavy bits from Episode One of Citizen Game where I take a look at online gaming gem; Quake Live. Just something small for you guys to chew on while we keep working on the show. It's been tough trying to fit it into our already busy daily grinds, but we're looking forward to wrapping up soon. Check it out here: http://tin...
We're giving one away with each copy sold in HMV. Along with a much more forgetable t-shirt. Honestly I think it's the best free schwag I've ever seen. Street Fighter 4's special edition has to 1.5' low quality figurines for an extra €40 on the standard game price (€85 in total). These bad boys have removable weapons, arms with 4 seperate moveable parts (elbows can bend up and sideways like in...
http://twitter.com/dannyodwyer I've joined teh dark side. Follow me for chat, fun and maybe more ;) Also, Peggle coming to XBLA, EXTREME FEVER!
Earlier today myself and Denis got a tip-off of another Killzone 2 commercial that Sony had its film department (Sony Pictures) create for the release of Killzone 2. The following is what was sent to us, the full commercial, just shy of one minute containing some game footage and many of the games pre-release review quotes. Check out the stream below or download it here .
Hey look what I bought with moneys: Thanks to Christmas money presents from my lovely girlfriend, and lovely mother (women are lovely) I went and bought myself Playstation 3. What are my initial impressions you ask? In bullet-points you say!? > Little Big Planet is much fun. Girlfriend reacted with interest. Must by second controller. > Metal Gear Solid is 110% crazy. David Hayter on a chat sho...
I haven't slept in 2 days but I don't care because Democracy is ALIVE! Register on Citizen Game and Vote for your favourite games of 2008. Also this weeks podcast is up right over here but I must warn you Denis was also just coming off a nightshift when we recorded it so It dances over the line of acceptable content from minute to minute. Now I have to go play that Doritos Gamerpoints game. Hav...
For those of you who are interested, the staff roundup of our favourite games is available on Citizen Game right HERE . User voting will be opened on Friday, so be sure to register to get your in :) And last, that end of year roundupvideo is coming, thanks so much to everyone for their input on my previous blog. Sorry i havent been around much, im currently doing 11 hour night-shifts in work to...
I grew up playing a Commodore Amiga 600, so I didn't play Mario Bro's untill my mid-teens. As shocking as this must be to anybody who grew up in a Nintendo household, I did have an adequate replacement: The Great Giana Sisters. Great Giana Sisters DS in action The game so surrounded in infamy was a European developed rip-off of the first Mario game, with suspiciously similar textures, level des...
Gaming sites have been in conniptions ever since GiantBomb.com released information about the possible location and timeframe of Assassins Creed 2. The rumour speculates that Ubi's sequel will be intimately tied to the studios heritage, set in the eithteenth century during the French Revolution. It certainly falls in line with the historical importance and revolutionary ideals of the first game...
Last week staff from my website got to chat with Mike Fass producer and star of arguably the best & most popular online mini-series of all time: 'Street Fighter: The Later Years'. Mike took time out of his piledriving practise to answer Dale Cantwell's questions about the original series, what we can expect from the TV follow-up 'Street Fighter Reunion' and the game both projects spawned from....
Just Editing some of our Leipzig footage at the mo, and made this little snipit where myself and mates Dale & Denis talk about some of the games we played at the Sony booth including Killzone 2, the new PSP Resistance & Siren. Said id throw it up on here too while i wait for the HD version to encode on our own site :) Lemme know what u guys think :) - Danny PS: my site is located at the interne...
The line over which games can cross seems to be creeping back this way. Remember the good old days when you could shoot priests in the face with a semi-automatic gun silenced up the arse of a cat? Apparently the mass media and bored interest groups are making up for lost time as the cute PS3 action title "Fat Princess" has become the latest prey of the idiot hunt. For those of you not familiar...
Better put sumthing in here. How about a link to my site, that seems reasonable: www.citizengame.co.uk 37min video of our trip to Blizzard Invitational. How awesome? Quite awsome!