I’m rolling down the streets of San Vansterdam doing pop-shuvits and nosegrinding benches when I stumble across one of the larger skate parks in the area. It has numerous ramps, rails and even a loop-de-loo, the top of which is missing. However, what catches my eye isn’t any of that. It is a group of about 6 to 7 other players leaping off a nearby building rooftop and cavemaning into a ramp, ro...
Inspired by the recent Bombcast, where the crew did... the exact thing I'm doing now, I will be going through my favourite non-gaming-related things of 2023. This is to prove to the world that I am a well-rounded person and not a total freak who does nothing but play video games for the majority of the time. Now, these are not in order, so let's get started. Smeg Automatic Coffee Machine Do you...
It was the best year for video games; it was the worst year for video games. The year 2023 will be remembered with joyful glee or utter misery, depending on which side of the video game you are on. Game developers probably had the worst year I’ve ever seen. Studio closures, layoffs, excessive crunch, and that’s on top of the other bullshit they usually have to deal with. Conversely, video game...
This year has been a bit of a disappointing year. Between the Series X and PS5 still being challenging to find and multiple big games being delayed, 2022 seemed like the kind of the year that was kind of... meh? A few big games were released this year, but that’s it: only a few big games. In other years it’s banger after banger, but throughout most of the year, we did not see a lot of triple-A...
I’ve been attending university to become a teacher for quite a while now. I remember starting back in 2017 being completely overwhelmed and have been busting my butt since doing an enormous amount of theory. Lots of reports on child development, theorists, higher-level calculus and a never-ending demand for lesson plans. So many lesson plans. But five weeks ago, I got to do my very first practi...
Been a while since I've written a blog. Looking back at what I've previously written I can see have juvenile and bitter I was. Now I'm just bitter... Anyway I wanted to kill some time after work and have an outlet to express myself in a positive way about things I like instead of things I don't. So here is my 5 games I have the most anticipation for in the year 2015. 5. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong N...
The main argument I am hearing about changing the Mass Effect 3 ending is ‘ Bethesda did it for Fallout 3 and it worked’. Sure it’s trying to fix the problem of ‘It has a shitty ending’ but these are two entirely different situations, mainly the reason why it’s bad and how they fixed it. *Fallout 3 Spoilers* In Fallout 3 the main character has to enter a code to a machine which is inside a room...
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Seeing how I got Facebook at the beginning of the year I’m not exactly deep in the casual Facebook game scene. I’ve seen others playing games like Farmville but I never had an interest in it, so much that I have never tried it. That said I’m also not a big Civilization fan, to be honest the only experience I’ve had with Civ was the coverage on Giant Bomb and Civilization Revolution on iOS. Even...
Seems like this year there are many things with universal hate. Kinect , Nintendo and Duke Nukem Forever to only name a few. I’m not necessarily a person who likes to follow trends. I always give a game a chance to impress me despite what others say. This personality trait has lead me to purchase games like ‘Alone in the Dark’ and ‘Alpha Protocol’ and with this trait I have gone out and bought...
This is pretty much every game enthusiast worst nightmare. You have gotten your brand new slim Xbox. You want to get your profile off your old console onto your new console. You put the profile on your USB stick and delete the profile off your old one and place it on to your new profile. Your ready to play some Borderlands. Load it up and your character is missing. That's odd. You load up Halo:...
Have you actually looked at what Dead Rising represents? "Daddy, why are you wearing a dress with a football helmet on?" Looking at this game with shallow eyes you might just see what the game is at the barest level, crazy zombie game with funny ways to kill and murder people. But since finishing Dead Rising 2 I have been thinking what Dead Rising represents to the player, what is its purpose,...
Since my last blog I have had the fortunate pleasure of finally get myself a job. Ever since my job I have had this fever dream of buying games new and old. Since my dive into the workplace my collection of games have doubled in half a year. I am to a point in which the rack I keep my games are full and what games cannot fit on it just lay on the TV stand. Some of these games I haven't even pla...
My past just came back to me so hard and so fast with all this time off. It's kind of scary and awesome at the same time. Going though your past can bring up all these memories whether it's good or bad. In this case (or several cases) this has been very positive. Really, when your reminiscing about this media it is always has a positive result. You don't really remember the bad aspects of your...
I'm really picky when it comes to buying games and with the trend of demos getting rare and short I'd thought I go through all my experiences playing demos and finding out which demos was the worst marketing scheme. I'd also like to point out this list of the worst demos has nothing to do with the quality of the game but the quality of the demo containing it. Dead Space's 'Dismemberment' Demo....
I don't understand why Australian gamers get constantly abused by the gaming industry. In any other media like movies or music Australians get up to date releases (or within the week) and we rarely if ever get movies or music with no release, more so if that media is release online with such programs as iTunes. But with video games it's different. 'Convict Island' The video game culture in Aust...
I'm starting to get the hang of it. Giant Bomb's system is now easy to edit and add as you can see with my creation of my first concept, Games Based On Movies Based On Games. . If anyone comes near my work l swear l will kill you in horrific ways.
Finally after weeks of teasing Giant Bomb has blow-up with style as it launched today. I have to say I'm impressed, character pages, blogs, forums, it's all fantastic. I'm just dipping my feet in it all and this post is just to get a taste. More on that later.+