With big gaming expos like E3, TGS and Gamescom taking up most of the attention of publishers, manufacturers and the press each year, it’s easy to sometimes forget those smaller expos held annually in countries around the world. One such event is the Finnish Gameworld, which at some point morphed into DigiExpo and this year into GameXpo. The format is familiar to anyone who’s been to or seen an...
Almost two months ago now, on the 29th of February, I jumped on an Allegro train in Helsinki and headed for St. Petersburg. This marked the start of my Trans-Eurasian adventure, which has now taken me through Russia, Malaysia and China to Vietnam, using purely vehicles on rails, tires and the odd boat or two. My intent is to eventually reach Singapore, which would mean that I’d then have travel...
I'm one of the crazies who went and bought the Forza Motorsport 6 Ultimate Edition , giving me access to the game more than a week before its official European release date. Since I've already been able to spend a handful of hours with the game, I thought that I'd jot down some of my earliest impressions for y'all. Day-to-naaaaaaaa, let's go away! Even with all its flaws, Forza Motorsport 5 was...
UPDATE: I've added some more impressions on Dead Rising 3, Contrast, Need for Speed: Rivals and Killer Instinct in the comments below. As the title would suggest, I finally got my hands on some hot next-gen iron at Digiexpo . Sure there was a lot of interesting stuff there like the new Nokia tablet, 4K televisions and so on but the main attraction was surely the lines of Xbox One and PlayStatio...
Now that the both players have shown their cards and we're only weeks away away from the release of the next generation of consoles and most of the immediate vitriol surrounding the announcements has died down, I thought it'd be a good time for me to attempt a summary of my thoughts on the upcoming machines. I'm most likely going to end up owning both the Xbox One and the PS4 at some point duri...
In the year 2000 videgame consoles were banned in China. Well banned officially anyway. Consoles have been sold quite openly on the gray markets of China ever since and a healthy dose of piracy has ensured that Chinese customers have had access to all the latest and greatest games which we all enjoy. In fact it is common for shops to sell consoles pre-hacked or offer a hacking service. On top o...
I get home from work and do my usual shower, sit on the computer for an hour and cook dinner routine. Before taking the first sip of a cold beer and diving into an ambitiously proportioned hot dog I check Twitter and Giant Bomb on the latest bullshit circling the web. Fifteen minutes later I hear the ping of a Steam message and get the news from a friend. At first I laugh it off and even after...
"Well that's a stupid name. Why would they call it the Xbox One if it's the third Xbox? That's going to confuse the hell out of people." These were my thoughts a couple of weeks ago when watching the unveiling of Microsoft's upcoming console. Now I know that complaining about the names of consoles is rather stupid and pointless in the endgame, but a name like this clearly has to have some sort...
I still have a lot of faith in my local guys at Remedy. I know people who work there and judging from their murmours it seems that whatever the final product will end up being Alan Wake will be something really special.