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~ Mild spoilers ~ To be clear, my expectations were low. The cast has been thoroughly ridiculed since it was first announced, and the trailer didn't inspire much hope; Nathan Drake, who is supposed to be 31 in the first Uncharted game and 40 years old by the last, is played by Tom Holland, a boy who will look 16 years old for the rest of his life. At one point in the film there's a "15 years ea...

As some of you may know, I'm trying to start a fresh save on my lifestyle by investing in some real workout classes and nutrition . You can read about the start of that adventure here, but I wanted to check in (with myself I guess) just so I have a log of how things are going a couple of months later. Well, I guess right off the bat the good news is that I've lost a bunch of weight. I've never...

I've always thought New Year's resolutions are pretty silly, but this year especially there's a much greater sense of urgency for change - a combination of the enthusiasm we collectively feel to distance ourselves from the last 12 months, with a desperate optimism that comes from knowing things need to get better. I currently live in Melbourne which, as of writing this blog, was home to the lon...

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As I'm sure many of you are aware Kotaku/Jason Schreier ran a pretty revealing and insightful piece into the shitty studio conditions over at Naughty Dog . For those of you that aren't up to speed, here's the highlights; - Naughty Dog encouraged rolling crunch for months at a time causing widespread burnout and depression among their developers “It’s an amazing creative environment,” said one d...

For a game that places so much emphasis on freedom of movement, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (I feel like that colon is in the wrong place but it's not and that's upsetting) has some pretty terrible platforming. Many times I found myself repeatedly plummeting to my death as a result of clipping through geometry, Cal stubbornly refusing to grab on to pipes and ledges that were clearly, often off...

I don't know why I'm so surprised, as familiar as I am with both the mobile games and F2P business model, that Mario Kart Tour is so grossly bloated with microtransactions and gatchapon style unlocks. For those that haven't played yet, the unlocks are sorted into Drivers Karts Gliders Each of which will give either a points multiplier or bonus items when used on certain tracks, so effectively;...

I got an email today that said: Which I guess is the latest in a long line of games that have ditched Steam to sell themselves on the Epic storefront. And people are really angry about it, apparently? A whole bunch of games are getting review-bombed because they were listed on steam and now they're not? Does anyone else think that getting upset over this is completely fucking bananas? Firstly E...

For a long time, Steam has reigned supreme when it comes to PC games; they had the best sales, the widest selection, the best support for independent developers and publishers. They seemed to be on the side of the players, finding meaningful ways to incorporate player-made assets and mods into their structure and rewarding their customers who made the biggest investments. Even games not install...

It's been a few months since I finished Red Dead 2 , a game I thoroughly enjoyed, and while hindsight has granted me the ability to acknowledge the game's flaws there's still several core aspects which I think are excellently designed and which I've been wanting to explore here in my blog. Top of the list is the difficulty curve. Spoilers ahead! By having the protagonist contract a deadly disea...

I recently found myself with a moderate amount of time to kill and having been swayed by the tales my girlfriend had shared from her time in Stardew Valley I wanted to jump back in myself. I'd played a little at launch on PC (Although hadn't even finished a single year of gameplay) and hadn't tried the game after any of the many updates, so I picked up a second copy on Switch and started from s...

I used to love Call Of Duty. When I was a kid it was the first real PC shooter that ever hooked me - I never played Halo, and before my parents bought a decent PC my FPS games had all been on the N64. So Goldeneye, basically. I never grew up close enough to anyone I knew to get involved in any LAN parties so Call Of Duty, when it was released in 2003, was the first time I had ever played a real...

Having escaped the clutches of both the Dota 2 and Hearthstone, two games which have collectively soaked up thousands of hours of my life, not to mention hundreds of dollars from my bank vault, the news that Valve was making a card game that seemed similar to Hearthstone but using the dota 2 characters and aesthetic was something that I was vaguely interested in but determined to ignore. A coup...

Be warned, there are brief Bioshock Infinite spoilers ahead. After discussing Bioshock Infinite with a friend, a game I haven't played since it was first released in 2013, I wanted to revisit some of the criticism that shrouded the game after it's launch and see how well they held up. Browsing through articles and reviews, I noticed that a lot of people seemed to have an issue with the characte...

I was cautiously optimistic about Sea Of Thieves. Having watched some reputable streamers play the beta (admittedly with the cynicism that Microsoft had paid for them to do so) it looked like a fun, albeit repetitive sandbox. The full game boasted a larger range of quests and incentives to play, and after a friend suggested I sign up for the two week Microsoft Game Pass Trial I was able to take...

While researching games to play on my flight home after visiting family over the 2017 holidays, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 caught my eye. Having spent enough time with both Mario and Zelda and needing an alternative, it seemed like the obvious choice. The metascore was decent, but I noticed a trend when actually reading the reviews; they were all, almost unanimously, a list of criticisms and compla...

Right from the start, the animation in this film is absolutely staggering. There's shots where a whole street of people are mingling together and the level of coordination for that shit is insane. I've spent years learning how to do that with a computer so the idea of a team of people doing it by hand blows my mind a little bit. I have to admit my appreciation for this film was heavily dependen...

This started out as a series of indignant tweets but I needed some room to really spread out. Alright, let's do this. Microtransactions are everywhere. Every fuckin' game has them these days. There's " free to play " and " not free to play but you can pay for optional cosmetics and then we'll release DLC free " or in some cases even " not free to play and we'll charge you for everything, all co...

Like everyone else, I've been pretty obsessed with Playerunknowns Battlegrounds over the past few months. It's the game that I never knew I even wanted. Every match feels fresh, and I can't remember feeling so hyped about being able to play any game for a long while. Which is weird, when you think about it, because Playerunknowns Battlegrounds is a buggy mess. The servers are inconsistent, freq...

There's something invigorating about being caught up in the zeitgeist of a videogame. Being able to compare notes and impressions, swapping stories and sharing discoveries, is part of why videogame communities like this one are such vibrant and interesting places. Being included in a sub-community of enthusiasts during a launch window is what drives people to pre-order and rework their whole li...

Since the release of the Destiny 2 trailer I've seen a lot of whining (yeah, you heard me) about the tone and direction Bungue seems to be aiming for; the emphasis on Cayde-6's goofy, loveable rogue personality seems an unimaginative and hackneyed solution to what has, until now, attempted to be a sincere and humourless universe. Considering the original story was such a bland experience, devoi...

Since the release of the Destiny 2 trailer I've seen a lot of whining (yeah, you heard me) about the tone and direction Bungue seems to be aiming for; the emphasis on Cayde-6's goofy, loveable rogue personality seems an unimaginative and hackneyed solution to what has, until now, attempted to be a sincere and humourless universe. Considering the original story was such a bland experience, devoi...

Night In The Woods has been on my wishlist for a long time. Ever since it's inception in fact, from the earliest tweets and announcements surrounding the project. I even followed the developers on twitter. I say followed, because after a while I had to unfollow them. Because they wouldn't shut the fuck up . I think that's a pretty perfect analogy for why I'm finding it so difficult to enjoy Nig...

"What are you doing, bud" I asked my TV. Trico. He was rolling around in a shallow pool of water, emitting bassy chirps of pleasure. I couldn't help but crack a smile. The goofy playfullness reminded me of my dogs back home, and as it had done dozens of times already, The Last Guardian instigated a sudden pang of homesickness. This is the exact moment I fell in love with this dumb goofball. "No...

Last week I wrote a blog about the campaign of Gears 4, specifically about it's storytelling (as oppose to it's mechanics) and you can read that over here , if you'd like. If you'd not like then that's also fine. You do you. Since then I've had a chance to spend some time with the multiplayer aspect of the game and, now that I'm nearing level 40, it's time to weigh in; Gears 4 multiplayer is pr...

Despite loudly complaining about how disinterested I was over the weekend I purchased the Ultimate Edition of Gears Of War 4 . I needed something to play and, after realising that my old Horde team was getting back together, punched in the numbers that let me buy things on the internet. No, I'm not going to tell you what they are. Gears Of War 4 is a tricky one. The writing is jarringly inconsi...

I'm finding it really difficult to give a fuck about Gears Of War 4. I should be the target market; I'm the guy who played the first three games extensively. I was, at one point, ranked in the top 500 players in the world at King Of The Hill in Gears 3. I very nearly S-Ranked Gears 2, completing the campaign multiple times on various difficulties. I even read all the books. Every time I mention...

Welcome to my 10,000th post on Giant Bomb, the website about videogames. It's been 2848 days (7 years 9 months and 17 days for those of you without calculators) since I made this account on Juy 21st, 2008. That's 384 blogs, 1025 images, and 12,200 PM's that I've sent and received. Filling in your mental timelines, I've been moderating this website for 5 years and 3 months, roughly 62% of my mem...

I've been playing The Last Of Us multiplayer pretty consistently since release, at first on PS3 and then transitioning over to my PS4, so I was pretty excited to take part in the Uncharted Open Beta this weekend. In previous Uncharted games the multiplayer was something I was happy to flirt with, though rarely felt focused or engaging enough to distract me for any meaningful length of time. I'v...

I'd been avoiding Firewatch, though I couldn't really figure out why. I'd followed the careers of the Campo Santo team individually for years (I'm sitting here wearing an old Threadless t-shirt designed by Olly Moss as I write this), so the culmination of their talents should have been something that I was naturally drawn to. But... I don't know. Something didn't feel right, and I wasn't entire...

When I first discovered The Name Of The Wind, back in the early days of 2011, it was everything I wanted from a novel. My knowledge of fantasy writing was limited almost exclusively to classics like Lord Of The Rings, or Dune, or Game Of Thrones. In fact the majority of my fantasy library was predominantly sci-fi, and I placed the high-fantasy genre in the same sub-folder as World Of Warcraft f...

EDIT : This blog is spoiler free. The third episode of Life Is Strange drops today (yesterday?) and I find myself uncharacteristically looking forward to it. The first two episodes filled the continuing void created by Kentucky Route Zero - There are chapters still being written, and I can't think of anything else I'd rather Cardboard Computer were doing, but at the same time come on already. I...

Last weekend I finished my second Grounded run on New Game + My 5th completion of The Last Of Us campaign and, probably, my fastest - clocking in at around 8 hours in total. Grounded, for those that don't know, is the most punishing difficulty available, released separately from the "Survivor" difficulty in the original game but thrown in with the Remastered edition for the PS4. Where survivor...

" I really love it when game journalists write about other game journalists " said nobody, ever. The last few months for videogame enthusiasts with any sense of online presence have been pretty rubbish. There's been a lot of vitriol, frustration and arrogance floating about online. As someone who's job involves cleaning up vitriol, frustration and arrogance, myself and the rest of mod team had...

I was bored and I made an animated Last Of Us screensaver. It's for windows only atm, and though I do have a sound version I have only released the silent one for now. You can download it over on my new tumblr blog: http://startscreens.tumblr.com/ The intention is to make a series of video game start screen screensavers. I'm planning on doing Mario 64 next. I like the idea of his horrific float...

The argument used to be that these (gestures vaguely at videogames) are games being made by predominantly men, being played by predominantly men. It's easier for both designers and players to relate to what they know, and in an industry that strives for empathy (Or should do, at the very least) picking white male protagonists is a numbers game. It's supposedly easier for men to empathise with m...

Diretide, the Halloween event of yester-year, has finally been announced in the recent Dota 2 blog by Valve. The collective internet tempter-tantrum has finally resulted in the upcoming re-release of the event, accompanied by a disgustingly apologetic letter from the Valve team. You can read the whole letter over here , but I'm just going to grab some quotes so you get the gist of it: First, wh...

Over the last few months I tried repeatedly to write about my travels in Asia, and repeatedly these plans were discarded. Whenever my pen touched the paper the words felt tired and stale, and I was unable to read my own work without feeling a deep disgust at my own literary mediocrity. It was an effort to begin and it was a trial to endure; why sit and write about my adventures when I could be...

I had to leave work so I wouldn't get angry when someone didn't understand why I was upset. I only met Ryan a few times, but I feel like I've known him half my life. From reading the comments, tributes and general support for Ryan's friends and family, I know a lot of you feel the same. "Fucking devastated" doesn't quite cover it. Reading through these responses, all these great memories being...

There are very few moments in my life where I have felt as raw, as emotionally scrambled, as when playing The Last Of Us. It's not perfect, or flawless, but it will forever hold intrinsic value as a book-end to this generation. When the eyes of the world are on the future, of technical demonstrations and hardware dick-swinging, Naughty Dog vindicates the argument, once again, that substance wil...

For the longest amount of time I was the owner of an Xbox 360, and that was all. In those days it was a console that defined me as a player of videogames. The PC, the PS3 - these came later. I saw Dead Rising running on a machine and I said " I do not care about how this happens but I need this in my life " and, 8 years later, I do not harbour regret. Dead Rising was batshit insane, but I had g...

It's 4:46pm BST, i'm still at work, and I'm wasted. I feel like I'm starting too many blogs with "I haven't blogged for a while" to the extent that the expectation for Sweep blogs has diminished. I'd like to begin a blog with a triumphant return but, in truth, I can't really be fucked. I have a twitter, I have a facebook, I have many outputs for the regular insanities that cloud my judgement. T...

Over the last few days there has been a lot of turbulence in the VFX industry. Those of you who watched the Oscars might have been aware of the protest taking place on the street outside, where almost 500 VFX artists had gathered to protest the conditions in which many VFX artists are expected to work. To add insult to injury, the film Life Of Pi won the academy award for best VFX while the stu...

I'm sitting at work listening to people around me chatter about the 8GB of DDR5 RAM that we can expect to sit snugly inside the PS4. We haven't heard much about the new Xbox, but I'm sure it will boast something comparable. I'm trying to get my head around how such a huge boost in the potential graphical prowess of our games will influence both the industry and game design as a whole. With the...

After watching the Kentucky Route Zero Quick Look, I went and bought Kentucky Route Zero. That seems an underwhelmingly methodical process, and I suppose it was. The only real hiccup was that the game isn't yet available on Steam. And that's actually the extent of the trouble: A single hiccup. I clicked their site, bought the game with paypal, downloaded and unzipped it, then set the exzecutabl...

I have been loving the Encyclopaedia Bombastica videos that Jeff is churning out at the moment so, as I'm too hungover to leave my house right now, I decided to throw together a Giant Bomb parody of the classic Encyclopaedia Britannica logo. I'm just going to leave it here, for you to look at with your eyes. EDIT: I didn't realise that @buzz_clik had not only thought up this idea but also visua...

Y'know what I miss? Causing trouble. Being a moderator is great, and I love working for one of the best websites on the internet, but at some point I stopped feeling comfortable about sharing my opinions regarding the site. It's understandable I guess, when you spend most of your time clearing up other people's arguments that you are increasingly hesitant to begin them yourself. Remember back i...

I shouldn't need to tell you how great Hotline Miami is. This blog post is not being written to inform, but rather to appreciate. Praise for the game seems unanimous in a way which I consider appropriate; Hotline Miami deserves both your time and money. It also deserves your house, your family, and your collective metaphysical and material wealth. But for now, your time and money will suffice....

Like everyone else on Twitter, I have been playing a fair amount of FTL lately. I'm really enjoying the game, the variety of each adventure and discussing the different strategies and builds online. Despite the somewhat randomness of your path, there seems to be enough room to wriggle your way out of even the most desperate situations, creating a satisfying balance between luck and skill. I hav...

I'm pretty stoked about Big Picture, Valve's new plan to move PC's into the living room. It's not something in which I will partake, having a pretty sweet PC setup in my room already, but I like the implications it has on the direction of videogames in general. Microsoft, Sony and even to some extent Nintendo have made it pretty clear at the numerous industry events like E3 that they are attemp...

You had to be there. Shouts to: @Hulk @Oni @MattBodega @Foil1212 @Virago @Rowr @crunchUK @Brad @Jensonb @Hamz @MB @Thordain @MaSuTa @CyanageN @JackiJinx @RandomHero @BoG @Ravey @SuperMooseman @Black_Rose @Carlos @Karmum @Lies even that dickhead @Vaxadrin - and of course a huge thankyou to @Disgaeamad for all these magical screenshots. There are so many people I can't even remember. Fuck... I'm...

Somebody wrote this about the GB mods, specifically me I guess, and stuck it on the forums. I'm kind of impressed that I managed to piss someone off that they went to all this effort! If this is the sort of person we are banning then I guess this is vindication that I'm doing something right . Anyway, enjoy: After the success of Journey to Modship: MB Edition, I promise a lot of you a Sweep Edi...

Sooooooo, I just got back from the Mr Brainwash exhibition in London. I wasn't planning on going because I knew it would just piss me off, but a bunch of people from work wanted to go so I sort of just tagged along. I left after about 20 minutes. I'm not going to lie, I was pretty angry. For those who don't know, Mr Brainwash [Real name: Thierry Guetta] was a cameraman who tricked a lot of graf...

I'm not sure I have used this blog title before. I'm fairly certain I have, but after writing 358 blogs on this site over the course of 4 years, I can never be sure. If so, apologies. Do not panic; You are not stuck in some infinite internet loop. Calm yourselves. Incidentally, this is not a blog about Beyond Good And Evil . Sorry :( The whole Paragon vs Renegade thing is something that I have...

They say that times they are a changin'. Seems like some times can't change fast enough. Others won't change at all. Don't worry about those. Just... keep it simple... YES Batman The Dark Knight Rises successfully managed to purvey a truly impressive sense of scale, which gave the film a fantastically epic quality. I walked out of the cinema exhausted. Wonderfully intense, if a little predictab...

Post E3 depression aside, I have enjoyed the last week. It was great to see videogames being made and talked about, and that's enough , for the moment. It was especially refreshing to see hype surrounding the games that made an effort to be experimental: While Halo and Call Of Duty were pushed out as respective show starters and stoppers at the Microsoft conference, it was games like The Last O...

" The Average Age Of Videogame Players " Is a statistic thrown around with such wild recklessness that it's significance as a credible argument in any given situation has dwindled. I last remember the number hovering somewhere about the 33 mark, though that was a while back and I expect these days the average videogamer is going through their mid-life crisis. It's easy to shuffle out that numbe...

It seems strange that relative to the utter hysteria of the past week my first blog upon my return from PAX East should regard a game that was not even present at the show. However, I can only play the cards I am dealt. Arriving home after a gruelling 7 hour flight, collapsing, then waking up only to begin drinking the copious amounts of duty free Vodka that I has purchased (with unprecedented...

I haven't blogged since January! Fucking January! No longer can you bathe in the abundant warmth of my melodic prose; these prolix acorns must be seeked out and gathered, harvested and stored for the inevitable mute months that follow. Fuck it, though; In my days here I have written enough to keep you going for a while. You shall not go hungry, little squirrels. Shit's been happening: Too much,...

There's something about the brutality of Dark Souls which I find masochistically endearing. Perhaps it's the disdain in which you are held by it's inhabitants, or the relentless unfairness of it's many enemies. Dark Souls fucks you up, and pointedly fails to apologise. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing. Just like in real life! The most underwhelming thing about a videogame can easily be...

In a desperate attempt to reignite my blog, I'm taking it retro. That's right, folks: It's time to keep it simple... YES The Last Of Us PS3 purchase vindicated . Skyrim Mods Thanks to Duncan Harris over at DeadEndThrills I have made my Skyrim look far better than it has any right being. I think at this point in time I have actually spent more time modding my copy of Skyrim than I have playing i...

I don't really know what kind of ceremony a 350th blog warrants. The only other members of the site to hit this digit are Bruce and Dalai , both of whom breezed past with such speed that they probably didn't even notice. 350 blogs. Fuck . That's one blog every 3 days for the entire duration of my time here on Giant Bomb. Since day one. During that time I have travelled all over the world, endur...

I've been cultivating this hangover for a while now. Everything seems to be happening at a great distance. My eyes are blurry, attempts to focus resulting in the sensation of screwdrivers being twisted into my retinas. When I move my head I can feel my brain sloshing against the inside of my skull. It is in this state, that I begin this blog: I found somewhere to live, in North London. It's a f...

A quick "I'm home for the weekend!" blog: I'm home for the weekend. The first week working in London has been kinda rocky, and not in a " Wooo, rock and roll! " kinda way, more of a " Fuck, these rocks are sharp and they are cutting my feet " kinda way. Work, huh? Yeah . I still haven't found a place to live yet, which is why I'm pretty absent from the site. Sorry about that. As soon as I get s...

Life has been moving pretty fast lately, both in the real world and in the land of videogames. Where do we begin....? EMPLOYMENT I got a job. Well, actually, I got two jobs. Specifically, I got a shit job, then I got a not shit second job, and so quit my first shitty job. Bleurgh. I just accepted a 3 month contract as a runner in a VFX film studio in London. As a recent graduate, getting a posi...

It's kind of weird to me that more people aren't getting actively hyped about Rock Of Ages . It's a glorified glorious tower defence game. You guys like Plants Vs Zombies , right? Well, Rock of Ages is kinda like that, except you control a huge rock with a face on it. Also you travel through time. There may or may not be battle cows. How can you not like that? ACE Team are a weird group of guys...

I was pretty upset hearing about the myriad of complications that plagued Project Zomboid . Conceptually, it's the game that I always wanted - a zombie survival game with emphasis on long term survival . Project Zomboid is in many ways a much better thought out and feasible simulation of zompocalyptic Darwinism than the obvious alternatives. I'm not saying Left 4 Dead would have been a better g...

There's something deeply satisfying about holding down the Q key and watching a mechanical blade slide out of your arm, to then disembowel whatever fool happened to be standing in front of you. Deus Ex HR is riddled with such satisfactions, and finding them for yourself is both engaging and rewarding. The pit into which DE:HR repeatedly falls is one of practicality; Namely, which is the fastest...

In 30 minutes (11pm GMT) we will be playing Gears of War 2 wingman on Xbox Live. It will be a private, intimate, invite only game for Giant Bomb people who like chainsawing each other in half. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED please send me a friend request: We have been running these events every night for the past few days and they are good clean fun. Well.... they are good fun, at least. If you want to...

A slur of Gears Of War 3 information got dumped onto the internet today as, with only one month until release, EPIC is beginning to slowly ramp up the hype. For me, that hype was maxxed out quite some time ago, so this new footage was fantastic to watch. I'm really pleased that the game is taking more time to flesh out the backstory of some of the characters. You can see the footage here: Howev...

Being a member of such a... vibrant online community such as this it's a given that the exposure we have to the inner working of the industry will be rather more enlightened than that of our casual, knuckle-dragging friends. We are "in the loop". In fact, we are so far "in the loop" that we have set up a small shelter, carved a set of rudimentary inner-loop tools out of loopish looking driftwoo...

No time for a full blog but a quick update: I clicked some link that was posted in this thread and it took me to the EA site. I input my password and BOOM, Battlefield 3 Alpha code. I wasn't even trying . Get hype. My account name on Origins is "sexualinfection" so add me if you want to murder some robot people. Thanks for reading Love Sweep

Alright, ALRIGHT , I'm writing a blog, shaddap already! Some shit has happened since I last blogged about videogames. I graduated from university for one thing. I spent the last couple of weeks slowly trying to transition my life back to some factor of normality, a mental progression that ran parallel to my rapidly decreasing funds. I then spent a week scrubbing around on Turntable.FM where my...

Sweep: So I was thinking Sweep: we should make a calendar. Sweep: A swimsuit calendar. Sweep: of all the Giant Bomb mods. Zombiepie: No Sweep: You can be June. Zombiepie: Fuck that Sweep: Alright, I'll be June. You can be August.

So Yesterday some of you may remember me posting this: I should probably explain. At the end of every academic year there's a huge summer festival-esque event at Bournemouth University where the Student Union sets up a load of tents full of live music and everybody dresses up in costumes and get's impressively drunk. The atmosphere is always fantastic, everyone has a great time, everyone looks...

Last Friday I graduated from university. I would have liked to play that off as something other than a big deal, but I am unable to do so. It is a big deal . For the first time in my life, I don't know what happens next. I'm not going to lie to you here... I'm pretty fucking terrified. The last week has been... well... it's been fast. I like to think there's a difference between drinking and ce...

Sweet dreams Love Sweep

There's a article over at the Escapist on an interview with Gabe Newell about the way that games are currently priced. Here's a quick quote: In a lengthy interview with Develop, Newell said: "The industry has this broken model, which is one price for everyone. That's actually a bug, and it's something that we want to solve through our philosophy of how we create entertainment products." Rather...

I know I usually write these blogs on a Friday, but I'm not feeling particularly patient. This Wednesday is unfortunately complicated, when really we should be keeping it simple... YES Bonobo Black Sands is pretty fucking fantastic and is probably responsible for salvaging my sanity over the past few weeks. Ambient Occlusion It's like the Guile theme; It goes with everything! Followers Yep, all...

Inbetween working off physical extremities and moderating you chimps on the forums, I have actually managed to salvage some time over the past few weeks to play some goddamn videogames . Let's talk about them! Participating in demo's or, as they are apparently now known, " Beta's " are opportunities which I relish and, since getting my PC a couple of years ago, have actively sought out. Being s...

Years ago a user named SuperMooseman wrote an adventure featuring many of the members of the Giant Bomb IRC channel. At the time the entire thing was written, and I want to make this clear, WITHOUT MY CONSENT, SUPPORT, OR KNOWLEDGE . It's worth checking out the original thread if you don't believe me, as the initial batch of responses were pretty hilarious. As a result of my non-involvement, I...

I'm experimenting with a new blog title. It looks sticky, so I might stick with it. So, Portal 2, huh? Does anyone else find it deeply ironic that Wheatley has a head like a fucking orange? Perhaps the greatest achievement of Portal 2 is it's cast. Wheatley, GLaDOS, Cave Johnson, even the sentry turret; Portal 2, and indeed Valve as a developer, exceed in crafting a world that extends far beyon...

Those that follow my blog will know that I'm a big Gears Of War fan. Usually that knowledge is accompanied by some form of bewilderment or confusion, which is understandable. I can't really explain why I love the Gears franchise so much. I play the games obsessively, I have read all the fiction (yeah, there are Gears of War books. They suck, for the record), I filled out a chunk of the Gears wi...

I know I said I wasn't going to be blogging much at the moment, but just because I'm on hiatus doesn't mean I can't keep things simple... YES Crazy Eve Online shenanigans . Turns out I enjoy reading about Eve Online a lot more than I enjoy actually playing it. Closed Beta Gears of War 3 beta begins in a matter of weeks . I returned my copy , but does anyone have a Bulletstorm disk I can borrow?...

EDIT: Deleted the previous 50 Ryans to stop my blog from exploding :D Oh wait , no it isn't.

Ok team, I should probably address the fact that I'm not blogging much at the moment. This isn't because I'm bored of blogging or because moderating the site is taking up all my time. I'm actually in the final couple of months of my degree, which means Deadlines and Exams, and then (potentially) Looking For A Job. This shit is important and I need to devote as much time to it as possible, as I'...

It's late. It's very late. You are tired, you need to sleep. You had a long day, a long week, even. You have shit to do tomorrow. You have shit you should have done today. So you start to stop. But just when you are about to call it a night, THAT SONG starts playing. THAT song. So you say to yourself " Alright ". And you go get yourself another beer.

Eurgh. (Hungover) So yesterday I finished and submitted my 10,000 word university dissertation (Hence the hangover) on " The implementation, successes and failures of "Boss" design and encounters in Videogames." Now, I don't know how high y'all can count, but 10,000 words.... that a lot of words. It would normally be enough to make me not want to talk about videogames for a long. Time . But my...

Don't have time to blog right now, so let's soundwave this bitch. Share.

Champions Online is a game that... well... It's kinda... yeah. Is there even any point in me telling you what kind of game it is? I'm sure by now you already know and if you don't you should go and find out. Because it's free . Yep, you have no excuse not to play it. Unfortunately you then have plenty of excuses to stop playing it. Being the broke chump that I am, I sauntered back into Millenni...

Where to begin? More importantly, where to end? University huh? So that's a bitch. Fortunately I love my degree, so it's not all bad. I'm actually working on a research project right now which I have chosen to title " The implementation, successes and failures of "Boss" design and encounters in Videogames ". Catchy, ain't it. Where to begin? Bosses are a natural convention for videogames, a med...

I don't know how we made it to Friday. I have lost and regained my faith in humanity on an almost daily basis. But let's not talk of such darkness. Let's keep it simple... YES Plasma Cutter Whilst I'm not sure I would recommend using one for open chest surgery, it is certainly versatile enough to dismember any manner of ugly space zombies. The Black Keys Specifically this , but their entire alb...

As blog titles go, I thought that one was pretty good. Well, most of you have probably seen the little red sticker under my name that let's people know that I am one of the two new Giant Bomb moderators . I'm both honoured and excited to be part of such a hard-working team and look forward to laying waste to whatever troll or spammer dares to venture out into the open. I always had a deep appre...

This was supposed to be a blog but I posted it in the forums by accident. Here is the actual blog: Previous Threads . The Offending Strip: The second strip in response to the initial controversy: The Blog where Mike (Gabe) removes the dickwolves shirts from the Penny Arcade store: " It’s true that we have decided to remove the Dickwolves shirt from the store. Some people are happy about this bu...

Thanks For Listening Love Sweep

This was originally typed in the Epic PM. It's being put here as well. It's 3:27am and i'm still in university, working. I can hear students getting back from whatever shit club they went to and they are drunkenly singing in the car park. I hate them more than I could ever possibly articulate. I am the only one here in this room, on the fourth floor of this office building, sitting at a compute...

It seems strange that I have simplified so few times over my tour here at Giantbomb. Only 29? Well, today I can't be fucked with the politics. So let's keep it simple. YES Summer Wars After watching this film based on the review over at Screened I fell instantly in lesbians with it. Such a beautiful film, so much fun to watch. 5 stars ain't enough. Boards Of Canada Sleepy music for sleepy peopl...

I have racked up a pretty respectable amount of WoW hours over the past few years but something that has always bothered me is the screen setup, especially towards the level cap, where there are a ridiculous amount of abilities to keep track of and skills that require ever-specific instances in which to use them. I actually stopped playing originally because I felt healing at endgame was too de...

TO BEGIN The gaps between my blogs have been growing recently. Sorry about that. Ah January, such a beautiful month. Full of hope, optimism, and a new student loan. I actually tried to quit drinking for this most precious of months, fearing that the onslaught of New Years Eve and the Mass of Christ (Coming soon on Xbox 360) would leave me a hollow specter of my former self. It stands to reason...

Oogway the Turtle: "The past is a history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present." Well, it's been a couple of weeks since my last blog so I should probably catch you lot up to speed. THE PAST I went to visit my parents for Christmas, leaving behind both PC and Xbox in a snap decision that I quickly came to regret. I spent about a week using my brother...

I'm trying really hard not to get too caught up in the Game Of The Year discussion again. I have a feeling nobody appreciates me spraying my opinion everywhere like a feral tom. There were a lot of good games this year. A lot. To say that one is better than the others is fairly redundant. Starcraft 2 is an excellent game. ( Opinion ! See, I told you that you wouldn't like it.) I spent weeks pla...

you want a drunk vblog you got a durnk blog you fuckers ima not going to not write a blog because you think its shit isnt eve real i dont know you and im goint o keep writing bwecause it's the only thing i cvan know with my life and you disagree with me thats o k because i am ok wit tthat you can say what you feel fuck you love sweep

Whilst we like to think that our understanding of this medium transcends that of the casual enthusiast, it's a vile accuracy of society that, whether we like it or not, the majority of people who play games like God Of War, SSX, even Mass Effect 3: These people are fucking morons. Or are they? For such people the Video Game Awards on Spike TV were undoubtedly a huge success. They probably enjoy...

I have that familiar pit of guilt at the bottom of my stomach. It's the cavernous, hollow sense of despair caused by my own lack of self control. I have a lot of work to do. So damn much . And yet I continue developing contemptible ideas which drive me further and further from my alleged goals, almost as though I am catering directly to my own procrastination. Only the other night End_Boss and...

I have some bad news. As many of you know, recently I have been battling with my addiction and hoping that I had the willpower to overcome what is essentially a socially crippling obsession. However I am ashamed to admit that, on Tuesday the 1st of November, in a moment of weakness... I renewed my World Of Warcraft subscription. Sad face. I can see you now, shaking your little heads in disappoi...

Songs of the day is a Bruce thing, but I wanted to share a song without writing a load of nonsense so... uh... here it is. Found it on one of the new Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit trailers. Sexy sexy: Thanks For Listening Love Sweep

It's like that level from Modern Warfare 2, except way more interesting. That's the only Pokerface joke i'm going to make in this blog. There, I got it out the way, now we can all get on with our lives. Poker Night At The Inventory is a game that needs to be seen to be believed, let alone to be enjoyed. It was with trepidation that I handed over my internet money, though not much trepidation an...

I used to keep it simple every Friday, without fail. This is a habit I would like to resurrect. Today isn't a Friday but, fuck it, i'm still going to keep it simple: YES Korea Truly they were as gods who built this place ! AK74U Fuck you and your Famas. Misfits Season 2 is crackin' on something fierce :D NO Respawning In Black Ops Surprise anal sex ! Ghandi So much for ahimsa ... Cataclysm A fr...

With a title as large and socially obtrusive as the latest iteration of Call Of Duty, it places the humble bloggers amongst us in an awkward position. Finding something relevant to say in the cluster-fuck of Black Ops related banter is an unpleasant task that must nevertheless be undertaken. Because, whether you like it or not, Black Ops is relevant. FUCK. So. Black Ops , huh? That happened. Mo...

I'm on the last level of " THE END " which, ironically, is anything but. I'm having to negotiate a veritable course of circular saw blades being chased by an enraged phoetus doctor. Yep, super meat boy is one hell of a game. Masocore is something which I occasionally inflict upon myself and Super Meat Boy fell at just the right moment. One cannot survive on a diet of cake alone, and it has been...

Fable 3 is, in many ways, a clear regression from much of what defined Fable 2. For reasons unbeknownst, gone are much of what made Fable 2 such an interesting and innovative game in the first place. As I am writing this I have Fable 3 running right next to me, left so that gold can accumulate. I have just seen a man kick my dog. Oh hell no. But the man kicked my dog because I put his rent up a...

It has been almost a month since my last blog. I think that's actually the longest I have ever gone without blogging since I started using the site on the day it launched back in 2008. This is my 300th blog, and I wanted to do something special. But after a while I realized that in trying to find the perfect 300th blog is a bit like trying to find the grail. I could keep searching forever and n...

Dead Rising 2 is a broken game. Perhaps not technically, but socially this game is completely out of touch. Despite my love for the original Dead Rising, I am not immune to it's flaws. Unnecessary frames of animation, a clunky and unresponsive inventory, a general insanity that demands the suspension of reality to justify lengthy boss encounters that, and this is the important part, nobody enjo...

This video got posted on Kotaku but it's a nice short with nice music and nice people. Nice. It's worth taking a look at if you have ever considered or would consider considering going to the Eurogamer Expo in London. Thanks For Watching Love Sweep

On Friday I arrived at Earls Court in London to attend the Eurogamer Expo. If you don't have any idea what that is, more information can be found here . I guess it's a bit like E3, except British and with only two E's. So... E2? An Introduction Anyway, this was my first time visiting any kind of videogame type event so I didn't really know what to expect. The expo started at 11 and I turned up...

I have played about 120 Starcraft matches in the last week of which I have won just over 50. That may not seem like a lot but, for me, that is a lot of time to spend with a single game. In the last few days I have spent my time either playing 2v2 with LlamaNL or watching live streams of Starcraft 2 tournaments from Korea and America. Yesterday we played almost 7 hours straight, finishing at abo...

I just finished moving all my shit back down to Bournemouth for my third and final year at university. That shit includes a full set of rockband instruments which I cannot play because I lost the power cable, a spiderman costume, 12 shot glasses, 43 T-shirts in various states of cleanliness, a Bill Bailey DVD, and a deck of cards which is missing both the 3 of diamonds and the 9 of hearts. Ah,...

When people usually find out that there are books based on the popular videogame franchise Gears Of War they say things like " Huh... that doesn't seem particularly suitable " except usually with slightly less eloquence: " LOL gears has shit storyline characters all suck this book must be shit ". Disappointingly I can confirm that, eloquent or not, they are correct in this assumption. The Gears...

I don't know what it is about Starcraft that I find so appealing. My usual dabbles with the RTS genre end tragically, mainly because I lack the ability to multitask to such an extreme that I am barely able to perambulate and pontificate simultaneously. However there's something clinical about Starcraft 2 which I rather like, perhaps the way in which the game has been reduced to such a binary sc...

I sometimes blog about music, too. Here's an example. Share the love. Keep it locked. Netsky released this badboy predominantly as a "Fuck you" after journalists leaked his album preview onto the interwebs. I fucking love this track, it's quality is the final nail driven into the coffin of everyone who stole this great album :D B-Complex get's kudos both for this stunning b-side to the epic (an...

Great Games That I Have Never Played A list by Sweep Nostalgia plays a huge role in the marketing and design choices of videogames. Every year will see dozens of new additions to franchises that bear almost no resemblance to their original counterparts. It is the opinion of many that to qualify as a "real" gamer, one must have been educated with the classics. However to expect every man to have...

It makes me sad that the bombcast will no longer be a shared experience throughout the userbase. That was perhaps the strength of this website and the gel which holds together what people loving refer to as "The community". I know these guys have got to make money, and to do so they should exploit what brings people to the site in the first place. After all, this site is built around the popula...

Recently I feel I have got back into the swing of writing. Sometimes I go through a phase where I feel obligated to blog and it becomes a chore. However if there is one thing I never feel obligated to do, it's keeping it simple... YES Gears Of War Book 3 The final chunk of the bridge between Gears 2 and 3, Anvil Gate is due to be released on September 16th. I have already placed my pre-order. D...

Blogging is hard. It's time consuming, exhausting, and often your work is met with complaints, sarcasm, and worst of all; dismissal. The hardest thing about blogging is finding something to contribute something to make the blog worth writing in the first place. The way I see it, there are two kinds of blogs. There are those that reflect the opinions and ideas of an individual who is content to...

I'm in that weird limbo between taking an exam and waiting for the consequential set of very important results. There's nothing I can do now but sit and quietly panic about the fact that I could have potentially fucked up. There is no longer anything I can do about it. That's unhealthy. That's got to be unhealthy. Right? I'm trying to keep myself busy with my existing videogames, seeing as I ca...

There are lots of great features on giantbomb. There are lots of useful features that, for some reason or another, a new user might not be aware of. For those of you who use the site frequently, there will no doubt be features here that you had forgotten existed. Sometimes new features get added without any real announcements being made as to their arrival. In making this list I surprised mysel...

The walking dead finally got an official trailer and a date for the first episode: Halloween. Why should you be excited about this? Because The Walking Dead is a completely awesome graphic novel, the continuing zombie apocalypse story that isn't afraid of being absolutely ruthless with it's supporting cast. The trailer looks to be sticking pretty close to the source material so you will need to...

Over the past week Shhh! I have discovered that, apparently, I'm not very good at stealth games. I played about 3 hours of Metal Gear Solid 4 (not knowing how long the game is I can't really pass judgement on what I have seen. For all I know i'm just getting started.) and about 5 hours of Splinter Cell Conviction . Both encourage stealth, though each is forgiving enough to humour my thunderous...

My housemate showed me Minecraft the other day. I watched some gameplay on youtube, then experimented myself with the web-based version. The most striking thing about Minecraft is both it's similarity and inferiority to LOVE , the MMO made by a man called Eskil Steenberg . The key factors to the success of Minecraft seem to be it's adaptability and it's accessibility. Namely: It's free (the Cla...

I'm currently revising for a maths exam. It's depressing having to learn for the third time the nonsense I should have acquired the first. At the moment everything is complicated. I should have just kept things simple... YES Team Fortress 2 It's still getting updated and patched, each new iteration lavishing it's thriving playerbase with weaponry, bug fixes and (most importantly) new hats! Limb...

There is a new Guild Wars 2 trailer out. Guild Wars 2 has got me pretty excited. Their analysis of their own brand seems brutally cynical, and their ability to not only explain the problems with the MMO genre in general but to suggest constructive solutions is something that I admire. In their 5 minute trailer the most intriguing aspect of their advertisement is the members of ArenaNet standing...

I think now i am drunk enough to understand the fucking insanity that is Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. If that shit had S ranks I would be all up inside of it. Indeed. kthxbai Lov e Sweep

I was slightly at odds to the survival of Clayton Carmine until I saw this screenshot. Lets just take a quick zoom upon the right bicep, shall we? Dude has a sweet tattoo. Clayton must live. Also note how fucking stacked this dude is? Also he looks slightly more battle hardened that his two brothers. Would be a nice dynamic if he blamed Marcus for the death of his siblings, could lead to some i...

I was reading the E3 edition of EDGE magazine and there is a criminally short article on Journey , the upcoming game by thatgamecompany for Playstation Network, creators of Flower and flOw. There is an interview there with the co-founder and games designer Jenova Chen . I have blogged before about the work ethic of thatgamecompany and I think the are a fucking stupendous developer. Each intervi...

It's been fucking ages since I kept things simple , and even longer since I did so officially . Things are about to change. Simplicity is the future! You know the drill. Let's keep things simple. YES The Walking Dead Fuck yeah, I love shaky-cam action . So fucking excited for this TV series. Clayton Carmine I still can't decide if I want him to live or die in Gears 3 . I guess it depends on wha...

sometimes I worry about the state of commercial videogames. We are currently positioned upon an ongoing escalation of graphical prowess, huge budget productions which become increasingly flamboyant with each iteration. Halo, Starcraft, Call Of Duty, Uncharted, Grand Theft Auto, Gears Of War - great games, no doubt, but all victims of their own success. You end up like the Modern Warfare games w...

I'm back home. Back to the world of mentally crippling social networks, commitments and protocols. I only got back from Thailand yesterday and I already miss it. I travel a fair amount, and this was my second trip to Thailand. 3 Years ago I hopped from Bangkok to Chang Mai, in the north, then to Koh Samui, one of the larger more commercial islands in the south. This time we opted to skip the fo...

As of tomorrow I shall be on a plane to Thailand. I'm looking forward to it. I got some pretty disappointing exam results which I have to resit in a couple of months and, well, I think a break from computers, videogames, university and, lets face it, England - is exactly what I need. So i'm not going to be around for the next couple of weeks, at least. I'm not going to be on Xbox Live, Steam, S...

Occasionally I feel a little guilt for not blogging as often as I should. But, if there is one thing I have learned it's that you can't force it. If you have something to say, and you are enthusiastic enough to write it down, then it will be absorbed appropriately via virtual osmosis. Pushing out content to fill a widening void is not recommended, unless you are playing Transformice . I finishe...

So I was reading Penny Arcade today The blog, not just the webcomic -___- and there was in interesting paragraph at the bottom. " I think I've been completely rewired (that is to say, ruined) by Massively Multiplayer games. I want to convert my time into something lasting: enhanced capabilities, more options. When I'm done, I want to have more than I started with - more of something" Yes. I'm c...

I was pretty stoked for Read Dead Redemption. The setting had been pitched perfectly, and I was suitably enthusiastic for another Rockstar action game that successfully balanced combat and character design. Red Dead quenches my thirst for engrossing narrative. It is, glitches aside, a pleasure to explore. For some reason however, somewhere along the line, Red Dead Redemption became a grind to p...

We heard you loke to goat so we put goatscheese in yor goat so you can go. Hypnoties - ties that hypno Penis nose. Fuck that bitch zoe she can pick this glass off the floor Ready kids? This paddling pool is full of broken glass. YEEEAAAYH Thanks for nothing Love Sweep

Kinect is something towards which I have developed a certain ambivalence. The argument for this is that the product has not been designed for me, me being someone who plays Call Of Duty, Dead Rising and, lately, Eve Online. I sympathise that microsoft needs to spark new interest, broaden their playerbase and gently massage an ethos of comfort into their mysterious, capitalist shareholders. I al...

I don't know why but whilst watching one of the many giantbomb E3 videos I just got this urge to... you know... make a gif. Hypnotic, isn't it? Love Sweep

Not only am I going to steal the layout of Bruce 's ridiculously numerous and awesome music blogs, but i'm going to be completely shameless in my lack of an explanation as to why these sounds are worthy of your ears. This song is called Gameboy Tune by Thomas Dvorak. Songs like this make me want to create a podcast. We all know how that ends. It ends as it begins: Like an orange. With segments...

In light of recent hostility: Giantbomb is a site built around personalities. Jeff, Ryan, Brad, Vinny, even the ambient chatter of Drew and Snide in the background. Then you have the users, a multitude of abstract internet memes and bombcast references. Giantbomb is a family and just by reading this you are part of it, even if you are the stupid ginger step-child that nobody likes. ^^^ This is...

I haven't played a single video game for 2 weeks. For the sake of my exams, my sanity, and just generally re-adjustment of my priorities, I felt it was perhaps time to take a break. No Xbox, No PC, no DS. I even avoided playing Drop7 on my iPod touch. For someone with an addiction as severe as mine, I think I handled the withdrawal symptoms pretty well. I missed playing Red Dead Redemption . My...

I was chatting with a friend about the giantbomb staff and what kind of personalities they have - and we tried matching them up to pokemon that we felt best reflected their personalities. I then went over to Bulbapedia and borrowed the descriptions of those pokemon and applied them to the staff. Please note nothing malicious is being implied here by any apparent comparisons. It was just a fun e...

I just watched this video. It's a clip from an early episode of Pokemon season 01 and it's too fucking awesome. The best part of this video is perhaps the explanation, the great lengths that the writer went to when describing his clip. It is, for all intensive purposes, fucking magical: LotsOfNine — 01 May 2009 — Caterpie is like sorta freakin' out or some shit because he has been free all his...

The giantbomb community is so narcissistic it's unbelievable. We are obsessed with discussing ourselves whether it be other users, staff or just the general atmosphere on the site. You are part of the problem. Whatever today's ridiculous " forum drama " is, it's fucking stupid. Go play some videogames. Go for a walk. Go down the gym. Go get drunk. Get some perspective. But fucks sake, take your...

Red Dead Redemption is in many ways a therapeutic release. The Game Is Solid That review might be blunt but it does contain everything you need to know. The ability for us to take advantage of technical consistency is rare, and should be leapt upon. What makes Rockstar such a great developer is their understanding of character design and their implementation of moral cause and effect. The profi...

It sometimes seems by addressing the madness of others we only legitimize it, our acknowledgement allowing it to exist. That being said, some sanity must be applied to balance every equation lest it spiral pervertedly out of control. It is not a job I relish, though I do take satisfaction in swinging the flaming axe of reason. I don't know why it needs to be an axe, but an axe seems pretty fuck...

The Humble Indie Bundle You probably have all been made aware of this stupidly cheap bundle of Indie games and it's hippy "Pay what you want" attitude. Someone at Kotaku wrote an interesting article about the purpose of the bundles conception: The idea being that blocking piracy does not automatically necessitate a consequential sale. If I want to play World Of Goo and I can't afford it my opti...

My name is Sweep and this is my blog. There are many like it but this one is mine . I use this space to write about my video games and my addiction to them. I hope, somehow, my personality does not appear as two-dimensional as the games I choose to discus. Music is important. It always has been to me, at least. So i'm going to dedicate this blog to some tunes that I have been listening to, now...

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Momentum is a concept that must be encouraged Especially when it comes to blogging . Remain committed and dividends shall be repaid tenfold. Super Street Fighter 4 arrives tomorrow Amazon permitting. The spectrum in which Street Fighting ability lies is vast and within it there is a place which I may occupy for the next few weeks. I predict, with a painful familiarity, that my place lies somewh...

It's one of those days. I'm rushing about trying to get as much shit done as possible and somehow it's just not coming together. Still... gotta keep rollin'. There's a lot of blog spam circulating the site at the moment. Posting a blog as part of a quest may have seemed like a good idea at the time but the result is that the entire blogosphere gets completely clogged (* meaningful glance at Sni...

Sleep Is Death sounds morose as fuck. It's an Indie adventure game which is designed to be played with 2 people. Think dungeons and dragons except you make everything up in realtime. The premise is that each player is given 30 seconds to react to the actions of the previous player. Because there is no AI and no NPC's every action, object and line of dialogue is completely contextualised by thos...

I recently found a 10 vs 10 multiplayer server and have been having so much fun that I decided to make a video demonstrating how awesome it is. Anyone who hasn't played L4D2 for a while needs to hop back in because, let me tell you, this shit is magical! Please note my badass zombie survival skills at about 2:00 Thanks For Watching Love Sweep

Well, technically it's 252 but we all know you chumps can't count anyway. I was planning on doing something special for blog 250, but seeing as I missed it I guess I ought to keep it simple for a change... YES Stubbs The Zombie "That was my favourite arm!" The Hunter I no longer opt for direct assault. Leap around them, flitting in and out of sight. Watch the survivors flinch after each ear-ren...

I appreciate that the Endurance Run is something which, conceptually, is designed to be endured . It's supposed to be difficult. It's a challenge and a commitment as much to watch as it must be to play. Especially when that game is, by all accounts, fucking shit bananas . I'm impressed and pleased by the decision to begin a new series of the Endurance Run. Watching the giantbomb staff goofing a...

I went to art college several years ago, in London. Having lived away from home for the majority of my teenage life I found the transition from school to college pretty smooth. Art college, like any other school, suffers from the first day trials of people making first impressions and trying to reinvent themselves into the person they always wished they could be. Considering this was art colleg...

I'm trying something new. It's like a blog except it's happening RIGHT NOW!! There isn't much point in me writing anything else as your minds have now inevitably been blown by this concept. Here's a video of me playing LOVE. Enjoy! I appreciate it looks blurry as fuck, but that's the design of the game. All the textures move. That's how love rolls. EDIT: Apparently the screen capture shit i'm u...

So quests, huh? I never thought I could become so madly addicted to meaningless internet numbers, but here I am at level 14 and hot damn i'm feeling pretty fucking good about it. The clues may be a little vauge and there are some answers which are perhaps a little too specific (How is skeleton Warrior not a cliche RPG enemy?) but the harder the quests are the more smug I feel once I have inevit...

So I bought borderlands Completely contradicting my entire previous blog. Oh well. You read it already. You can't unread it, try though you might. Borderlands is a game that seems slightly overwhelmed by itself. It works as an adventure game, with good characters and a simple yet solid plot. It works as a shooter, with nice animations of heads exploding and an assortment of exotic weaponry. It...

Blogging is hard. I usually manage to get across the general gist of what i'm trying to say, though perhaps not as eloquently as I had originally intended. To do so would require time for reflection, but with a community that moves so fucking fast by the time I am finished reflecting on a blog my attention has been distracted by someth- oooh look, A bird! *ahem* Sometimes I honestly cannot expl...

Bad Company 2 is a game which can only really be reviewed over a period of time. The multiplayer component evolves around the progressive understanding of it's playerbase. The more time you spend in the lush wastelands of BC2's dazzling warfare, the more endearing the game becomes. The tantalising weapon unlocks are fairly shortlived, most can be attained within a reasonable period of time. The...

In the glorious words of our hero, the legend, Sean Coonce: if you want a new feature, etc...... can't promise it'll get done - but it its a good idea I can guarantee that it'll go up on the board. I'm going to make a constructive suggestion. OK so when i'm watching one of the awesome Giantbomb videos, eventually that video is going to be end and I can go back to vaporising ants with a magnifyi...

It's been a slow fucking week for me at least. I have been set assignments as part of my university course which require me to write laboriously trying essays and, having just spent 4 hours writing about the Credibility Of Computer Animation as an Art Form, i'm hesistant to begin writing a wall of text on my blog. My trigger fingers are tired, though that doesn't mean they aren't itching. I hav...

It has been a long week. I have done a lot of work. I can't be fucked to write a proper blog. Let's keep it simple... YES GDC YEAH! News!! Insane Street Fighter 4 Characters Haken is a giant red greasy guy covered in small girls? Ok, sure... Rich Gallup I MISSED YOU SO MUCH RICH, PLEASE STAY WITH US!! NO Fanboys writing wiki pages "Motion Fighters is an admittedly decent looking fighting game.....

THE BEEF A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog about Splinter Cell Conviction. Of the comments I received the most poignant was perhaps: Emilio said: "I hate every fucking game on the Xbox360 and PS3 whipping out their dick, pretending that they're some fucking shitty Hollywood movie." Whilst many will leap to disagree, I kind of see what he means - though I wouldn't limit the dick-whipping to o...

So Heavy Rain , huh? That game looks, if nothing else, like it was designed to be revolutionary. It's a title that begs to be discussed and, for that very reason, i'm not going to talk about it . Take that, society! Naw, i'm just kidding. There seems to be a train of thought that if a game utilizes a new approach to age-old problems it's quality transcends that of traditional gaming. Vinny aske...

Sometimes it's fun to make things complicated. Sometimes it's good to keep things simple... YES Level 80 Apparently I can now... you know... "start playing the game". What was I doing before level 80? Pancakes Too good to be true! LOST It's nearly finished! GIVE ME ANSWERS! NO Technical Difficulties My computer sometimes just decides to turn itself off. Awesome. Food Poisoning I fucking knew th...

when done right, marketing can be a formidable weapon. Seldom when playing a game do I get truly overwhelmed with the adrenaline rush that so many promise and so few deliver. Making a player empathise with the events that lay before them on screen is a complicated and tactile affair. Too often I find myself a mere tourist in games that, although brilliant, fail to fully communicate the gravity...

Bioshock 2 is something I am very stubbornly refusing to play. Having talked to assorted sources who have spent time playing the game, most confirm my fears; Bioshock 2 doesn't validate itself as a product. It may be flawless technically, and may have events which are fun to play - but the most pressing factor is it's detriment to the original. When I first stepped into Rapture, my mind was exp...

Insanity on Mass Effect 2 is a form of punishment which one can only inflict upon themselves. Once the player is in possession of the knowledge of how the game works, how the story progresses, the events which take place; there is no pressure to find out what happens next in a narrative sense. I know what happens next. More punishment. But fuck , I still can't stop playing it. I'm playing Machi...

A wise man told be to stick to blogging about Videogames and Alcohol. How hard can it be? Sweeps series of misleading blog titles is set to continue this week: By " falling" I meant... you know... Gravity. VVVVVV is a game that, one would have thought, lacks the capacity to truly induce the hypnotic state that keeps you awake until 3am. It's a game that has no disillusionment with it's punishme...

I started this blog about 6 times already, I don't really know what to write now. My blogs have caused a lot of arguments over the last few days. A lot of people I respect have told me to shut the fuck up. That's not a nice feeling, especially when you don't believe you deserve it. Fuck you guys. I calls 'em like I see's 'em. I'm a whale biologist. I'm done with all that community shit for now....

Whilst I approve of the recent updates made to giantbomb, one aspect in particular seems slightly confusing to me; the integration of Facebook with Giantbomb. For me Giantbomb is a place I come to talk about videogames because I feel that, putting it frankly, my friends in the real world don't really give a fuck. Or maybe they do, but perhaps not to such an intense level. I use Giantbomb as a p...

I have used giantbomb a long time (since launch), so I think I have earned the right to speak up about what I feel are the problems with giantbomb. Also to suggest ways of fixing them. Here are some of my biggest giantbomb beefs: COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT The community lacks direction and composure. There are hundreds of great writers, reviewers, active members, who's contributions to the site go un...

Easy. Medium. Hard. The eternal dilemma. By default I tend to opt for Medium , a deep-seeded ethical shame preventing me from picking the Easy option. For most games this difficulty corresponds to attributes such as health, firepower and currency - each of which is dropped to increase the game's difficulty. For some games the Medium works perfectly well, providing a healthy balance of challenge...

Compare the Market. Compare the Meerkat. Simples: YES "How To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse" This book is full of practical information, taking into account as many potential apocalyptic survival scenarios as possible. They even have a chapter on "How to Euthanise Friends And Family". Handy... Shale Take that, chicken! VVVVVV I can get up to the top, it's getting back down that is the problem.....

Calm down children, this is in-fact a blog about VVVVVV . SEE WHAT I DID THERE? You poor hapless fools... So I am playing VVVVVV at the moment and it's really awesome. If the Nintendo Wii proved anything it's that great game design transcends the boundaries of graphical limitations. VVVVVV takes this concept to it's extreme. It has a quirky sadistic humour in the flat-out punishment which it le...

As the days crunch by i'm slowly stabbing, shooting and grinding my way through the ridiculous list of Steam games I acquired in the nether that was 2009. Left 4 Dead 2 was one of my most highly anticipated games of 2009, but having drilled the fuck out of the demo I experienced an unexpected fatigue. My trigger finger stopped itching. Once the game was mine I completed the 5 campaigns and then...

This film made me laugh more than I have laughed for a long fuckin' time. You should go watch it. Love Sweep

I recently started playing Dragon Age . By recently I mean yesterday, so i'm only about 10 hours into the game or so. I'm slightly at a loss for how to describe my experience so far. The voice acting is, as predicted, gratingly annoying. It may be a personal beef, but it's been pissing me off so much it's influencing my playing decisions. Party members are not chosen by the skills they can cont...

I'm a simple man, with simple pleasures. I plan on keeping it that way. Here's a Blog: YES Steam Sales Giving money to people has never been so easy. It's almost like they planned it like that... Arcade Sticks Street Fighter 4 is back on top of the stack. I'm addicted, all over again. One day I shall own you, Tanuki. Sleeping Bags I'm never going to take it off. Inglorious Basterds Everyone in...

There's a bit of a trend amongst videogames When tasked with designing an enemy that is supposed to inspire fear, designers seem to be completely overcome with a lack of imagination. The surefire result is a monster with big teeth and more spikes than a hedgehog. In the year 2009, or indeed 2010, we have reached a position where the media/the internet exposes us daily to the horrors mankind is...

Hai team, hope you are all having a great eye-of-the-storm between Christmas and New Years. Mine so far has been pretty decent, with the exception of the mandatory Christmas family argument which hung over the entire affair like a rank hat. NEVERTHELESS, loot has been dropped by the festive mobs! Here's some shit that I got given under the pretence of religion: A New Sleeping Bag Before your mi...

Here's a thread for people to congregate and spread the festive love! HAPPY CHRISTMAS, GIANTBOMB :D Feel the love. Feel it deep . Have a sick one Love Sweep

Here's some of my favorite games from 2009. Enjoy. 1. Street Fighter IV GAME OF THE YEAR For reintroducing fighting games to a whole new generation of gamers, whilst at the same time flaunting a beautiful aesthetic, Street Fighter 4 deserves universal recognition as one of the best games of this decade, let alone year. The character's have been stunningly re-rendered to give fans the nostalgia...

Many years ago Call Of Duty 1 ignited a strange appreciation for Artificial Intelligence in computer games that I search for continually. I remember crouching in the trench while Sgt. Moody dashed through enemy fire to save a wounded soldier. If you don't give adequate covering fire, he collapses. The mission is far from failed, but goddamn I did not want that man to fall. After battling our wa...

Having fallen at a ridiculously early hurdle, The Secret Of Monkey Island continues to baffle me. The past is a dangerous place, and the complexities of it's entertainments are perhaps beyond those currently with the means to experience them - despite being party to a plausible generation of gamers. My theory is that when Monkey Island was released originally there was not such elaborate altern...

SO BASICALLY Valve have decided to pit the Soldier and the Demoman together - every Soldier who kills and Demoman and every Demoman who kills a Soldier - these kills are recorded by Valve and stacked up. At the end of the week whoever has the most kills of their alternative earns their class a new bonus weapon. TO MAKE THINGS INTERESTING Valve will be releasing normal (super rare) Class update...

The rewards we obtain from videogames are as varied as the games themselves. Mostly people play games as a test, and passing that test gives them a sense of achievement - the numerous achievement systems currently in operation are testament to this. The most challenging achievements require the highest amount of skill to complete - and the reward is all the greater as a result, the bragging rig...

Some music stays with you long after you have stopped playing the game it was paired with. Here is a selection of my favorite tunes that, for one reason or another, I can't seem to stop listening to. Some of them are even free to download, take a peek... 1. Braid Beautifully relaxing and mellow. Sleepy music for sleepy people. 2. Halo 3 One of the few games with a full orchestral score accompan...

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...though thanks to Steam sales, not too much money. Over the past week or so I have been taking advantage of the horrendously underpriced games on Steam, to the extent that I have more games than I really know what to do with right now. Here are some impressions: Mirrors Edge || £3 I FINALLY got around to buying Mirrors Edge, a game that I fretted over last year but dismissed because of it's s...

You know that charming robo-click adventure Machinarium ? It doesn't just look great, it also sounds great. You can download the bonus OST tracks for free here: Clicky . Anyone not doing the Robot will be killed. By Robots. I recommend By The Wall . Enjoy. Thanks For Reading Love Sweep

Now I can fully express my individuality , whilst at the same time giving other users an epileptic seizure. It's win win . Thanks For Reading Love Sweep

Steam sales! WOOP! I have to say I am contemplating Dragon Age Origins, selling for a wonderfully tempting £22. However there's something that keeps holding me back. I think it's the terrible voice acting, but it might just be the fact that it's Mass Effect with Orcs. On that note, i'm pissed with World Of Warcraft again. I spent ages bitching about it online last night to End_boss and I kinda...

Let's take a stroll outside the box. Videogames, interactive entertainment, is about consequence. What happens if I do this ? For me, videogames are a place where i can flirt with reality. In a world which has been designed to be experienced by a player, every exploratory poke is a reward. I want to know what happens next . It's about asking questions and getting answers. Mattbodega confused th...

If this was a podcast, someone would just have asked me what games I have been playing. But it's not a podcast. What are you talking about? Just read the blog, please. Everybody knows that Sweep loves Helicopters Modern Warfare 2 FINALLY completed the Snatch and Grab Special Ops level on veteran after hours of trying. Those Juggernauts are total bitches, and the dudes in Shadow Company really p...

This blog has been heavily sourced from the Guardian website , but here's the beef: Fazan Mohammed of the British Muslim Forum is quoted on the news site MCV: " You can't equate it with watching TV or a movie or reading a book. This is a much more intimate experience. You're mentally playing out the effects of violence. A lot of people make the excuse that this is sport – that it's just enterta...

I had a disturbing conversation with my friend today about Left 4 Dead 2. We have both been playing the demo fairly solidly over the last couple of weeks, but while I tend to actually contribute to the progress of the survivors, Dispencer has a different strategy; Dispencer : my aim is to grief so much L4D2 Dispencer: that people know of me Sweep: :| Sweep: whats you griefing strategy? Dispence...

It's 6:40 am. And no, I didn't wake up early. Here's some music: Stay Sleepy, Giantbomb Love Sweep

When I can justify getting excited for a game I get really fucking excited. When that game is the latest Call Of Duty game (Infinity Ward, of course) my excitement plateaus at a state of paralysing apprehension and fear. Once a game reaches the status of hype that precedes... well, the greatest games of our generation, it's all or nothing. Meeting expectations is never really enough. It has to...

Infinity Ward is perhaps my favourite developer in the world. They might screw up every now and again, but as far as I'm concerned they have built up a sizable safety net by producing several years of awesome Call Of Duty games. Modern Warfare 2, politics aside, is going to be fucking incredible. Sympathies I have, I like to think, a relatively simple life. My pleasures are straightforward. I l...

In the age-old crusade for perfection the best we can hope for in a game is that it's positive aspects outweigh its faults. My own personal threshold for what passes as acceptable has been known to variate. While a games review score may be of little consequence, the review itself is often extremely insightful as to the direction of my future purchasing decisions. There are some games that I ju...

Is because I have spent most of the week playing the Left 4 Dead 2 demo. There's only 2 chapters for fuck's sake, but i'm totally addicted all over again. Super stoked for the full game. The hunting rifle has been rediscovered and it blows minds all over the floor. I was actually working on a video blog, but Fraps doesn't want to co-operate with Windows Movie Maker. Stay tuned for more on that....

So, I pre-ordered Left 4 Dead 2 on Steam. This got me access to the L4D2 Demo (Kind of defies the point of a demo?). I played through the campaign a few times on Normal, Advanced and Expert - always online. The playable Campaign is Priory, only chapters 1 and 2. I don't know if it's because I played L4D1 on 360 and 2 on PC but the changes that have been made feel very substantial. When I dismis...

Hello. My name is Sweep. I've been a pretty regular Giantbomb member since the creation of the website back on July 21st 2008. Back on that day, I wrote my first blog in an internet Cafe in Mexico. Since then, a lot has happened - both in my life, and in the world of video games. Thanks to Giantbomb, I had the perfect place to write it all down. For my 200th blog I would like to look back brief...

I know there is a small contingent of DnB heads circulating the undergrowth of web brilliance that is Giantbomb, but these videos are fucking stupendous and can be enjoyed by pretty much everybody. Thanks For Reading Keep It Locked Love Sweep

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Many of you may know, i'm a zombie-lovin' kinda guy. This trailer (which you have probably all seen already. Sorry, these blogs gotta come from SOMEWHERE) has rocked my world. Pre-order has been placed on steam. Day one, I am completing this game. Start to finish. I dare anyone to defy me. Fuck. Yes. Also, did anyone else notice Rochelle shout "Stop the bombing run !". That's now being turned i...

Returning to World Of Warcraft at such infrequent intervals always leaves me feeling re-overwhelmed as I struggle to get to grips with all the wacky shit that has been introduced over the past few months. I'm sure to the continuous adventurer these changes are gradual, but each time I resubscribe to WoW it's like being slapped in the face. My usual reaction is to complain, loudly, to the neares...

Lost In Translation You take out your mid-life crisis on a random white girl in Tokyo. Bill Murray lends his reluctantly unenthusiastic tones to a medium he clearly has little patience for. A JRPG, perhaps? The Fountain As your wife slowly dies of some unknown disease you become disillusioned and search desperately for a miracle cure. The story is told through a series of abstract flashbacks an...

Today we, the students of Bournemouth University, were treated to a lecture from James Shepherd - the director of the Sony studio in Cambridge. Mr Shepherd and his team of 90 had contributed to the construction of games like Heavenly Sword , Wipeout , Play TV and LittleBigPlanet PSP . He spoke for over an hour, and allowed us to take part in a demonstration of the Sony brainstorming sessions. I...

When I signed up for the alpha version of Love, I wasn't really expecting much. It cost me two hundred and eighty seven pennies for thirty days worth of playtime. 8 hours later... I kind of wish I was still playing instead of writing this blog, to be honest. LOVE Love is a procedurally generated MMO. Its a lot of things - First Person Shooter, Adventure Game, Real Time Strategy, Sim - but what...

I think the video content here on giantbomb is waaaay more entertaining than any of the other dehumanising generic videogame themed sites on the web. As the Endurance Run is now finished and Ryan has apparently overstretched his patience with This Ain't No Game - we suddenly have two slots for new stuff. And let me tell you, I need this. I built a routine around the fucking endurance run, and n...

This has been a really shitty week for me. More than anything this has soured my perspective and sapped my enthusiasm, which has prevented me from both blogging and gaming. Fuck it, i'm going to try and power through. NEWS!! I turned 21 last Sunday; my 21st birthday present was a complete monster of a computer from my parents. If anyone is interested, it has: Intel i7 920 cpu Asus P6T motherboa...

As of october 4th (yesterday), i'm 21!! That's 7665 days alive. WOOP :D :D Thank you everybody for your birthday messages. They arent showing up on my wall because there is a bug that deletes them even when i click accept, but still I spent my entire weekend under the influence of something alcoholic, finishing up at a sweet Dubnium night which I don't actually remember. I single-handedly drunk...

Charlie Brooker is a bit of a hero of mine, he's a bit like Yahtzee except he knows what punctuation is. He's prepared to attack and praise in equal measure, and manages to take a surprisingly fair handed look at videogames. It's the sort of thing you could show to someone who had no idea what a videogame was and they could probably walk away with an up-to-date understanding of what the fuck is...

In with the New News, same as the Old News... When they told us at PAX that new content was coming for Left 4 Dead 1 I was hoping for more than 2 new chapters, at 560MS points no less. Does anyone else find this straight up fucking arrogant? Do Valve believe they can charge whatever they want for content that does clearly not justify it's pricetag. I bought Left 4 Dead with the understanding it...

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When I dress up as a fictional character it's either to harass drunken pilgrims or rob women of their innocence. Some people take pleasure from dressing up as computer game characters. I have no beef with this. For the first time however, I am genuinely impressed. This cosplayer blew my mind. I know what you are thinking. Yes, there is totally a dude in there. Ridiculously in-depth details on h...

Increasingly over the past few weeks there has been a fair amount of anti-mod tension floating around the community. Endogene may have lit the spark, but there has been a steady flow of dramatic exits and ban-hammerings. The mod's, the members of the community that have been tasked with upholding some internet-diluted form of decency, now are often treated as though they are the enemy. Perhaps...

As a certain Sweep is apt to say, " Sleep is for the week ". So, as it's a Friday, it's probably a good idea if we Keep It Simple... YES The End Of The Endurance Run What the fuck am I going to do with all this free time? Lists Has anyone made a list of the top ten lists? I should totally get on that. Bombing Run Saturday see me other blog for details. NO Jokes about Ringo Fuck you Andy parsons...

Winter 09 1. Modern Warfare 2 My most anticipated game of 2009. I am a huge Infinity Ward fanboy, I will openly admit, and for good reason. Their games contain a consistent level of quality that is hard to find elsewhere in the industry. Call Of Duty: United Assault is one of my favorite games of all time. I'm going to be playing the MW2 multiplayer for months to come. This game is going to roc...

Ok, as we eagerly anticipate the release of Modern Warfare 2, it's time to refresh our love of the franchise with a burst of Modern Warfare 1 - and what better way to do so than with a Giantbomb Bombing Run! For those that don't know, bombing runs are Community Game nights where we basically host and run multiplayer sessions only for Giantbomb members. Have you ever wanted to shoot Mattbodega i...

I have never wanted to share a game with my friends more so than with the Beatles Rock Band.

Over the past few months excitement has escalated and mutated wildly out of control for, unbelievably, a DS game. The nintendo DS, a system which seems to aim at quantity over quality, has seemingly adopted the humble Scribblenauts as it's social saviour. Finally, a DS game people can get excited about - with production values that encourage it's purchase rather than theft. For a game with such...

Before you erupt into prepubescent giggles, this isn't another blog about Sweep getting drunk. If that's what you were looking for then I advise you to come back on Sunday. Videogames are, largely for myself, a solo endeavour. I will participate in internet shenanigans, but the general gist of the occasion is me sitting in my room by myself. Depressing as that may initially sound, I would assum...

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I'm one of those types of gamers who likes to stick up for the artistic merits of computer games in random internet forums. Blogging comes naturally to me, which is why I now have a big chunky catalogue of TL:DR blog posts about why Braid is the best game ever made and why anyone who doesn't enjoy GTA4 has no soul. BE THAT AS IT MAY I decided to play some Ninja Gaiden 2 recently. Ninja Gaiden 2...

Huzzah for Thursdays! It's almost Saturday, the fuckend of the week is already past us! Each day inches us closer and closer to the mindblowing winter haul of awesome games. Beatles:Rock Band alone is going to bankrupt me. So... I guess I should just keep it simple? YES Shitty Zombie Films Dead Snow takes Nazi Zombies a little too far. Chopper Vs Chopper GTA4 still has so much more to give! Jus...

Now that I've lured you into my blog with this wonderfully misleading title I should probably explain what i'm talking about. (Not Team Fortress 2. Sorry) Demo's on Xbox live!! Mwahahahahahahahaha! *ahem* Here are some impressions: Section 8 In short, it's a cross between Battlefield and Halo. You get to spawn anywhere you chose by being plummeted into the warzone via your spaceship - Medal Of...

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Giantbomb is, arguably, a site built around a podcast. That's not me trying to belittle the site, I think it's awesome and i'm on here every day. A big chunk of the users are here because they either listen to the Bombcast or used to listen to the Hotspot. Don't believe me? Go check out the creepy Rich Gallup Shrine . The personalities attached to aforementioned podcasts are entertaining enough...

Orson Scott Card, designer of the world in which Shadow Complex is set, is a chronic homophobe. Some people seem to believe the indirect profits Card receives from this game justify a complete Boycott. I appreciate there are probably people here who both agree and disagree with this sentiment; despite a complete absence of any anti-gay themes featuring in the game. (Thanks to Coins from Neogaf...

Yesterday I decided to (voluntarily) read the second Gears Of War novel, 'Jacinto's Remnant'. Now I appreciate that Gears is perhaps not the most story-driven of games and the novels, while terrible, do add insight into what the fuck is going on. I'm kind of happy with the story and character development being left to the books, as this leaves the games clear for chainsawing stuff. However, I a...

I haven't kept it simple for a while, but as I attempt to frantically rebuild my blog - despite my laptop being killed and a heavy workload - I guess it can't hurt to keep things simple... YES Summer Of Arcade Shadow Complex and BF:1943 are going to keep me busy for the rest of the summer 2010 Delays I already have a fuckload of games to buy, if you want to ease the load by pushing back your ga...

PEOPLE LEARN THINGS FROM MY BLOGS For Example: In the 18th century Science and Logic took social priority over religious beliefs for the first time, post renaissance. This was called the Age Of Reason . Aside from being an awesome name for a videogame, the Age Of Reason marked a pinnacle of social evolution in the way we look at the world and accept the information we are presented. It is impor...

Over the past month I have been backpacking round Europe, meeting people, visiting historic cities, and drinking the local bars dry. I can't remember exactly what happened, but I imagine it went a little bit something like this... Sweeps Travel Blog: #01 To me, Paris had become diluted by both frequency and accessibility of my previous visits. I was there a few years back, sightseeing with my p...

As some of you may remember about a month ago I set out on an adventure round Europe. During this time I had only sporadic access to Giantbomb via shitty internet cafe's and occasional wifi theft. Well.... I'm back. Backpacking is physically, mentally and financially exhausting. When you begin there is a burst of adrenaline and enthusiasm, though as the journey wears on you begin to grow tired...

Yesterday I arrived in Amsterdam.... Assume the worst. Love Sweep

Bullet points!! Got Sleeper to Venice from Naples Fell in love with Venice Got drunk Fell asleep on street in Venice Got Sleeper from Venice to Vienna Missing Venice :( Eurotrip is going awesome :D Also just wanted to quickly apologize for my last Blog about the ComicVine ad. I didn't realize Babs was part of the staff there (having never visited the site) and I didn't mean any offense. Sorry B...

So... I should go sign into my ComicVine account, huh? Well played Whiskey. Well played indeed.

whattup Giantbomb!! here I am somewhere in south Italy (Sorrento?) after almost 2 weeks of travelling and, low and behold, I am still not dead!! My kidneys remain intact and my anal virginity has yet to be punctured. Huzzah!! no but serious :| Anyways I have been cruising around on trains and whatnot, bumbling up and down colossal structures like the Colosseum, and the Vatican where I completel...

Ok firstly NOBODY PANIC The resemblance is uncanny I'm not actually leaving giantbomb. However, tomorrow marks the beginning of an epic adventure, as two Giantbomb users set out to traverse the continent of Europe. Their names? Sooty and Sweep. At 7am tomorrow we leave for Paris. We spend a few nights there, then head to Florence in Italy via sleeper train. After that, Rome, Amsterdam, and then...

I'm just going to give a quick shout out to some great blogs I have found floating around the site go and check them out if you have a minute to spare. Makari || Blog Discovered via an excellently written Star Ocean review ( here ), his blogs are short but sweet, with a genial sense of humour. Seems to spend a lot of time playing Dawn Of War and has written a whole ton of Metroid related wiki's...

Having recently played Call Of Duty 4 on the PC as oppose to my more traditional weapon of choice (the 360) I found my return to the console slightly frustrating. The game remains consistently excellent, although the variation in player cap has caused me to furrow my brow. PC players can fill rooms with up to 50+ players. Those potential player caps have existed since Call Of Duty: United Offen...

Yeah, that's right kids. I just downloaded the Giantbomb iPhone app. Heres what you get for your pennies (£1.19): EDIT: Apparently requires the 3.0 iPhone OS!! The app is broken up into 5 sections. News - All the headlines from the homepage. Reviews - A list of the recent reviews, listed with 5-star rating. Videos - All Giantbomb videos can be viewed straight from the app - doesn't have to back...

I downloaded Kodu a few days ago. For those with their faces covered is smouldering hot tar, Kodu was the DIY community game that Microsoft blabbered about at E3, featuring a live stage demo from a " REAL 10 YEAR OLD GIRL " who looked about 14 years old, creating her own world which other players could then explore. Immediately the pressure was on. Every time I got stuck with an object I felt l...

I got this cool song recommended to me by a friend, but what really struck me was the incredible animation. It inspired me to make a new banner for my Giantbomb profile. Have a click. Thanks For Watching Love Sweep

Lies wrote a blog , then Tylea002 wrote a blog. Guess what. Sweep is also writing a blog. For all the same reasons. *Jumps on bandwagon* Spiderman Ole' web-head is one of the most loved comic book heroes ever made. The swing mechanic was fairly refined in Spiderman 2, which was released 5 years ago . It's a shame that Activision is incapable of finding a developer to design a game that can comp...

I fear I am alone in my unbound frustration whenever Jeff and Co confess ignorance on the Bombcast, despite the rarity of these occurrences. It just seems so hypocritical. If only there was an editable online videogame encyclopaedia which they could check for information... In completely unrelated news, I recently rebooted my copy of Mass Effect, achievements being the driving force of my retur...

Someone tagged me in this photo on facebook. I have never seen this image before, nor had I heard news about any of these films. I am now very, very excited. Real Blogs Coming Soon Love Sweep

This one wont violate your eyeballs. Thanks For Reading Love Sweep

Ryan asked for submissions for the design of the next Giantbomb T-shirt using the NEVER theme from the recent E3 Podcast. Here's my one: Let me know what you think. Thanks For Reading Love Sweep

HEY GIANBomB SO its friday night or saturday morning and i'm at home about to play some dead space. I'm on chapter 10 and things are getting a litte hectic. Anyways i jus wanted to write a quick blog to show that i love giantbomb etce tec etc and that MY HEART BELONGS TO GIANTBOMG and i will undoubtably regreet this blog at 110am tomorow morning. Take it easy kids Thanks for breathing Love Sweep

I love it when games fuck with your head, that subtle transcendence from videogame to reality as you suddenly doubt just what exactly can be believed and what is a artificial manipulation of a mental state in an attempt to cause confusion and befuddlement. It demonstrates a level of empathy that really is beyond any other, actually managing to trick the player. Eternal Darkness and Metal Gear S...

With the launch of Wii Motion Plus and new forms of motion sensor shenanigans from Microsoft and Sony, this years E3 buzzwords seemed to revolve around " Removing the controller " and " Making games more accessible ". I'm kind of sick of this, mainly because nothing meaningful has ever been a consequence of using a gimmicky motion sensor. Fuck the people who can't " see past the controller " (T...

There's a really decent interview over on Kotaku (shocking, I know) with Jenova Chen and a bunch of the other kids who made flOw and Flower . It pretty interesting stuff, mostly because it demonstrates a train of thought which is both refreshing and, most importantly, currently in effect. It's one thing to say that games need to be more imaginative and expressive, it's another to go out and act...

Apparently Left 4 Dead 2 has been redubbed Left 4 Dead 2 Soon . Over on the Steam website there is a Boycott of over 20,000 (and growing) subscribed users who refuse to purchase Left 4 Dead 2 so soon after the original, believing that the content is to sparse to deserve two full retail releases. I agree. SOURCE Retarded as most of the boycotters may appear when presenting their views in forum-p...

Well, I finished my first year of proper university. Summer ball was last night, its a massive 12-hour long festival type of event with loads of open-air stages and live bands playing all different genres of music. 5000 students turn up, everyone gets completely lampshaded and dances like cosmonauts. The best part is the fact that everyone is obliged to attend in full abstract fancy-dress costu...

Giantbomb hosts hundreds of great writers. So many so that it can perhaps be a little intimidating to new users. The blogs on Giantbomb are packed full of great content and each has a nice twang of individuality. If you are new here, or perhaps simply haven't given blogging a chance before - Here are some Blogs you might find interesting, a quick guide to the Elite members of the Blogosphere: D...

I guess Today is the day that Infinity Ward finally decided to show some real "ingame" footage of their upcoming Modern Warfare 2. It's the first real trailer (as oppose to a trailer letting you know about another trailer). I'm just going to go ahead and call it. This game is going to be FUCKING FAAAAANTASTIC. Proof; "> Video Games | Modern Warfare 2 | Reveal Trailer HD XBox 360 | Playstation 3...

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I have played warcraft at several points over my life. Several years ago, before the Burning Crusade , then for a brief period after the Burning Crusade was released (this didn't last long as I didn't really enjoy the expansion) and most recently, now - over the last 10 days. It seems everyone has a strong opinion of World Of Warcraft - those that play it seem to enjoy it immensely (and so they...

I'm done trying to make excuses for why I haven't been blogging much over the past few weeks. I have exams. Meh. I still frequent the site daily, still watch all the endurance runs, still read every blog that pops up on my feed. I still have several completely ridiculous opinions of my own concerning stuff that has happened over the past few days. Here are some: The NEW Bomb Should Have A Face:...

After hearing the befuddled account on the Bombcast, it seems nobody really knows what the fuck is going on with this upcoming Gears Of War 2 DLC coming out this summer (despite my blog which explained it all very clearly). There was confusion over if the DLC would be released on disk at retail, also over the "Hidden Chapters". Well, using the power vested in me by absolutely nobody at all, her...

Bionic Commando multiplayer beta was a lot of fun. It basically sold me the game, which I guess was the point. I was prepped to buy and spend many happy hours enjoying this game. So when EDGE, a magazine I trust inherently, gave Bionic Commando a 6/10, it made me pause. Suddenly, I'm not so sure. Did I really have that much fun playing the Beta, or was I just hypnotised by the fact that If I ha...

Holy Moley, its more Gears 2 stuff. But, for some reason, it's not going to be DLC. EPIC has decided to release the next update for Gears Of War 2 as retail on July 28th. || FULL STORY || This Expansion Pack (??) Will Include: All Current Gears 2 DLC to date Dark Fronts Map Pack (seven new multiplayer maps) An introduction from Cliff Bleszinski for "Road to Ruin" A collectible poster Strategy g...

Assassins Creed 2 Ezio Those screenshots stunned a lot of people into a sceptical silence. It's 2009. I could knock up better looking screenshots myself on photoshop. I want evidence of gameplay before I buy into any bullshit. Shenanigans aside, the rumors of Renaissance Italy appear to be true. This is awesome. Assassins Creed wasnt perfect, but the elements of the gameplay it got right were m...

Bionic Commando Re-Armed never really did anything for me. I felt like I was walking through a museum of somebody else's childhood, without a tour guide. Nostalgia fell upon deaf ears. But after playing a few hours with Bionic Commando for the 360, I think I'm beginning to understand what Bionic Commando is all about. Spiderman is Bionic Commando's bitch. The swing mechanic is unbelievably rewa...

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The comics are awesome, but the quality of writing is by far what makes Penny Arcade unique in its retro-flections of the Gaming Community and Industry. It's stunningly concise, whilst being gorgeously extravagant. It's like someone took my very opinions from the netherworld inside my head and made them interesting to read. I remain in awe. This weeks subject: Troll's. I suppose this makes me a...

Ok, so I downloaded the free L4D update for some ALL NEW SHINY survival mode. Yep, it's basically Horde mode. Except, uh, its hard as fuck. The Beef With survival mode comes the addition of Last Stand - a never-ending finale, on an incrementing difficulty, where you and 3 others are trapped in a lighthouse area. There are LOADS of Pipe-Bombs and Molotovs and Gas Canisters and Kerosene EVERYWHER...

I'm Feeling Lazy So i'm going to copy paste my reply to Tylea002's blog here. Enjoy. The concept of a moral choice within a computer game has always felt especially restrictive to me - People love to praise Mass Effect for the potential it offers to be good or evil - but arguably the most interesting choices can only be made if you already know which path you want to follow; Evil or Good. The n...

I's amazing how easy it is to get into a crazed Pokemon fuelled frenzy in the IRC. People seem to love talking about their favourite pokemon, their strategy's, which starting pokemon they picked, where the best pokemon can be found, how to get a balanced team. The joy of pokemon for me always was routed directly from being in a group of people who shared my enthusiasm. Pokemon was always a soci...

*ahem* I now own a DS lite Awesome huh? For those without an ear to the virtual ground I purchased a scrapped old DS on eBay then bought a replacement shell-case for the motherboard to slot into. Well, last night after 3 hours of intensive ds surgery, I managed to patch up a new-ish DS Lite for myself. It required a bunch of tools like a really small flathead screwdriver, some plyers and a tri-...

A while back Microsoft infamously publicly acknowledged that, yes, the 360 was fucked. The notorious Red Ring Of Death had plagued an entire generation of consoles. Ironically many users found themselves digging out old Gamecubes and PS2's while their "next Generation" was repaired over the course of several agonising weeks. Microsoft extended warranties and handed out pitiful compensation in t...

Welcome Back, Giantbomb, to my blog It's been a while. Today I handed in my Set 2 Project, which is comprised of a 2 minute animation made using maya. It involved designing characters and environments, drawing a storyboard, creating 3D models of the characters and landscapes on my computer, rigging them (giving them skeletons) and then keyframing them into an animation. Then I had to keyframe c...

I'm busy. I have a project deadline on friday. Much work must be completed. I don't even have time to write a half decent blog explaining why I haven't been writing any half decent blogs. HOWEVER I was shown this OLD old video on youtube and the first thing I thought was - " This guy should play Augustus Cole in the Gears Of War movie ". Yes? Yes. Good.

We can but dream...

Does anyone else sometimes look at the selection of games available and just… despair? Grizzled space marines, gangster sandbox games, driving sims, guns, guns and always more guns. Somewhere down the line the concept of " innovation " evolved into “ New exciting ways to shoot dudes in the face! ” I’m not completely ignorant to refreshing alternatives. I like to explore and experiment as much a...

In the continuing awesomeness of my university course we have a special guest speaker coming on Friday to talk about computer animation in the games industry. His name is David Walsh , and he is the managing director of Frontier Developments . He is special enough to already have his own giantbomb wiki page. For those who currently look slightly unimpressed, Frontier are responsible for creatin...

I'm sorry. What was once a daily feature in my life has now been pushed further still down my list of priorities. I am currently knee-deep in animation projects which involve me drawing up a ton of storyboards, rigging my character for the millionth time once I discover yet ANOTHER problem with the mesh, trying to write pretentious shit for an art theory essay and generally trying not to drown...

SO MUCH stuff has happened over the last week that the only way i feel able to adequately blog about it so fall back onto the old bullet point standby. BEHOLD, THE POINTS IN BULLET FORM!! I got Street Fighter 4 My next Blog will be all about it. I unlocked a load of characters except Akuma and Gouken and Seth (I HATE SETH, Rose and Crimson Viper) and I played a bunch of matches online. The game...

BLOGGER OF GIANTBOMB is a title I have never deserved, although in recent weeks I feel especially embarrassed to be at all linked to the mere potentiality of some kind of blogospheric recognition. I have many excuses though few that would alarm or entertain so I shall merely apologise and resume your usual blogging schedule. I was reading EDGE the other day (with my eyes) and columnist N'Gai Cr...

Street Fighter 4 is my most highly anticipated release of the YEAR let alone this stupid month. Although I will of course be buying Lost & Damned asap. I'm going to be a busy bunny.... Its weird how 2008 February through April was a dead zone, it's pretty buzzing release-wise for Q1 in 2009 (Year of the zombie)....

I'm still waiting for Street Fighter 4 . That's about all that's going on in my life right now. I continue to play Gears 2 regularly with whoever is online, big shout-outs to Discorsi, Tanuki, Brukaoru and EasyBoss . But Street Fighter is pretty central on my list of priorities - to the extent that is has completely overshadowed The Lost & Damned. Considering GTA4 is as Game Of The Year-ish as...

As part of my university course I am forced to endure a large quantity of pretentiousness in the name of educating and enlightening potential animators as to the world of existing cinematography. Today I watched Tekkon Kinkreet . I am, in all honesty, completely blown away. This is perhaps the most hauntingly beautiful piece of animated artwork I have ever seen. To the few of you out there who...

I just want everyone to know that I am officially ON TOP OF THE FUCKIN' WORLD right now having just heard the amazing news about Dead Rising 2 . I didn't get much sleep last night because i was out drinking so I can't be fucked to write anything coherent but FUCK YEAH if I could pre-order today then I would. 2009 Year Of The Zombie FUCK YES.

As computer games become increasingly cinematic, it is sometimes easy to forget their simple beginnings. The principle is one of being challenged by an interactive scenario, promoting reaction speed and mentally stimulating the solution to an abstract electronic puzzle. Convoluted as these principles may have become, the core elements of pressing the right buttons at the right time are retained...

I went through a brief phase of impulsive spending over the last few days Now I am the proud owner of: Marvel Ultimate Alliance -360 Burnout Paradise - 360 A Strobe Light Tickets to see Pendulum Live next month So that stuff is all awesome. Apparently we made a podcast which people liked. Well, the next one is going to be even MORE sexual explosive because I'm buying a bottle of vodka. I don't...

Its like making babies except with less sex. Rowr, Wallace, Virago, TokyoChicken and Some Dude Named Sweep all skyped up some magic and recorded it for your listening pleasure. Listen to it. Be pleasured. LISTEN TO IT It has girls in it. Also Virago. THANKS for Reading / Listening Love Sweep

The time I had previously allocated to writing blogs is quickly being filled with other stuff like "University", "Playing Computer Games" and "Having A Girlfriend". As A result, I appreciate my blogosphere has been punctuated by long stretches of absence, or filled with a precariously dangerous mix of alcoholic fuelled violence. Apologies. So what have I been doing that you would actually care...

just want you all to know that alk6thvfou i am drunk i am still thinking of all you guys andf i love you exspecially virago and mattbodegae and oni and rowr ans casey and wallace and dank and claude and coonce and millions of other people i cant rememeeebre or spell becasue efverything is a big mess of letters. my heart beolongfs to giantbomb.

These are some of the screenshots that were passed around in the IRC last night during the infamous "Town Hall" meeting. For those that don't know what that is because they have been living in a ditch weaving baskets out of pubic hair, Jeff and Snide (of Giantbomb fame) made a special appearance on Bomb Should Have A Face to discuss elements of the new site layout and answer questions people po...

Achievements should be about pride . Hence the use of the word - Achievement. Because you have achieved something worth noting. a⋅chieve⋅ment 1. something accomplished, esp. by superior ability, special effort, great courage, etc.; a great or heroic deed: his remarkable achievements in art. 2. act of achieving; attainment or accomplishment: the achievement of one's object. Whatever your motive...

PRE-ORDERED Bring on February 20th...

Sometimes I find myself just being a cynical fuckhead for no reason. Like, in BSHAF I completely tore apart Prince Of Persia without even mentioning a single aspect of the game that I admire - of which there are a great many. In retrospect I feel like a bit of a dick, but that was my choice. We can choose to focus on what disappoints, or we can choose to focus on what we enjoy. Some reviews may...

Ok kids, I haven't blogged much recently. There are reasons for this. Firstly I had my first real project hand-in deadline today and everyone has been working overtime to get our models etc finished. I'm pretty happy with how my stuff turned out, although I didn't get much sleep last night. I have been making stuff on Maya, 3D models of characters and landscapes. Sorting out textures gets me bo...

I'm really picky about the games I buy. That's what happens when you have limited cash. So I try to make an educated decision about every purchase - which is why I read reviews and talk to random creepy guys on the internet. WHO THE FUCK IS THIS PERSON AND WHY DOES SHE HATE ME?!? Some games are fairly straightforward in their position in my enjoyment spectrum. I know I can trust Grand Theft Aut...

The only thing more enjoyable than creating your own computer game content is knowing that people are out there enjoying it. The appeal of user created content is so broad that it extends from the simplistic level creation tools of Super Smash Bro's Brawl right up to the infinite creation of the PC modding scene. Giving people a set of tools to work with, be it Garry's Mod or LittleBigPlanet, a...

We are making a new GiantBomb community podcast. Its going to sound a little bit like this: BEHOLD, THE MANIFESTO!! why didnt it work last time? oh yeah I DIDNT RECORD whoops YEAH =) you didnt record ahaha your recording kept fucking up lol HEY LISTEN but that podcast is still talked about WHAT ITS NOT MY FAULT I SUCK it was THAT good YEAH i refuse to take responsibility but it was your fault a...

The past 10 days have been pretty mental. I've been jumping around all over the country meeting friends and family - getting completely rooted off my face along the way. But now i'm back, and there is a fucking MASSIVE number of things. I'm going to write about some of them here, today. Christmas Or if you are an atheist like me THAT TIME WHEN I GET FREE STUFF FOR NO REASON!! Everybody knows th...

Hello. My name is Sweep. I've been a pretty regular Giantbomb member since the creation of the website back on July 21st 2008. Back on that day, I wrote my first blog in an internet Cafe in Mexico. Since then, a lot has happened - both in my life, and in the world of video games. And, thanks to Giantbomb, I had the perfect place to write it all down. For my 100th blog I would like to look back...

Some characters are designed to annoy and frustrate you, to invoke feelings of annoyance and anger. However some characters seem to do this by accident, and will consequently cause you to turn green and smash things in rage. Its Christmas Eve, and I have a blog to write. I'm feeling festive... 12 Video Game Characters That Do Not Deserve To Live Tails - Sonic The Hedgehog Tails is a complete di...

You people are all members of Giantbomb. That means you ALREADY KNOW what the good games are, and which gaming aesthetics are going to itch your trigger fingers. So, here's a completely different list of things you should go and check out, but that probably wont feature prominently on anyone's top ten of 2008 list. AGE OF BOOTY SHAKE UR BOOTY!! There have been a lot of awesome XBLA games releas...

I have been home since Sunday, and I have only blogged once even though I have fuck-all else to do. There's no excuse, really. I downloaded the Gears Of War map pack and I have been playing through Gears 2 on insane mode with my little brother. Watching his reactions to my new games has been interesting. Left 4 Dead - He loves excessively, presumably because of its simplicity. Fable 2 - Showed...

I am a big Gears Of War fan. If I was in prison with Marcus Fenix... well... He'd better not drop the soap, that's all I'm saying. So when I heard there was a new Gears 2 map pack coming out TODAY (Spike TV WTF?!?) I immediately dropped 800 Microsoft points (which I can't really afford) on the Combustible Map Pack. Having played through all the maps I figured you guys would want to know the bee...

I'ts been a long time Giantbomb. Too long. (5 days) I have a lot of stuff to write so lets get cracking; Watchmen - The Graphic Novel There is nothing funny about this comedian. Apparently, Its kind of a big deal. After everyone telling me how awesome it was I though it's about time I read it. And so I did. It was... underwhelming? Before the mob starts sharpening their pitchforks, I should pro...

"I write a blog, on the internet. I write about games and books and stuff" " What the fuck is a blog? " "Uh, its like just a website linked to a load of computer games where I can write my opinions?" " That sounds like a diary. " "Its not a fucking diary" " You're fucking gay... " *sigh* And so my friend Ricky learned about blogging. I enjoy writing stuff down. I enjoy it even more when someone...

(SUPER STREET FIGHTER 2 TURBO HD REMIX!!) Systech has "finals" which means someone else has to take responsibility for the bombing run tonight. I'm not half the man Systech is, but the half of that someone that he is should be ME. Wut? I would like to extend to you all an invitation to the first Giantbomb Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix Tournament!! The tournament will be taking place on...

Everyone seems to have a wide source of intellectual income when it comes to video games. Rather than take the word of a single critic gamers will often seek out second opinions (and will often continue to do so until they find one that matches their biased presumptions). HOLEY SMOKES BATMAN!! I listen to what Giantbomb has to offer, because its of a high quality and refreshing cynicism. Snarky...

The ZOMBIES APOCALYPSE IS COMING!! Bring Friends!! According to Hamz, the zombie apocalypse could take place ANY SECOND NOW and everyone should already have prepared a zombie survival team of 3 comrades. This sounds logical to me.... Which 3 Giantbomb users would you pick to join your Zombie Survival team, and why? Mine: RYAN DAVIS - Because he has rage issues. MB - Because he has a cynical res...

Its the weekend. I could have just thrown out another episode of Keeping It Simple and everyone would have been happy. BUT I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT. Fuck no!! A bunch of stuff has happened over the last few days. I bought Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix and Left 4 Dead . And I'm really enjoying them both. My Left 4 Dead purchase was one of those " Fuck It, I'm buying it " moments. I could...

Last night I spent an hour writing up my Super Street Fighter 2 HD Turbo Remix impressions. I had just finished putting in all the links and pictures when - POOF - my computer died. Not just firefox but my entire computer. I'm not going to be able to re-write the blog till the weekend so until then you are just going to have to use the power of imagination. **INSERT AWESOME BLOG HERE** Stay sex...

This topic seems to crop up every so often Anyone who wants to backtrack over my previous blogs on the subject can find CONVENIENT LINKS here ( Part I ) and here ( Part II ). Jeff wrote a really decent article on this today which was my inspiration to chip in yet another two cents as to the whole " Why the fuck can nobody agree on game reviews ?" thing. Instead of writing a huge chunk of text (...

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!?!

Thanks For Reading Love Sweep

Its the weekend, which means its the end of the week. So lets keep it simple. YES BSHAF - I'm on it, and I frequently insult MattBodega. Someone needs to keep that guy in check... NXE - "There aint no party like an XBOX party!!" 2D fighting games - Bringin' sexy back... NO Marketing Cinematics That Feature Awesome Stuff That Isn't In The Game - I'm looking at you Gears Of War 2... System Requir...

Its 4am. I really should be sleeping right now. Lets not dwell on that. It's blogging time!! I have a lot of time for video games. Virago blogged about computer games sapping your remaining time alive . Well, honestly, there are worse things you could be doing with your time... It's spectacular watching how far people can be pushed, watching the limitations of mankind. With computer games, just...

I was reading a book the other day ( Small Gods by Terry Pratchett if you must know) and I stumbled blindly across the age-old question; Does a falling tree make a sound, if there is no-one in the woods to hear it? Which is basically, when you wade through all the pretentious bollocks, questioning existence. Its playing with our presumptions and assumptions. Usually I tend to avoid getting too...

Hey look, its a brief opening sentence with " Keeping It Simple " cleverly incorporated somehow. Just read the blog you monkeys... YES Gears Of War II - Great Success!! Crazy GiantBomb news stories - Jeff Gerstmann On A Piano (Eating Popcorn!!) iTunes - I love the "Genius" sidebar, its so damn sexy NO World Of Warcraft - Its painful to watch people destroy their own souls so willingly Short Lef...

British arrogance and pride is sourced on the understanding that the British Empire still exists and is single-handedly preventing the world from descending into chaos. That's why James Bond is so awesome. That's also why Zero Punctuation is so awesome. It perfectly encapsulates all aspects of dark British cynicism and humour to create some of the most hysterical game reviewing I have ever hear...

BEST BLOG TITLE, EVER. The heads over at Valve will imminently be releasing Left 4 Dead on both PC and 360. But with poor developer support for Team Fortress 2 on 360 still fresh in my mind, I'm finding it hard to commit to a developer that seems hesitant to support its consumers. Brains! Valve doesn't have any! The response this worry generated when voiced in the IRC was unhelpful. " You shoul...

I spent my entire weekend playing Gears2 - Finished the campaign on Normal and I think I'm close to my 300'th multiplayer match or something. I also went out on Saturday night and had the most FUCKED UP " lets just be friends " conversation with a girl I hardly even know while she was sitting on my lap and making out with me. SO yeah, crazyness has taken place. "Running wont help, I'm just goin...

Gears Of War 2 arrives tomorrow. I'm getting pretty excited. So much so that I cant actually play anything else. Fable 2 is persistently NOT Gears Of War 2, and as such I cant seem to stay focussed. I love the hype that surrounds computer games. I love the super positivity of every preview, and hate the consequent inevitable disappointment. However when a game manages to manage expectations and...

I have so much fucking stuff to write about right now, instead of writing up about 8 different WALL OF TEXT blogs i'm just going to keep it simple... YES Barack Obama - Huge respect for everyone that voted for this guy, lets hope he has what it takes =) Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix - Apart from having the best name ever, i'm glad that some damn news has finally been released. Mirrors Edge -...

I want to say a massive thank you to everyone who leaves me kind words of encouragement and support at the bottom of my blogs. You guys are awesome. I also want to say a massive thank you to everyone who inspires me to write. I have been asked a few times how I manage to think of something new to write about every day - and the answer is, just talking to you guys. Sitting in the IRC or on skype...

I haven’t really blogged much this weekend because, well, I've been playing computer games. Which is the whole point, after all. Shadowmen = Awesome Fable 2 is great. I completed it last weekend and have since been running around with my friends in co-op and working my way through some of the achievements. I talk about it a bit in this weeks (last weeks?) BSHAF podcast. I don’t know if its on i...

This is a blog, but also a forum post. Crazy, I know. But lets give it a stab shall we? Jolly good.... What makes a Game a game? Having three lives? Checkpoints? Cheating the system by saving before a crucial part of the story, then turning off the console if you make a mistake? We are in effect tied down by the limitations we have imposed upon ourselves as gamers. Reality. There are two sides...

Apparently people are bored of reading about important gaming topics, so for your shallow-minded entertainment i'm just going to keep it simple.... YES Unprotected Sex (IN FABLE 2) - With each new wife my army of mini-sweeps grows gradually stronger... Weekends - Now I have 2 whole days to explore Albion to the fullest! Being Cluster Fucked - For once gamers have not simply all gone out and bou...

On monday I wrote a long blog about The Little Big Planet delay as a result of some holy text from the Qur'an being used as backing music. This topic has recently been discussed by people all over the internet, in podcasts forums and blogs - and its a popular discussion point for many not only because of the Little Big Planet delay, but because its a wake-up call to everyone just how fragile ou...

Stuff for me is pretty messed up right now. I have a lot of family shit to deal with, and I really should be spending more time working on my university course, which I am enjoying but finding hard. Also I have a date with a hottie on wednesday which I really want to go well. So I'm going to take a break from the land of GiantBomb and the IRC, for a few days. I just think I need some perspectiv...

I missed my chance to keep things simple last friday, so I'm going to take it easy tonight and just play it cool... YES Podcasts - I now listen to more podcasts than I watch shows on TV. I'm a pod-head. Cartoons - I found some Street Fighter II V series which is getting me super pumped for Street Fighter IV XBLA Headsets - hearing Matt_Bodega yell " Goodnight mom! " reminded me he is, in fact,...

This news has been buzzing round the IRC today, and I'm sure ps3 owners everywhere are fairly miffed. However its quite an important issue as it actually reflects the current social and political state of the western relationship with the middle east. An Extract from the Qur'an For those who haven’t figured it out by now, this blog is going to be pretty heavy stuff - if you are going to take th...

Shiver me timbers, this game is fuckin' addictive! I don't usually blog reviews or impressions or anything like that, but I feel this game deserves my over-valued attention. So here we go, enjoy. Last night I downloaded the Age Of Booty trial - which gives you full access to the multiplayer madness (minus the user created maps). Having played for a couple of hours, I am very impressed with this...

I am literally counting down the days till I can get my hands on some sexy new games Dead Space and Fable II are so close I can taste them. With my mouth. So there is still a week and a half to go (for us here in the UK anyway, USA kids get their hands on the magic a little earlier I think?). The reason i'm so excited is partly because of the content I have already seen. I am, of course, talkin...

Love you giantbomb. Sweep *EDIT* Woke up. Head hurts...

THE BEEF There has been a lot of buzzing on the internet grapevine over this whole Halo 3 Recon thing. Apparently people are excited. However, upon hearing the news of a new Halo title, Excitement was not the feeling that hit me. It was, in fact, dissapointment. Just what we needed. Another Halo game... Last year, after releasing the excellent Halo 3, bungie turned gaming heads everywhere by de...

Dude, what the fuck is Starcraft? * clicks the Giantbomb Starcraft wiki * Oh right. Weird...

I love fridays, because they let me keep things simple. YES Futurama - Beats a hard kick in the face... Xbox Live Arcade - Space Invaders Extreme! Fucking YES!! Vinny - And his fucking freaky video editing skills. It's quite possible that Japanese girl will haunt my dreams... NO The Word "noob" - I dont think I need to explain why calling people "noobs" is a twat thing to do Halo3 Vs Cod4 - At...

The next month is going to be pretty busy for gamers everywhere The global economy is screwed, which means our gaming decisions gain extra importance as we are limited to the amount we can spend. One thing I forgot, but was reminded after hearing Jeff and Ryan talk to Greg Kasavin and Amer Ajami, is that crunch time hits game journalists just as it hits publishers and developers. Come November...

For the past 12 months my gaming rituals have remained predominantly the same. Call Of Duty 4 remains my ever-faithful weapon of choice - it's multiplayer proving far more versatile than many others of this years releases. My alternative gaming experiences over the past year have either involved smaller titles such as Castle Crashers or Braid - or my attempt at hacking and slashing with Ninja G...

Last night I took part in one of the notorious bombing runs with a bunch of you other crazy Giant Bomb cats. You probably know all about that (after all, you were there) so you dont need me reminding you how badly I kicked all your asses. Just want to say a big thanks to everyone involved, especially Systech - who I believe organised the whole thing - and Hulk, who gave me a run for my money =D...

It's a friday, which means it's time for another blog - Keeping it simple. YES Awesome Gears Of War videos - Watching "Rendevous" got me all excited again Ghostbusters - "Listen! ...Do you smell something?" Demos - They should be mandatory - It would enhance the review process so much more if you could relate to what is being explained. NO Nosebleeds - Tampons are not the solution. Halo 3 Multi...

There was a short article written in this months edition of Edge which talks about Saving your games. I found it interesting, because the save system is seldom considered an integral part of a game, more an extension of the menu. The sentence which stood out the most; "Developers are quietly walking away from the concept of the save as a fallback position from failure". When we get crushed, man...

Sweep is back, bitches! And he's on fucking FIRE Whats goin' on giantbomb! Today I got my router for my student house down in Bournemouth where I have just started university. I have been here a week and I have been out on the lash... every night? For 8 days straight. I spent £250 on alcohol. So tonight i'm going to take a chill pill and update my beautiful blog. Chasin' tail is hard work... I...

My student house doesnt have internet till monday, so i'm writing this in an internet cafe. I havent really had any access to the giantbomb so I don't know whats going on in the world of video games - HOWEVER i do have a hefty list of things I want to rant about, so when monday does arrive i'm going to blog your fucking socks off. From the smidgen of things i have seen on the "internet" there i...

Its quite depressing having to pack up everything you own into bags and boxes, but thats what I have to do right now. Tomorow I drive down to my student house in bournemouth as the next year of University has finally dawned. I dont have time to blog apart from explaining why I dont have any time to blog. I'm sure you will survive without my longwinded ranting. In the MEANTIME If you still need...

Friday Blogs = short and sweet. YES Freshers Week - I love you! The IRC - Kinda like the OC but with less girls... New Giantbomb Homepage - Its awesomeness in a box. NO Sexually manipulated gamers - I dont care HOW good the graphics are, its still pathetic... Waiting for Gears Of War 2 - My anticipation maxed out quite a while ago. White Site - I think it's giving me a tumor Thanks for reading...

Young "rapper" acts like an idiot on youtube Anyone genuinely surprised? I'm sure many of you have seen "Soulja Boy" giggling like a schoolgirl after his discovery of "mario in the future wearing a suit yo!". Or as we all know it, Braid. The assembled members of GiantBomb laughed in scorn at Soula Boy's ignorance. How on earth can he be so obnoxious over a title that has such obvious depth and...

I HAVE AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO THE USERS OF GIANTBOMB Stop continually whining about terrible forum mods. Its so pathetically trivial. Go play some video games. IN OTHER NEWS Sweep attempts to raise company morale! Stupid Machines Happy!! I work in a factory, sweeping floors. It sucks, but I need the money. Well today I got sick of watching the miserable bastards shuffling around their rows of...

I don't really like futuristic space games I found Metroid to be almost unplayable, and Mass Effect was just about saved by its conversation trees and character relationship networks. However the future in general is something that fascinates me (in a geeky kind of Back To The Future sort of way). I cant decide if I prefer the post-apocalyptic shabbiness of Star Wars and Blade Runner - or if I...

Its fun getting addicted to computer games There are no real physical restrainsts other than sleep (which I can last a fairly long time without, apparently) and food (toast?), which leaves you free to perfect your art as you see fit. My addictions have included Age Of empires II Call Of Duty 1 World Of Warcraft Resident Evil 4 Super Smash Bro's Melee Timesplitters II Crash Team Racing Quite a g...

I would like to begin with an extract from my favorite book in the world - " The Beach " by Alex Garland. " Streetfighter II - an oldie but a goldie - with Leo controlling Ryu. Ryu's his best character because he's a good all-rounder - great defensive moves, pretty quick, and once he's on an offensive roll he's unstoppable. Theo's controlling Blanka. Blanka's faster than Ryu, but he's only real...

The End Is Neigh! Apparently You guys have probably all heard about this attempted recreation of the Big Bang. I think its very interesting, especially seeing as some people are convinced it will destroy the Earth. I dont see what all the fuss is about to be honest. If we create a black hole and all die then none of us are going to know about it. Also - life is boring. Thats why we play compute...

YES Intelligent Gaming Discussions - Fuckin' A Student Loans - How else am I going to afford all these great games? Tuesday Nights - Its bombcast time!! Life Outside Computer Games - An epic gaming experiance is meaningless without context (see point 1) No Unoriginal Character Design - Another game with orcs in it? Great... Release Clusters - Dont rush it just so you can get it out before chris...

To some people games are meaningless procrastinations. This is fine, and most of these people would dub this the Casual Gamers segment. But for some, computer games mean something more. Not in any sort of pretentious meaningful way, but just as an understanding of quality substance. We can apprecciate a good game, just as with everything else in life. The people who fall into this category incl...

I just read Hilary Goldstiens blog on IGN and it reminded me just how many great games there are being released in such a short distance of time. I have had to update my list of wanted games - and whats scary is, I might actually find myself in a position where I cant afford all the games that I want. I dont know about you guys, but that has never really happened to me before. I have never felt...

Firstly thanks to everyone who gave honest feedback on the first episode of AFTERMATH , even those which werent so positive - its all constructive. I am going to do a few more episodes - but this time I'm going to create some of my own images and actually think about what i'm going to write instead of the first thing that comes into my head. If anyone has any suggestions then please feel free t...

Considering the Giant Bomb team have all these great web-pictures lying around I figured it couldnt hurt to try something out. These images werent drawn by me, they were just stolen from review pages, but if this is a success then I might start making my own... Let me know what you think

PAX IS OVER Which means the Behemoth kids have finally got home and found that someone has taken a shit in their mailbox. They consequently updated their site - " For those of you who are experiencing online issues, saving issues, etc I want to assure you that we are all very hard at work at getting an update to the game out as fast as we can. I am gathering all of the emails, forum posts, etc,...

Its hard to encapsulate the potentially infinate variable experiances in a block of type. You can be as expressive as you like, but you cannot account to how a random reader will react to the events when placed in the hot-seat themselves. There have been games reviewed which are, for want of a better word, broken. These are usually the result of underprepared or rushed developers, and fall apar...

ROCKBAND has always sounded amazing. I am continually reminded on almost every podcast I listen to just how much fun Rockband is. Heres the beef; I dont think anyone in the whole of England owns a copy. I dont have it, none of my friends have it - I havent seen any on sale in game shops - which implies there is no demand for it. I certainly didnt hear about any "Sold-out" headlines. One of the...

It was so good to hear Rich on my Ipod again He was back where he belongs. Somebody needs to nail-gun him into the Giant Bomb sofa so we are guaranteed a fix of Gallup every week. For some reason Gallup sounds like a condiment of some sort. I'm thinking Marmite but i'm sure any bovril flavoured substance would suit him just fine. Heres some fun Gallup related trivia. Some of you may remember Ri...

YES Off-topic Banter In Podcasts - Cracks me up Call Of Duty 4 online - It doesnt want to go stale... XBLA games - I cant be fucked to swap the disks anymore NO Broken online play - We all know what i'm talking about... Drunken Blogging - it doesnt look so smart the morning after Parents - "stop playing those bloody computer games, go and do something productive!"

Apparently Although my offline experiance has been pretty flawless. I havent had any of the crashes that other people have been complaining about and I havent had any of my characters deleted. The online bugs havent bothered me because I have been playing multiplayer locally. Am I the only person who doesnt have a broken copy of castle crashers? According to the other responses, no I am not. Bu...

Sorry for the third blog post today but I figured this was important. This was posted on http://devblog.thebehemoth.com/ I initially thought this was a patch for the game but it might just be for their website. Apparently its "getting slammed", I assume with people complaining about the faulty online components. Stay tuned... Good things come to those that wait

I got a little fucked off earlier and made some comments that were a little unreasonable - and if I pissed anyone off then i'm sorry and I realise I was acting like a bit of a tool. But there are two things that remain unchanged by this revelation. The first Is that Castle Crashers is a good game. Some people are having problems with it and I sympathise. The Second Pointing out people can't spe...

I spent a long time waiting for Castle Crashers. I loved Alien Hominid, and have mountains of respect for those guys over at the Behemoth. SO when I finally got my mitts on Castle Crashers last night I was pretty excited. 10 hours later.... I'm still pretty excited to be honest. First thing I did after buying the game was shout my brother over - and we immediately hopped into the Adventure Mode...

Castle Crashers Is arriving as we speak - currently downloading. Im SO STOKED. I think i should take this oppurtunity to explain why I am only just downloading it now, as oppose to midnight last night. Thats because I have been out getting smashed for the last two days. I hit up Notting Hill Carnival in London which was fuckin insane - and then shot down to worthing to catch up with a load of m...

When was the last time a video game made you angry Not angry because of broken mechanics or unbalanced difficulty peaks. I'm not talking about throwing your controller away in disgust or punching the nearest wall/chair/person in rage. I mean - when did you last feel such blinding rage at the characterisation inside a computer game. For me this was Call Of Duty 4 . That last scene of the single...

The greatest remix ever. /sarcasm

I downloaded two demo's last night. Soul Calibur IV and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Here's what I thought... The beef Star Wars The Force Unleashed This game is surprisingly good. I get sick and tired of mediocre action games which have been plastered over with the starwars liscence (see Soul Calibur IV), but this game is actually a lot of fun. I especially enjoyed lifting up dudes and thro...

Get the drones working on the podcast technology! I think the quality of the Giant Bomb video content is spectacular and I would love to be able to subscribe and download it on Itunes. I'm sure a lot of other people would also be stoked. MAKE IT HAPPEN PLEASE GIANTBOMB!

Today I bought my 4th Threadless.com T-shirt, which is titled " Bone Idol ". It looks awesome = Threadless.com This isnt me. Neither is this.

An awesome HD remake of Street Fighter II with new remixed graphics? Called something like Super Street Fighter II Turbo High Definition Remix ...? Sexy Im really excited for Street Fighter 4 and I was looking to get the revamped old-school 2D version on XBLA but apparently its not out yet, despite it being slated for a Q3 release. That kind of sucks... because there are going to be lots of oth...

According To Jeff Its not what I had in mind. Apparently the RPG loot elements have been heavily emphasised over the combat and thats not what I was looking for. Also the multiplayer sounds rubbish. If I want to go dungeon crawling I will play world of warcraft. Instead of buying this i'm just gunna go get some more arcade games...

Religion is a bit of a paradox for me. I love the poetry of something spiritual affecting the way we live our lives, but I flat-out refuse to believe in a higher authority that in some way manipulates us or our environments. I dont believe in God. But for some unexplainable reason, I believe in karma. If you do something bad, something bad will happen to you in turn. The idea being, if you do s...

Castle Crashers Will Cost 1200 MS Points Huzzah! My faith in humanity has been resored! But yeah as Jeff G pointed out - why are we acting like this is special? What happened to the 800 point limit? I dont know about you guys but after Castle Crashers (awesome) is out I doubt im gunna be forkin out more o' the green stuff for arcade games. Fuck Yeah!!

I'm a WoW Player I know, I know. I have been playing for about a year and a half but I took a year away from playing for a break, only to renew my account a coupl'a weeks ago. I have The Burning Crusade, but it was released while I was still only level 58 - and now I'm level 62. I still havent had a chance to experiance any of the Endgame 40 man raids or excitement which everyone says is so gre...

When Super Smash Bro's Brawl arrived I immediately set about in unlocking my old-school favorite Falco. I could absolutely OWN with him on Melee, and I was expecting to be able to do likewise in the new game. But Pit somehow when he finally arrived... it just didnt feel right . I have since spent a fair amount of time with the game, allowing myself to become accostomed to the new styles of figh...

So I double clicked on my friendly desktop Firefox icon, and was pleasantly forwarded to my homepage, as both intstructed and intended. Google.co.uk welcomed me with open arms. I was greeted to this merry and familiar sight: A cunning trap! And was just typing in the address of our trusty Giantbomb(.com) when a sutble message caught my eye. Obsessed with the Games? It seemed to say. If only you...

I love zombies More than anything. I love the slow stumbling ones that wander around with an amusing ambiguity and confusion. I love the speedy running ones which are super violent and agressive, with psychotic rage issues. And I love the deformed mutated ones that are mega strong and can rip off limbs and leap huge distances. One of my favorite films is Shaun Of The Dead , closely followed by...

I have a lot to talk about, which is why I feel its important to use as many small and confusing acronyms as possible. Firstly Batman: The Dark Knight A maze of greatness. Saw this at the cinema today. I'm sure everyone has already formed their oppinions of this so i'm just going to say, it was long and mostly what I expected. There was some clever writing, but as a superhero film remained larg...

I bought Braid last night And i'm really enjoying it. Its very theraputic, and I love all the mario remix stuff. The story - while simple - is articulately composed and gives the game a harmonic underlying fluency. My beef with braid is the price. 1200 Microsoft points. Apparently in the USA thats $15? Well, in England thats £12 I mindlessly forked out for Braid, and it wasnt until I stopped to...

I really shouldnt be spending all my money on Braid, but fuck it - I downloaded the trial and that game looks like it could turn into something amazing later in the game. When is castle crashers being released, does anyone know the exact date?

2008 Apparently there is this huge gaming thing called The London Games Festival which happens every year (in London apparently) and is all about "Video Games". This is news to me, but GOOD NEWS so i'm not complaining. The strange thing is I lived in London last year and I never heard about this so I guess I am just an epic FAIL. Anyways I did some research and apparently - Its going to be awes...

In yesterdays Bombcast Vinnie raised the important Issue of zombie teams. Seeing as a zombie holocaust is inevitable I think its important to allocate the team roles to the appropriate members of Giantbomb. The Token Black Guy Played By Jeff Gerstmann Every zombie team needs a black dude. He will either be a Cop or a Gangster, and he will definately know how to use a gun. Contrary to popular be...

XBOX LIVE STUFF Ok so today I have been scanning XBLA for some juicy videos and stuff, and I found a few things I thought I would share: Street Fighter 4 Gameplay Intro (E3 2008) Ken is Hot Shit This is the first time I have been able to watch street fighter 4 in action and I have to say, what I'm seeing is very impressive. Street fighter 4 looks like an honest fighting game, and is obviously t...

A few people have been posting pictures of themselves on their blogs, I guess to give us a shallow perception of what they are really like as human beings. I am going to jump on this bandwagon like no bandwagon has ever been jumped on before. I look like this. Most of the time. WHAT? All the cool kids were doing it...

Videogaming is a culture that relies on History like no other. Previously great games are not disgarded as primitive, but are increasingly held with reverance and respect. You may laugh at your Dad for listening to Elvis, but you respect a man who can get the high score on Space Invaders. Gamers look back with fond memories over the titles which they have played, for better or for worse, which...

Sonic the hedgehog. And Crash Bandicoot. The damage is doubled because they fell right from the top... The games that we are most dissapointed with are the ones we have fondest memories off. Its terrible watching developer ruin a franchise that used to be your personal favorite.

I'm back! At home (in England). The plane flight back was awesome, I watched IronMan and Kung Fu Panda - both awesome films! While I was away on holiday for 3 weeks I missed a whole bunch off stuff that I never really had a chance to explore in depth. E3 for example, was bypassed in blissfull ignorance. However now I have returned I have to download a back-catalogue of podcasts and catch up on...

Is it just me or is the Blog toolbar broken? Instead of appearing as a neat strip mine has been staggered into one toolbar per icon so my blog box is MASSIVE. Anyone else having this problem?? As for my response to the "How can we improve GiantBomb" connundrum my suggestion would be to add Gamertags and console ID´s to each profile. Also maybe compact the User Feed because it does take up a lot...

When I return to England in.. 3 days? I will at last have the oppurtunity to devote a chunk of my free time to Giant Bomb, giving it the respect it deserves. I am therefore setting myself the challenge that upon my return I shall complete the Giant Bomb pages for each and every of the original 150 pokemon. I just did Snorlax and it made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I know lots of people still...

A short list of stuff to get done before I kick the bucket. Hug A Bear - Swimming with Dolphins is for pussies Party With Cliffy B - Preferabely in Las Vegas Go Skydiving Work on a AAA game and have it published - When drunk I told my friends I was going to make GTA6 Write A Book Play Alan Wake - You never know... I will probly think up some other stuff soon but yeah my list of lifelong ambitio...

Hey there people im sorry there has been a blogging lapse but im on vacation in mexico atm so BACK OFF. Anyways I finally found a hotel with the internet so im going to offer you a few quick reflections on my summer so far. Television - all the classy hotels have cable which means I have been able to watch stuff like HBO, ESPN and CNN which we dont get in England. PEOPLE OF AMERICA. Your TV suc...

Members of GiantBomb. Chill the fuck out Thanks for reading. Peace.

Like the millions of other pissed off Xbox 360 owners my Xbox 360 caught the red ring of death plauge that was circulating the gaming population. That was last november, and since then I have been very happy with my new replacement console. At the time the red ring phonemenon was in full swing, but now I find less and less people to be complaining about dead 360´s. Is the Red-Ring plauge finall...

Now E3 is over we have been left with the all too familiar sense of super-positive previews and consequent frustration that these games are still so far away. As a 360 owner I was fairly unimpressed. The prominent titles on display were already at the top of my shopping list. As Mr Gerstmann said in a Bombcast, I´m sick of watching Gears Of War 2 videos. I just want to play the damn thing... Dr...

I cant seem to edit my Giant Bomb profile?! I´m trying to change my email and console preferance but every time I click save it just reverts to the old ones. Is anyone else having this problem or is it just this crappy mexican computer im using?? Apart from that i´m loving GiantBomb so APOLOGIES for taking the jam out of the Giant Doughnut.

So this is my new blog. I have blogged elsewhere on the Internet, mainly on IGN - but I have always been a big fan of the giant bomb crew and so i´m moving here to show my support. (nobody mention "G***spot"). GiantBomb. Its a whole new Internet phonemenon. Anyways my profile is full of wonderful information about myself. And as an introduction to my blog itself I would just like to point out t...