Archive for the Consoles category

Gaming Like A Sir: Piracy And Porn

An Assessment Of Piracy And DRM Through The Use Of Pornography. I know you’re here for the porn. But now that I have you I’m going to present one idea [...]

Gaming Like A Sir: Excited For Black Ops 2, The Modern Warfare Effect

I’ve been feeling nostalgic of late. Maybe it’s the cold, wet weather of contemplation or perhaps it’s the long lonely, music filled bus rides of late or perhaps it’s my [...]

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Gaming Like A Sir: Marketing Games Properly

My new column, NOW WITH WORDS! Immersion is an odd thing. Developers toss and overwork the word as if each use directly correlates to another sold copy of their game. [...]

Is Valve Going Ahead With A Console?

It’s been rumoured for some time now that developer Valve would be throwing its hat into the ring with Sony and Microsoft (let’s just forget about the Wii and Wii [...]

Experience Points: The Evolution Of Videogames

The relative difficulty of typing something on the page of a blank screen with a blinking cursor as a guide may be a daunting task, as Timothy exemplified in his [...]

Your Old Xbox Might Be More Valuable Than You Think

You know that old Xbox of yours, the one that overheated or RRoD’d or got sat on by a fat kid? Well, to you it’s just a useless piece of [...]

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5 Anticipated Story Driven Games In 2012

Love it or hate it, Mass Effect 3 has come. My personal feelings for the final chapter in Shepard’s tale will be discussed at some point after I finish the [...]

Top 5 Action RPGs Before Mass Effect 3

With a few days before release, here are the 5 games Mass effect 3 needs to beat to be the very best. Like no one ever was. Mass Effect 3 [...]

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Vita Seems To Have Found Its Feet

The PlayStation Vita seems to finally be finding some stable ground after a rough and shaky launch in Asia in December. According to Sony’s latest sales figures, the Vita has [...]

5 Things Mass Effect 3 Must Do So I Don’t Firebomb BioWare

The harder we love, the more viciously we hate. I love hard. Mass Effect 3 is only two weeks away. Fourteen days. 1 209 600 agonising seconds. I wish I could [...]

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Vita Could Succeed But Only With Price Cuts According To Research

Was research really necessary to come to that conclusion? Anybody with a moderate IQ can see that the PS Vita is not doing well and a big part of this [...]

More PS4 Rumours, This Time AMD’s Involved

Officially, the PS4 doesn’t exist yet but it sure is getting enough press to make you think it’s on the brink of launching. Earlier this week, we reported on how [...]

Sony UK: PS Vita Price Cut “Not Currently” On Radar

Sony has stated that a price drop for the recently-launched super handheld, the PlayStation Vita, is “not currently” on its radar. As we know, the device is pretty expensive at [...]

5 Great Features In Average Games

A diamond in the rough. Because the Aladdin in us never dies. Have you played my favourite game? Do you agree with my choice of console? Masterchief or Kratos? No?! [...]

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Vita & PS3 Cross-Platform Play – Two Games For The Price Of One

Yeah, we all love free stuff. Deny it and you’re just a liar which is a mortal sin on the 3rd Friday of the month. SCEE has released a list [...]

5 Terrible Features In Great Games

May you find what you are looking for. The above line is an old Chinese curse. The disparity between Western and Eastern culture is never more evident than in their [...]

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Ken Levine Really, Really Likes Vita

Ken Levine seems to have a new-found love for Sony. At the publisher’s E3 press conference, he showed off BioShock: Infinite’s Move support and then proceeded to whip out a [...]

5 Popular Games That Won’t Be Remembered

Fan favourites that no one will remember when something better comes alo…ooohh look! Something shiny. We have all started to use the word memorable to mean fun or enjoyable. I’ve [...]

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Does Sony Have A Wii U Shaped Trick Up Its Sleeve?

It looks as if Sony is working on a touchscreen handheld controller much like that of the Wii U. It’s a little more sophisticated though as Sony’s controller seems to [...]

Could Monster Hunter Be Vita’s Lifeline?

The PlayStation Vita is by no means an outright failure just yet but that doesn’t mean it won’t be. It’s no secret that Monster Hunter kept the PSP ticking over [...]

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Wii U Is Only “Twice As Powerful” As Xbox 360

It’s time for another session of “random shit said by nobody in particular about the next generation of consoles”. Today’s victim is the Wii U which we at least know [...]

Sony Designer Wanted Vita To Go On A Diet

I quite like the Vita’s design and it isn’t really that bulky given the hardware it has on-board. However, being Japanese means that Takashi Sogabe, the console’s designer, isn’t quite [...]

Get A Vita, Look Like A Complete Douche

So someone decided that instead of receiving the super awesome Kevin Butler treatment, the best way to market the PlayStation Vita now that it has launched in Europe would be [...]

Nyko’s Power Grip Could Potentially Fix Vita Battery Concerns

Nyko, a peripheral company, is gearing up to dish out a range of new peripherals for the PlayStation Vita when it launches next month. However, out of all of them, [...]

3DS Sales Give Sony Hope

PlayStation Vita is nowhere near being a failure just yet but people seem to be writing it off already due to a slow start in sales. What they seem to [...]

PS2 Is Matching PS Vita In Sales, This Is Plain Crazy

Mazel tov to Alessandro who will be taking delivery of his shiny new PlayStation Vita today but it seems like the good captain won’t have much of a crew to [...]

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House: Sony “Not Contemplating” Talk About Future Consoles

According to Sony Computer Entertainment president Andrew House, the firm isn’t yet contemplating talking about “anything to do with future console iterations at this point”. There’s been a great deal [...]

Indie Review: Grotesque Tactics 2: Dungeons & Donuts

Grotesque Tactics 2: Dungeons & Donuts is a satirical turn-based RPG from developer Headup Games. The game parodies the RPG genre with all its frills and steel plated armour. Any [...]

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Vita Will Be More Focussed Than PSP – Sony

Sony seems to have learned from the overall mistake that is the PSP and promises to do things right with the PlayStation Vita. The Vita will be billed first and [...]

Sony Speaks Up About The PS4, Just Don’t Expect Many Words From Them

Okay so it’s not exactly a revelation and Sony’s not exactly dropping huge details on us but we finally know something about the PS3′s successor despite the complete lack of [...]

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