New year, new tech toys to play with. Here’s a brief look at what I’ve been investigating this week. First up, this all-in-one Sony VAIO desktop PC. Just before Christmas I installed the top of the range version of this machine for my boss. That one was £1,700 worth of the cream of the crop [...]
Before Michael Bay spent a gazillion dollars on the Transformers franchise he made a series of somewhat clichéd action movies, but the one that has always stuck out for me is Bad Boys (his first feature film). Give Bay a relatively small budget and a paper thin plot (two cops bust drug dealers and cop [...]
Alan Wake has been a long time coming for me. Given that its major influences are Stephen King (my favourite author), The X-Files (my favourite television show of all time) and Twin Peaks along with a smattering of Lost for good measure, this is the game that could have been designed just for me. After [...]
If certain web forum trends are to be believed then once every few years people who play videogames a lot (or have done for a long time) usually tend to go through an occasional “why do I do this?” phase. Of course I’m no expert on this particular subject, or any other for that matter, [...]
Square Enix is the latest in a relatively short line of Japanese videogame companies who have been aggressively acquiring Western studios to expand their portfolio of titles, and perhaps more importantly customer numbers. If you had told me a year ago that I would have played three Square Enix published games in the space of [...]
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New year, new tech toys to play with. Here’s a brief look at what I’ve been investigating this week. First up, this all-in-one Sony VAIO desktop PC. Just before Christmas I installed the top of the range version of this machine for my boss. That one was £1,700 worth of the cream of the crop [...]
Before Michael Bay spent a gazillion dollars on the Transformers franchise he made a series of somewhat clichéd action movies, but the one that has always stuck out for me is Bad Boys (his first feature film). Give Bay a relatively small budget and a paper thin plot (two cops bust drug dealers and cop [...]
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