Category: Videogames

Gaming Conformity vs Reality

Gaming Conformity vs Reality

Like many other people I tend to purchase new media on day one.  A new game is coming out?  Preorder from Amazon or Game.  Much of this is enforced by the wonders of the preorder.  Buy from X and get an exclusive code to unlock something.  Do it in one of those old fashioned brick [...]

February 21, 2010 | 10 Comments More
Bayonetta: Inspired Insanity

Bayonetta: Inspired Insanity

For the past few years there have been numerous articles written in countless magazines, on gaming web sites and blogs about the state of the Japanese gaming industry.  Where once Japanese companies, games and studios ruled the roost, now we find some of the largest players in the electronic entertainment business are from the US [...]

January 18, 2010 | 4 Comments More
New Media Arrives

New Media Arrives

Thanks to the excessively cold temperatures this past week we went without any post until yesterday when this bumper crop arrived.  To be honest I’m amazed it all came at once Planet Terror and Crank 2 were from the Play.com sale (£9.99 each, the only non-digital sale items I bought this..no wait..last year) and Bayonetta [...]

January 9, 2010 | 4 Comments More
Coffee Break Musings

Coffee Break Musings

CAUTION: This post contains spoilers for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. If you are one of the few gamers who hasn’t completed one of the finest shooters even made, proceed with caution! After my last post where I ruminated on the slightly uneasy feeling I had playing Call of Duty: World at War, I did [...]

May 27, 2009 | 3 Comments More
Touching a Nerve

Touching a Nerve

It’s the summer gaming/TV transition once again.  All of the major TV shows are finished for the next few months, leaving only Harper’s Island and a massive stack of The Wire, Buffy and dozens of other shows for contemplation.  Once upon a time I used to bemoan having a lot of movies to watch, now [...]

May 24, 2009 | 8 Comments More