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2old2play Article on “The Good Old Days”

2006-01-14 0214 UTC

I’ve really been getting into the site 2old2play, a gaming site dedicated to gamers over 25, of which I am one. Today I came across their article New Technology vs. Old Gamer Classics, an article which starts by asking why patches and instability are tolerated by today’s gamers and finishes by tugging at any life-long […]

ATi Interview @ Revolution Report

2006-01-13 0006 UTC
Posted in General Gaming

Revolution Report, a site I’m staff on, conducted an interview with John Swinimer, ATi’s PR man following CES.
It’s getting a good bit of coverage from other sites, but there’s a few interesting points to be made. Firstly IGN stated the Revolution’s Hollywood GPU was believed to be an extension of the Flipper GPU (the GameCube’s […]

Electroplankton Reviewed

2006-01-1 0201 UTC

Go Nintendo were lucky enough to receive a copy of Toshio Iwai’s Electroplankton from Nintendo, and did the decent thing in reviewing it.
For those of you who have never heard of this game, which is more a piece of art work than goal based entertainment, Electroplankton allows players to create music by manipulating sea life […]

Comrades

2005-12-11 0923 UTC

I’ve just set up a comrades page, where I’ll put links to sites that are cool enough to link to me. First on the list is RawmeatCowboy’s Go Nintendo, a site I’m a big fan of.
If you’d like to join the list of comrades, details are on the comrades page.

Revolution Controller Test - A Flash Animation

2005-12-11 0130 UTC

This got me laughing. It’s not that piss-take of the contoller unveiling that we’ve all seen, it’s a mock-up of how the revolution controller will work; give it a try.

Ballmer Can’t Get a 360

2005-12-9 1102 UTC

So, it seems Microsoft’s own Steve Ballmer can’t get his hands on a 360. According to Joystiq, everyone’s favourite angry man of IT said;

the Ballmer children do not have their Xbox 360 yet. I’m in the same boat as many of you

Joystiq comments that;

If you are currently in possession of this holiday season’s hot […]

My DS SP Concept

2005-11-17 1010 UTC

There’s been a bit of talk regarding the hint Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime dropped regarding a redesign of the DS;

as soon as [the DS] was launched, [Nintendo] started looking at ways to tweak it visually.

So, in a few comments threads, I’ve been posting my first concept that I conceived upon hearing about the DS. Back then […]

A FPS Control Scheme

2005-10-29 1128 UTC

I’m not a FPS fan. I used to be, back in my teens when Doom and Quake rocked the roost, but so far as I’m concerned, the FPS genre is stale and stagnant.
However, I do think of the FPS as an important genre for the industry as a whole, so I came to thinking, following […]

Single Button Games

2005-10-22 1249 UTC
Posted in General Gaming

Collision Detection, a blog run by a bloke called Clive Thompson has an article on single button gaming, and points to a marvilous little site called Globz Mini Games, which features a set of 13 wickedly addictive games that use a single button. This is the kind of gaming it’s all about. The games involve […]

DOOM Movie Gets Slammed

2005-10-20 2313 UTC

So a few game journalists have seen the DOOM movie and the reactions are hilarious. In short, it turns out Hollywood still can’t make a decent movie out of a game idea.
My favourite comment comes from this 1Up review;

The release of Doom should be considered to be an act of entertainment terrorism towards not only […]

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