http://www.hardcoregamers.com Gaming opinion that's been drinking whiskey. Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:27:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ..and I haven't updated. It's not that I don't like video games anymore, or that I don't have opinions on them, I just think the time has come where I don't have the dedication or interest to write at length about gaming. There's already far too many gaming sites out there ... http://www.hardcoregamers.com/2008/03/11/50/ 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 ... http://www.hardcoregamers.com/2006/01/14/48/ 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 ... http://www.hardcoregamers.com/2006/01/13/47/ 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 ... http://www.hardcoregamers.com/2006/01/01/45/ 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 ... http://www.hardcoregamers.com/2005/12/11/44/ 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. http://www.hardcoregamers.com/2005/12/11/42/ 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 ... http://www.hardcoregamers.com/2005/12/09/41/ Ikaruga is several years old, first appearing in Japanese arcades in 2001, then on the Dreamcast in 2002 and finally on the GameCube in 2003. I regard it as one of the best games available on the GameCube and as such, I present my review in retrospect. The crew at ... http://www.hardcoregamers.com/2005/12/04/39/ 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 ... http://www.hardcoregamers.com/2005/11/17/38/ 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 ... http://www.hardcoregamers.com/2005/10/29/37/