Wired’s gaming blog, Game|Life, canvassed their predictions for the upcoming year in terms of gaming and the issue of the hardcore gamer, particularly vis-à-vis Nintendo, came up. Whenever this issue is raised I pray someone will say what should be plain for anyone to see. Namely that the hardcore demographic vastly overrates their importance and [...]
I realise I’m a little late on this one but Christmas isn’t quite here yet and there’s a chance I might still save some of you out there from making a poor purchasing decision based on a review score. I don’t believe this is the most startling insight of all time but as someone who [...]
When it comes to video games it’s all about immersion these days. To better immerse us designers strive to make their games ever more realistic. They make the physics realistic, the controls realistic, the locations realistic. They make the object models realistic, the lighting realistic, the weapons realistic. They make the vehicles realistic, the socio-political [...]
Well it’s been over a week now and I’ve given up waiting. Waiting? For what? Perhaps some background detail is in order first. Despite seemingly all predictions to the contrary, Blizzard Entertainment, the developers behind the ridiculously successful World of Warcraft, announced last week that their next game would be a sequel to their ridiculously [...]
A gripe I’ve had for some time now has been the lack of any real journalism in video game magazines. This is indeed part of a larger problem that affects all areas of the media but in respect of at least some there is a halcyon period to which one can look back on with fond [...]
Adrien came over today and we spent most of the day setting up his Playstation Portable. In recent days I’ve become aware of software that finally makes the PSP useful and in my desire to spread that joy to as many people as I know possible I invited him over. It took a while — [...]