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SSX: A Review
1st April | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
You know when your uncle tries to dance or your dad tries to rap? That’s me when I try to understand snowboarding. All the gnarly lingo and flippy floppy acrobatics look fun though, even if I’d be a danger to fashion, myself and anyone around me. Thank heaven, then, for the return of SSX.
SSX, or seriously sexy extreming or something, I dunno, it doesn’t matter, is a remake of the... -
Resident Evil Revelations: A Review
5th March | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Zombies! Only joking. Resident Evil doesn’t do zombies anymore, not entirely. Ever since Resident Evil 4 in 2005, the classic zombie-reinvigorating action survival horror franchise has played down the living dead in favour of ‘infected’ people. And monsters.
In Resident Evil Revelations Jill Valentine actually uses the words ‘monster’, ‘infected’ and ‘zombie’ during the course of her dialogue. Honestly, I don’t know if I recognise this Resident Evil thing anymore.
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Battlefield 3: A Review
6th January | 8 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Well, well. Call Of Battle and Duty field, here we are again; two identical games, resting on their laurels, keeping the more blinkered among us devoted with years of £40 games we tirelessly pay for. Which came first? If you care about that kind of detail, leave.
For us normal games fans, Battlefield 3, like its more famous counterpart, the Call Of Duty series, is just a first-person shooter set in... -
Hide your pockets! Sony’s PS Vita Is Coming
12th December 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Not that I’m rubbing it in, but I’ve played on the new PlayStation portable wonder-machine. Jealous? You can say ‘yes’ here.
The PS Vita, the successor to the questionably popular PSP, will be released here in the UK on 22nd February, next year. It’s a big deal because it’s the first new games console in a while, in a time where, due to the massive cost of making games, releasing a... -
Gears Of War 3: A Review
22nd September 2011 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I love a good cliché. Don’t you? The way a whole subject or personality is summed up one easy-to-notice bite and damages everything it was trying so hard to cultivate in its own style.
Things like grumpy commuters, Hollywood hot-shots like Charlie Sheen or moaning about not having the heart to dump someone even though you’re not that into them anymore. So cute.
Then there’s Gears Of War 3. This ‘blockbuster release’... -
How portals and a cake make sequels difficult
20th April 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Remember Portal, eh? What a brilliant game that was. Do you remember when you first played it?
Expecting little more than a glorified display of a funky new physics engine toy, we were given the perfect video game: a brilliant fuse of logic, story, mechanics and quirky end-game music. Ah, yes. What a game.
Or, maybe you’ve never heard of Portal. You wouldn’t be the first to scratch their head at this,... -
Rock Band 3, money nil
4th January 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
After two sequels, Rock Band is starting to feel like the repetitive, money-spinning cash-in more jaded people decided it was in the first place. This is coming from a Rock Band die-hard; by die-hard, I mean I thoroughly enjoy playing the songs. The career emulations and band editing can sod off.
So what’s gone wrong with Rock Band? I’ll tell you; it is now the dictionary definition of ‘money for old... -
Warning: Halo Reach may seriously damage your social life
4th November 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
What really pisses me off about Halo Reach is that it’s really good. You might think that’s an odd thing to say, and you’d be right. I was aiming for an interesting opener.
As a follow-up to Halo 3, video gaming’s master of online, first-person shooting, Reach was guaranteed to be involving and plot heavy, with a slew of juicy new, and finely tuned, online features. What do you know, it... -
Get your geek on at MCM London Comic-Con
15th October 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
After last year’s fantastic event, the MCM London Expo is on again this year from 29 to 31 October at the Excel Centre in London’s Docklands.
It’s sure to be an overwhelming exhibition of the greatest comic books, TV shows, films and video games you’ll ever find in one place. In London. There will also be a brilliant, and all together fabulous, display of cosplayers – or hardcore fans in amazing... -
Eurogamer Expo 2010 – Disappointing
6th October 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The videogame industry is one of the most lucrative entertainment industries on the planet. Every year it excels with new technology and innovation and has garnered millions of eager fans in the UK.
So why was the 2010 Eurogamer Expo, Britain’s biggest videogame expo, such a massive disappointment?
I’ll tell you why; most of the games were brutish shooters, all clones of each other in most respects. There was also a woeful...
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Richard Preston
A product of Scotland and a second-generation child of modern media, Richard's natural ability to form accurate and correct opinion has seen him work for a number of actual printed publications. He's tinkered with gadgets, condensed huge swathes of Cult TV and Sci-Fi into his head and has even stood on stage to tell jokes what he wrote himself. Now living in North London, he dedicates his life to guiding you through our planets maze of media hell.
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