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Nintendo up to their old tricks again?

I don’t know about you, but I hate it when promises are broken. A promise to buy my favourite cereal and then not picking it up, trivial as it may be, still pisses me off. Wikipedia defines a promise as “a psychological contract indicating a transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in […]

Playing Halo could soon become a crime

Not just because the game is a crime against video game quality (that’s bound to get some responses), but if Germany has anything to say about it, every time you turn on Halo and kill AI, you’re committing a crime. Every time a publisher inserts a knife into a video game, he’s committing a crime. […]

Console to Portable ports: Worthwhile?

There appears to be a growing trend of console to handheld ports, specifically with the introduction of the PSP. With some added technological prowess backing Sony’s first handheld, it seems developers are becoming more keen in porting games that were originally created for consoles onto the handheld platform.
While it’s all well and good that these […]

Wii-actions, Part 1

10:47pm. Excitement is building.
11:06pm. In the car now, driving to the midnight launch.
11:20pm. I have in my hand ticket number 53, handed to me by EB employee Mark.
11:35pm. Crowd starts to form. EB run out of tickets. Good thing I got here early.
11:59pm. Seconds left. The 40+ crowd is getting restless.
12:01am. Australia holds their breath.
The […]

What an extra $200 gets the gamer

Compare the following linked images… and decide if the hyped Cell Processor and ’supercomputer’ give you anything extra at all. Sony claims the next gen arrives when they do. Looks like it has been here for quite a while already. Thanks for showing up late.
Quotes from Sony’s Ken Kutaragi:
“With the PS3, our intentions have been […]

Bungie’s 5 year Halo Anniversary Video Special

Bungie has released a special Halo 3 featurette on the 5 year anniversary of Halo. Featuring all new old video and some promo stuff, it is really maybe worth a look.
Honestly… you release basically nothing for months.. then on the 5 year anniversary you release the same freaking footage you released months ago, but add […]

Reasons to Love Gears of War

Anyone with a 360 should be playing Gears of War right now. Personally, I’m very stoked that the game lives up to its considerable hype (something Halo 2, arguably, did not). My full review is on GamerWithin, but upon putting in another 10 or so hours into the game, I’ve come up with a list […]

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