“Daddy, daddy, is it here?”
“Yes son, it is. Came this morning.”
“Oh Richard, I’m so glad you bought a Wii for Christmas. What a lovely gift for the kids.”
“Quick Daddy, open it! Open it!”
“Ok buddy, calm down. Here I go…”
Internet auction site eBay has been selling thousands of Wii’s, PS3’s and Xbox 360’s over the past […]

Yes, the holiday of eggnog and The Panel’s Christmas Wrap is upon us.
Whether Christmas represents another wretched visit from your crack-smoking Aunt, an excuse to have another turkey leg (“Well, it is Christmas…”), a great time with friends and family or simply a shitload of presents, the team at Blogger Within would like to wish everyone […]

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 […]

Have you ever found yourself at the end of the line of some horrible customer service? Your electrician says he’ll be down Monday, he doesn’t show – you feel like cutting his throat. Hair dryer breaks down 2 days after you bought it, but the store has a no refund policy. Blockbuster won’t let those […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]