I heart my Krogan Battlemaster. Reminds me of Mr. Snuffalufagus from Sesame Street, only less imaginary friend and more axe-murderer acquaintance. The wife surprised me with an early christmas present, and Bioware surprised me with a timewasting apparatus of epic proportions!
For the record, I thought KOTOR was poop. Sorry, but I never got past […]
Posted by Erick - December 10th, 2007 - 3 Comments
There should be no doubt at all that Microsoft have this year put together a fantastic line-up of titles for 360 owners. The traditional fourth quarter influx of festive releases started earlier than usual this year, with titles such as Halo 3, Skate, Orange Box, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect and PGR4 all jostling […]
Posted by Bleem - November 29th, 2007 - 2 Comments
Had a nice holiday weekend in New Hampshire, Thursday to Sunday with very little family interaction. A few friends purchased an Elite and had 2 new black controllers, so they came over for a little split-screen on my 50′’. Now, with my brother letting me borrow The Orange Box and a rental of Call of […]
Posted by Erick - November 26th, 2007 - No Comments
December 11th Bungie is releasing new maps for Halo 3, and they will cost you 800 MSpoints. Standoff, Rat’s Nest, and Foundry are the map names, and they should be implemented into matchmaking as they are launched.
“When Halo 2’s downloadable content joined the Internet, it effectively split the Matchmaking population into the “haves” and the […]
Posted by Erick - November 20th, 2007 - 10 Comments
Ubisoft launched Assassin’s Creed in the US yesterday, and I was able to secure a copy. She’s a big girl but she’s kindof pretty. Which means she can chug a beer with ya at the bar but when you take her home you feel a little disappointed. Not to say I’m disappointed with this title, […]
Posted by Erick - November 15th, 2007 - 6 Comments
Dundee-based Realtime Worlds won two BAFTA’s for ‘Action and Adventure’
and ‘Use of Audio’ at the gaming industry BAFTAs in London on Tuesday 23rd
October, making it the most successful European studio at the ceremony.
The company received no less than five nominations for the British Academy Video
Games Awards, for its critically-acclaimed title Crackdown, which was released
in February […]
Posted by Bleem - October 24th, 2007 - No Comments
For me, there have only really ever been two proper Xbox 360 packages - The original ‘Premium’ and it’s younger brother the ‘Elite’. Microsoft have since the launch of the 360 in 2005 carried the ‘Core’ version, and this festive season will see the release a further variation in the form of the ‘Arcade’ pack.
I […]
Posted by Bleem - October 13th, 2007 - 4 Comments
Today Microsoft put out a press release announcing that the demo of PGR4 had hit live. Obviously this is pretty good news for fans of PGR, allowing them a first view of what, based on the previous instalment, had been looking like a pretty guaranteed buy.
Now putting aside the fact that many of the first […]
Posted by Mr-J - October 10th, 2007 - 2 Comments