Category: Games

Sunday 16 December 2007 | Games | Comments (0)

I have both the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3 at home so I consider myself pretty lucky. I'm also not one of these people who loves one console over the other fanatically. So I think I'm in a good position to be able to speak about both consoles, and...

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Wednesday 24 October 2007 | Entertainment : Games : Moans | Comments (0)

I find this incredible. The BBFC are coming under fire for releasing the David Cronenberg film Eastern Promises uncut, despite the high level of violence. Now my issue is not with the fact that they are releasing it uncut, I'm actually pleased they are, mine is with their inconsistency. The...

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Wednesday 10 October 2007 | Games | Comments (0)

The BBFC have banned Manhunt 2 yet again after the publishers decided to rework the original, which was also banned, and submit it once again. This banning reeks of double standards in an era when videogames have become the new enemy of the minority of moral crusaders, and the double...

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Saturday 22 September 2007 | Games | Comments (0)

Okay I spend too much time indoors and especially in front of the computer, I know that, and when a videogame comes along that I love playing I tend to get hooked into that and sit there for ages playing. That said I do make a concerted effort not to...

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Monday 27 August 2007 | Games | Comments (1)

I had been having a few problems with my Xbox 360 for a month or so, now and again it would freeze in the middle of a game. The first time it started happening it was always the same level in multiplayer Rainbow Six: Las Vegas, so we put it...

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Tuesday 21 November 2006 | Games | Comments (3)

My engagement present arrived, an XBox 360 system (the one with a controller and hard drive), S-Video Cable and Project Gotham Racing 3. Yes, I'm a lucky man and when the box arrived, a very excited one. Now though, after being an owner for a good five days, I have...

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Monday 23 October 2006 | Games : e-learning | Comments (2)

I've been reading lot's recently about "serious games" for e-learning and to date I haven't read anyone who has hit the mark on what makes games work and how games would be applied to e-learning. So far people seem overly hooked on big, immersive, high-end graphic based games such as...

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Thursday 6 July 2006 | Games : Moans : e-learning | Comments (2)

I've been a huge fan of the game Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30. For those of you who don't know it's a game that puts you in the shoes of a soldier dropped in France on D-Day. As he gathers stragglers and gets together his team he finds...

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Tuesday 20 September 2005 | Games | Comments (9)

There's no denying it, I've stopped playing videogames as much as I used to. I still play though, and I love playing them. Getting caught up in it, whether it's feeling as though it's really you in the dark suit creeping about and getting huge frights when the alarm is...

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Wednesday 13 April 2005 | Games | Comments (4)

Microsoft have announced their second generation games console. Quite simply put that means their XBox 2, named the XBox 360, this is almost 3½ years after its release, whereas the Playstation 2 has been on release now for almost 5 years. Some difference. An article I read recently asked you...

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Tuesday 16 November 2004 | Games | Comments (2)

I’ve been reading Roger Avary’s Weblog now for some time, mainly for my work on the MovieBlog and his involvement with the Silent Hill project, but also because it’s interesting, he’s famous and he seems like a good guy. Just yesterday I saw the post on his Blog about filing...

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Monday 15 November 2004 | Games | Comments (0)

Since I discovered an online RSS Reader in the form of Bloglines I've been looking out for interesting sources of information. One of my main aims was to find some accurate and real information from Iraq not only from the Iraqis there, but also from journalists and soldiers. While I...

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Sunday 14 November 2004 | Games | Comments (4)

I'm so hacked off with Halo 2, and it's making me think of downgrading my review of the game. Before I start, let me get a word of warning out to everyone out there. Checkpoints seem to be only saved in memory, not to hard disk. They don't last through...

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Thursday 21 October 2004 | Games | Comments (0)

The BBC News is going mad on game stories just now, and quite rightly - there's loads just now. Adverts in games, games based on real news events, academic studying of games and also the continuing practice of piracy of big release titles...so, without further ado......

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