All Entries in the "Gaming" Category
Top Five iPhone Games
After weeks of deliberating I finally ordered, not one, but two iPhone 3G S – one for me and one for the new Mrs Blair. They should be arriving next week, and I’m already creating a list of apps I want to install. Portable video games are hot as a pistol, and the [...]
Activision announced DJ Hero, Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero
The popular American Video game developer and publisher, Activision has just announced three new game titles to extend the Guitar Hero gaming franchise. This includes DJ Hero, Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero. It’s been revealed that the turnable controller of DJ Hero will be used to create original mixes from hip-hop, R&B, Motown, electronica [...]
Can You Really Run It?
Played something cool like Left For Dead? How about Far Cry?
I like visiting the PC stores to buy games. The games are not always for me, mind you. Often, they’re for my cousins or friends. Giving the gift of games is almost guaranteed to elicit a wide smile. (In contrast, try gifting someone with Encarta)
It’s [...]
An Online Poker Guide With That Little Extra Something
If you are into Internet poker there are numerous poker guides available online. Most of them provide more or less the same stuff. You will find reviews of online poker rooms, bonus deals, news, and poker strategy texts. Well PokerJunkie.com is not that much different on the surface, but this online poker guide definitely provides [...]
Looking Back At The Present
If you’ve been following me at all you know I like a good retrospective. Admittedly, while I endeavor not to live in the past, I do enjoy a sense of nostalgia. The years put a fresh coat of paint on the past, and we tend to remember only the good, and perhaps make it a [...]
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 – My New Favorite RPG
Megami Tensei is a Japanese console rpg series that is big in Japan, not so much stateside. The series has generated a lot of games since the days of the original NES, and a lot of spinoff series as well. Not many of them have made their way stateside, but it looks like American gamers [...]
Go Back in Time with PlaySEGA
When I was a kid, I went through a phase where video games fascinated me. I still like gaming but I can’t help thinking about the good old games of the 80s. Sure, they’re nothing compared to the games available today but at that time, there was nothing cooler.
If you feel a little nostalgic and [...]
Using NXE Can Get You Kicked off Xbox Live
Microsoft’s New Xbox Experience (NXE) claims to be the ‘ultimate social entertainment experience’. Basically, NXE will replace the current Xbox 360 dashboard that’s been around for 3 years now. The NXE is set for release on November 19 and it will download just like a normal update.
Of course this being the Internet, there are [...]
Playing Call Of Duty 4 Tonight On Xbox 360
Yes, I will be dusting down my Xbox 360 at around 9:30GMT and playing Call of Duty 4. I think this will be the first time I’ve had the time to go on my 360 this year…..
If you’re going to be online tonight then look out for TooMuchi San and please don’t look at my [...]
Virtual Fear: 10 Scary Videogames, Part 2
I loved scary movies as a child, and I love them as an adult, for reasons both same and different. Horror captures some communal subconscious memory we’re all connected to. It’s about adrenalin, mystery, and trying to find something out about something that is unknowable.
Virtual Fear: 10 Scary Videogames, Part 1
Being a console gamer, I missed the text based pc horror games of the 80s. (I also never found the Alone in the Dark series scary, for all of you who are going to reference that game as the genesis of fear on the videogame console.) Despite the fact that a couple 16 bit titles [...]
Playstation 3 Remote Control Solutions
One remote to rule them all
One remote to find them
One remote to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
Impressions Of A New Playstation 3 Owner
OK, I was late to the game buying a PS3. I had actually sold my PS2 in anticipation of picking one up at launch, but frankly the combination of excessive price, no software, and no interest in Blu Ray put me off. Fast forward almost two years, and my reluctant acceptance that HD DVD failed [...]
Feedback: Protecting Your Tech Investment
An actual conversation between myself and my 15 year old son, 13Aug08:
Two Years Later: Sony Playstation 3
I bought Beta. It was better than VHS, but there weren’t as many releases for it, and eventually VHS killed it.
Ok, I never bought Beta, I’m talking about HD DVD. We can argue about the technical merits of HD DVD and Blu Ray, but the fact remains that when I purchased HD DVD it was [...]
EA Sports Press Release Confirms 250 Changes In FIFA 09
EA Sports’ latest press release has just confirmed that FIFA 09 will have the 250 previously mentioned changes.
The press release is followed by a few new FIFA Soccer 09 screen shots and four fact sheet which I will be releasing the next couple of days.
You can read the entire FIFA 09 press release here.
FIFA 09 Rumours Part 1
FIFA 09 the latest installment of the top selling football franchise is being developed at EA Canada and is boasting over 251 improvements from FIFA 08.
There is no word on if the PC-version will be next-generation this time. I do think that Playstation 2 owners can be relieved.
EA Sports won’t forget you.
Following up last year’s [...]
Starcraft – A Quick Trip Down Memory Lane
With Starcraft 2 announced last year, the anticipation for Starcraft 2 is increasing every day. No one knows when the game will be released yet though.
So while we wait for Starcraft 2, fans of Starcraft are busy creating videos, trailers and blogs about the next version. One fan however went the opposite way.
“Luckyfool” has created [...]
Will FIFA 09 Feature New Copy Protection?
You’ve probably heard about EA’s latest RPG “Mass Effect” for Xbox360, but did you know it’s coming out for PC very soon too?
Ok, but did you also know that you’ll need to activate the game in order to play it? Oh yes, Mass Effect (PC version) is using SecuROM, which requires online activation.
But it doesn’t [...]
Marriage And It’s Effect On Technology And The Internet
Marriage. Like death, it is inevitable. Ultimately you will encounter that one “right” person and make the leap, or maybe you will simply reach that point where it dawns on you that if you don’t hurry up and pair off with somebody you are going to grow old and die alone.
We are all selfish creatures, [...]
