Games
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Hands-on with Project Natal
28 February, 2010: Guest writer Louise Troy plays with Microsoft’s new motion-sensing camera attachment for the Xbox 360.
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I hate sequels
21 November, 2009: Guest writer Ian Edhouse talks about Valve Software and the sequel to their 2008 hit Left 4 Dead.
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Sunday morning gaming
8 November, 2009: Most of my gaming is done on a weekend; I find weekday evenings I'm usually too tired to really dedicate the stupid amount of hours a typical game requires, so I binge over Saturday and Sunday. When Sunday morning comes and I slump on the sofa in my dressing gown, a mug of builder's tea by my side, the games I play have to meet a few requirements.
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I play games on easy
10 October, 2009: I've recently come to terms with my inability at playing any game with any skill; from now on, I'm playing games on the easy difficulty settings and I don't care who knows it.
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The Xbox and I, revisited
19 April, 2009: Long time readers may remember my brief excursion into the world of the Xbox back in 2004, when I bought a limited edition Crystal Xbox in order to sell at a profit only to discover that they had been re-issued and I was lucky to get my money back at all. Back then, the Xbox platform held no interest for me, with its library appearing to consist almost entirely of shooting and driving games, and the online aspect didn't hold any appeal either. Fast forward to the present day, and we find me adding an Xbox 360 Elite to my ever-changing collection of consoles.
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iPhone gaming
8 March, 2009: Mobile gaming has always been an aspect of gaming that I've been happy to let pass me by, because mobile gaming has almost always been awful.
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World of Goo
4 January, 2009: I'm a very fussy gamer, often owning consoles only for one or two games, and often abandoning games to ebay after about 30 minutes or so if it fails to entertain or show signs of promise.
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Game
15 July, 2007: We hear a lot these days about how the internet is killing high street stores, and although I do feel a smidgen of nostalgia and sorrow for the passing of chains such as Fopp, every time I find myself in a branch of Game I end up hoping for imminent bankruptcy, because Game is rubbish.
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Pokémon Curious
24 June, 2007: I first encountered Pokémon in cartoon form back in the mid-nineties, and it struck me as being an overly-excitable mess.
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I Just Wanted to Play Zelda
22 April, 2007: I am contemplating buying an Xbox 360. This is not because I particularly want an Xbox 360. No, the reason I'm contemplating this is due to a process of elimination: aside from handhelds, the X360 might be the only console I can both buy and use, and I find that mildly upsetting.
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Drums Keep Pounding Rhythm to the Brave
25 March, 2007: Last year, I lamented the lack of iconic, memorable music in today's games. The focus of my writing back then was on the catchy jingles older games excelled at providing, but while today's in-game music may not be as well-suited to the world of ringtones, it does provide us with another gaming genre; that where the music is not incidental, but actually integral to the in-game experience.
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Game On
14 January, 2007: Currently in London at the Science Museum, there lives a beautiful thing. It is Game On, an exhibition that purports to explore the history, technology and culture of computer games but is basically an excuse to play Xevious with all the free credits you can eat. Starting with Space War on the Vectrex and ending with Wii Sports, it's also how I imagine my house would look, if I could only disregard time, money, space and reality.
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In-Game Music
5 November, 2006: Modern videogames do not provide ringtone-friendly music.
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Cost and Effect, II
24 September, 2006: Last week saw me ramble on for far too long about Apple product updates, leaving me with no space to talk about the Nintendo announcements that took place around the same time.
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Gaming for Girls
10 August, 2006: As I seem to be making the confession genre on Joeblade my own special domain, here's another: I'm a girl. And I really, really enjoy playing computer games. (Come closer so I can whisper in your ear: Sometimes, I even play them on my own.)
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Bandai Wonderswan SwanCrystal
6 August, 2006: The Swan Crystal, the third and final iteration of Bandai's Wonderswan handheld console, is precisely the sort of hardware that a hardcore gaming nerd such as myself ought to possess, displaying it proudly alongside his Hello Kitty Dreamcast and his Sam Coupé
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Nintendo name their console ‘Wii’
30 April, 2006: So, though I am technically supposed to be spending my time on something else at the moment, I felt unable to let this one pass by unmentioned. As you may have heard already, seeing as the internet exploded with the news last Thursday, Nintendo have revealed that their next console, previously known as the Revolution, will, in [...]
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Nintendogs Revisited
25 December, 2005: I thought I’d just update you all on the state of my puppies, Buckley the beagle, Titus the King Charles spaniel and Cardigan the dachshund; they are dead. I killed them.
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Nintendogs
23 October, 2005: I had a dog, once upon a time. He was a cocker spaniel and he was called Jasper, and when he was a puppy he was friendly, loved to meet new people and was full of life. As he got older he grew into a cantankerous, arthritic old bastard, attacking anybody he didn’t know at first, then eventually turning on [...]
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Game Boy Micro
2 October, 2005: It’s a bit of hardware that doesn’t do anything my DS doesn’t do already. It has a tiny screen, it’s so small that it may cause my hands to cramp into tiny little claws, it’s more expensive than a GBA SP (which would also play Gameboy Color and Gameboy games) and is essentially just another cynical attempt by [...]
