Sep 29, 2010

Another blow to optimist’s Christmas lists everywhere comes as Nintendo announces that the 3DS is getting a March 2011 release date for Europe and North America, after the Japan release on February 26. The price for the unit has been set at 25,000 yen, which when translated to slightly more familiar currency comes to around £188. This leads us to make a...

Jul 29, 2010

The first thing I’d like to do in this article is shamelessly plug the recently launched CG forum, which you can find at www.soapboxgamers.co.uk or by clicking the ‘forum’ link at the top of the page. There is a reason; this was originally going to be a post in said forum, until I realised I had too much that I wanted to say (as is,...

I hate Christmas. I’ll give you a second to recover from your immense surprise at that statement. To me, Christmas is less a time of peace and love and more a time of immense commercial success. Yeah, I hate this time of year. I’m the kind of guy who thinks fairy lights are a waste of electricity and that anyone wanting to play Santa in a shopping...

Whilst creeping down the ever darkening halls of online gaming, soon it might be a good idea to protect your supple brain with a hard hat as new studio, Undead Labs, intends to bring us the world’s first console MMOZ (massively multiplayer online zombie game). Whilst nothing concrete is known about Undead Labs’ online zombie slaying fest, the blurb makes...

Oct 29, 2009

So, the other day I decided that I needed a new, larger, hard drive for my PS3; and seeing that the price of 500gb drives had fallen to a point where it was a ‘no brainer’ I went and purchased one from my local PC World. Incidentally I only ever go to PC World for impulse buys – I cannot stand the place. The staff are on a par with those that work...