May 17, 2010

In a previous article, I spoke about inevitable change. The specific example was that of gaming magazines and the lessening reasons they should carry on existing. It may seem ironic then, that this time around I am looking at an example of fighting change. As I continuously pointed out; change is inevitable, but that it is not to say that change is of a...

I was on holiday recently, visiting family in Glasgow. A lovely place with lovely responsible people. Whilst there, we had a day in town to look at some shops and keep my wee one occupied (we had already done Loch Lomond and the transport museum).As one does, we went into a shopping centre and low and behold we were in a store, which also happened to include a...

Have you seen this old episode of The Simpsons? During Marge and Homer’s dating period they go and see The Empire Strikes Back and as they leave, passing by a queue of people still waiting to see the movie as they go, Homer says to Marge, “Wow! Who’d have thought that Darth Vader would be Luke Skywalker’s father?” I’m really sorry if...

The GAME British Academy Videogames Awards are creeping up, just over a month, and now you get to decide GAME of the year! From a list chosen by GAME BAFTA, anyone can vote from this selection. The games include: Beatles Rock Band, FIFA 10, Assassins Creed 2 and the hugely popular Modern Warfare 2. Before we take bets, go on over to BAFTA GAME award and make...

The 1980s; the era of spandex, electro, mobile phones the size of house bricks, and a dark time for the video games industry. This was the era of the 1983 Game Crash: A predominantly North American phenomenon that would cripple the gaming industry for two years. So what the hell happened? Well as a starting point, Atari had quite a major role in this...