Creative Expression Before The World Ends

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Games are better than movies and TV - this is just my opinion, it isn’t my fault it happens to be right. The interactive element of video games is something that can’t be matched by other artistic pursuits (aside from emulating traits of it) and technology is rapidly catching up to insane developer dreams. Except, [...]

 

Why Won’t You Just DIE Already?

Friday, April 17th, 2009

There are zombies everywhere. The gaming industry is bursting with extended franchises, long-running series, and ongoing characters - many of which started before some of their audience was born. It isn’t madness, of course - ontinuing an established brand has shown itself to be a crowd and pocket pleasing idea - but it does have [...]

 

Jak That S%&# Up To Eleven

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Platform games frustrate and infuriate me. I am too impatient, running in half-cocked and trying to soar across the lava pits like a magic eagle only to die horribly and repeat the act a half-dozen times. It’s the same urge that makes me blaze through to final bosses without levelling in RPGs and refuse to [...]

 

First of Many (Many)

Friday, April 10th, 2009

My first gaming experience was pretty inauspicious - although not to me at the time. I was about 7 years old and it was Christmas; my parents had been awesome and gotten me a state-of-the-art (sort of), brand new Nintendo Entertainment System. It was accessorised with a very shoddy and tiny colour television from a [...]