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Guff About Videogames: April Fool

by Ian Dransfield

April Fool’s Day is rubbish once you’re past the age of about eight, but the games industry seems to have bucked this trend a fair amount. Look at Volition with their Ostrich Hammer, for example. What originally started as some dedicated gamers (read: twitpots on NeoGAF) slagging off Red Faction: Guerrilla eons ago became a [...]

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Guff About Videogames: The GDC

by Ian Dransfield

The Game Developers Conference (or GDC as we in the kool krew call it) has finished, and in its wake lies a great big pile of nothing much. While it is true that this is more the development wing of gaming shows, as opposed to the ferociously commercial events such as E3 and the like, [...]

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Guff About Video Games: OnLive

by Ian Dransfield

The way we all play games is about the be changed forever, thanks to a little something called The Phantom…

Oh no, wait – that’s an intro from a few years ago. Before things went on to stay exactly the same as they’ve always been.

No, this time they’ve announced something called OnLive – a system that is set to revolutionise the way we think about playing games, or something.

Our Cynic Glands are twitching with anticipation.

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Guff About Video Games: Violence Etc

by Ian Dransfield

Some things never change – Football Manager dominates entire days, Street Fighter IV records stay remarkably poor and games get blamed, once again, for murder. Now it has to be said that even we, the mighty ‘spray, draw the line at extracting the urine out of murder. For the time being, at least. But that’s [...]

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Guff About Video Games – Quake Live, Killzone 2, Racist Zombies

by Ian Dransfield

Hello and hello, and welcome to something new and hopefully regular that we at hecklerspray towers have been itching to put together – something about video games! Yay!

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Game Review: Halo Wars: Xbox 360

by Ian Dransfield

What happens when you have the Halo franchise, a good one that sells a ton, which is primarily the stomping ground of 14-year-old American boys?

Why, you release a more cerebral game based in the universe, obviously, leaving the world with Halo Wars.

That makes sense, doesn’t it? Brash, loudmouthed little Yanks love thinking, don’t they? Hmm?

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GAME REVIEW: You’re In The Movies

by Ian Dransfield

Those looking for a real game to sink hours of (apparently) wasted time into look away now – those thinking “wow, I really want to play the crap out of Fallout 3″ or “I love the pitched online battles of Gears of War 2″ should probably just go away.

You’re In the Movies isn’t going to appeal to you.

Right: now they’ve gone we can get down to business. We assume if you’re still reading this it means you know absolutely nothing about games, nor do you really care to know.

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Goodbye, Old Friends. Miss Me Not, For I Am Going To A Better Place (The Pub).

by Ian Dransfield

Well, I’m done now – you get Stuart Heritage back as of Monday. Covering life, love, death and destruction – as well as not realising some people had died, even though we’d reported that they hadn’t – I’ve had a fun three-and-a-bit weeks at the helm of hecklerspray. I literally have no idea how Stu [...]

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Quantum of Solace Pushed Back a Week, and It’s All Harry Potter’s Fault

by Ian Dransfield

Harry Potter has a lot to answer for – now he’s magically caused Quantum of Solace to be pushed back. Not content with ruining the dreams and emotions of a billion little kids and a lot of adults who probably should know better, Daniel Radcliffe and company’s decision to move the new Harry Potter film [...]

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Jerry Seinfeld Removes His Last Flake of Credibility. The Cost? $10 Million.

by Ian Dransfield

Jerry Seinfeld hasn’t really had to do much since his sitcom finished all those years ago. Still ranked by many as the ‘funniest thing ever’ and ‘really, really good’ and earning a hell of a lot of money for the people involved in it, Jerry Seinfeld obviously thought he could rest easy. At least until [...]

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