Articles tagged with: Videogames
Guff About Videogames: Six Days In Fallujah
Owing to spectacular speculative reactions from reactionary types in a typical fashion, Konami have decided to pull their support for the upcoming Six Days in Fallujah, currently being developed by Atomic Games. One more tally mark for the column entitled 'things that we expected to happen, but kind of hoped wouldn’t as it’s a bit of a rash, daft and kneejerk decision, much like the reactions of those who commented on the story to the usual tabloid rags'. We’re working on the title of that column.
Owing to spectacular speculative reactions from reactionary types in a typical fashion, Konami have decided to pull their support for the upcoming Six Days in Fallujah, currently being developed by Atomic Games. One more tally mark for the column entitled 'things that we expected to happen, but kind of hoped wouldn’t as it’s a bit of a rash, daft and kneejerk decision, much like the reactions of those who commented on the story to the usual tabloid rags'. We’re working on the title of that column.
Guff About Videogames: Relentless Stupidity Edition
It’s difficult to think of awards to give for the dumbest gaming stories to come out of the news in a week, seeing as there are so damn many. While we think we managed to get through a week without any stories on how gaming is going to destroy us all, there are still the obvious little snippets here and there that pop out and make you sigh/laugh like a particularly twattish hyena.
It’s difficult to think of awards to give for the dumbest gaming stories to come out of the news in a week, seeing as there are so damn many. While we think we managed to get through a week without any stories on how gaming is going to destroy us all, there are still the obvious little snippets here and there that pop out and make you sigh/laugh like a particularly twattish hyena.
Guff About Videogames: April Fool
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 brilliant send-up of said pots of twit, then went on to become an actual in-game item. Brilliant. It’s a sign that it isn’t just the BBC and hecklerspray that pull out incredible April Fool’s’’s’.
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 brilliant send-up of said pots of twit, then went on to become an actual in-game item. Brilliant. It’s a sign that it isn’t just the BBC and hecklerspray that pull out incredible April Fool’s’’s’.
Guff About Videogames: The GDC
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, it’s still disappointing that we didn’t get any HUGE, LIFE-CHANGING announcements. Like a new add-on for the PS3 made of human thoughts.
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, it’s still disappointing that we didn’t get any HUGE, LIFE-CHANGING announcements. Like a new add-on for the PS3 made of human thoughts.
Top 5 Best & Worst Star Wars Videogames
But what does all this talk do? Well, it reminds us of all the Star Wars crap we've had rammed down our throats for three decades. Specifically, it reminds us of Star Wars videogames and how mixed a bag they've managed to be over the years. Some have been that good that you can't help but immediately fornicate with the disc/cartridge/arcade machine (risky as the latter may be, with it being a public situation), whereas many more have been so bad it makes you wish Hitler had won.
Star Wars, Star Wars, Star bloody sodding Wars. It's still everywhere, even though it's supposed to have finished and Lucas is supposed to be firmly locked in his ranch rolling about on his vast piles of money while dressed as Jar Jar sodding Binks.
But no, he just can't leave it alone. Sodding sod. There's the upcoming not-a-movie movie, the TV series (The Wire crossed with Star Wars?! Yes please, thanks) and the new videogame The Force Unleashed all on the horizon, and it's unlikely that things will slow down any time soon.
But what does all this talk do? Well, it reminds us of all the Star Wars crap we've had rammed down our throats for three decades. Specifically, it reminds us of Star Wars videogames and how mixed a bag they've managed to be over the years. Some have been that good that you can't help but immediately fornicate with the disc/cartridge/arcade machine (risky as the latter may be, with it being a public situation), whereas many more have been so bad it makes you wish Hitler had won.
