Don’t Just Tell Me A Story

Flat Out 2 is a racing game. In the single player career mode you drive in race after race, building up your cash reserves till you can afford a better car, unlocking special events and the aforementioned better cars as you go. At first glance there’s not much scope for a story there, and you’d […]

Its finally happened.

I have become disillusioned with videogames. I can hear the gasps now.

ISPs are not your friends

Internet Service Providers are great, or so you might think. Piping all the wonders of the web into your home for you to peruse at your leisure, allowing you to interact with friends and family all around the world. I’ve just found out (from my wife who has spent the morning researching these things for […]

Gamer Lays It Down

With industry luminaries bemoaning the state of the PC games market and prophets of doom proclaiming the death of PC gaming around the web, its nice to see someone who cares enough to tell the devs and publishers how it should be. I’m not going to add anymore to this, Mark says it all.

BBC Talks To EVE’s Economist

The BBC has an article up on its website about the role of Dr Eyjo Gudmundsson, CCP’s pet economist, and how the game could be used to model real world economics. As usual with the BBC coverage of gaming, they don’t really go into that much depth with the article but at least it is […]

New NIN Album Released Online

I apologise for the lateness of this news (it won’t be news to people who were paying attention) but this one completely passed me by, too much time spent in WoW methinks.
(Note: clicking on the ‘read more’ link will lead you to what looks like a broken page, this is due to the embedded music […]

Gary Gygax 1938-2008

There are unlikely to be many people who have influenced the culture of today’s gamers as much as Gary Gygax. His creation has become synonymous with role-playing games since it hacked and slashed its way into existence in 1974. An entire generation owes much to the imagination and creativity of Gary and the game known […]

EVE Online - Now Available on Steam

As announced, the largest online universe is now available through Valve’s digital delivery system, Steam. Go forth and get it now, a universe is waiting.

Simon Of Space is now available

Simon Of Space, by the author known as Cheeseburger Brown, from whose pen came The Darth Side and other great works of internet science fiction, has been published and is available from Amazon US, Barnes and Noble and direct from the publisher.

The Law of the Videogame.

Its sad really, that the rabid opponents of individual responsibility seem to have scored another victory in the war against grown ups making their own decisions. In an article in the Guardian on Saturday it was revealed that the government is to bring in a legally binding ratings system for games, not unlike the current […]

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