How ironic. I can provide a feed to Next Generation Online on my own site (see the Games feed on the top nav-bar) but, at work, I can’t visit the site itself. These restrictions allow me to see the world of videogames news from the perspective of your typical shoot-first-ask-questions-never gamer: Sony Admits PS3 Delay…
Month: February 2006
Somebody pinch me!
Am I dreaming? Surely I can’t be living in the real world. A rational world. A world that’ll defend it’s right to put guns into the hands of the irresponsible but condemn videogames on the basis that pixels pulled the trigger? Just when you thought you’d seen it all: Utah votes through bill on ‘obscene’…
Gently does it
You know, I really enjoy games, but I absolutely love the industry and culture. With 2005 and Hot Coffee going around I find myself reading GamePolitics at lot more than I used to. As it suggests, it’s about games and the real world rather than scoring some interview with Miyamoto. A short piece on the…
GTA – Now offending a prostitute near you
It appears that, however shakey your moral grounding may be, you can always point at GTA and claim it offends you. Game Politics (another miraculously unblocked site at my POW) presents a news piece that reports how sexual workers (not my phrase) are taking issue with Grand Theft Auto in it’s depiction of the treatment…
Mum’s Army
I’m of the firm belief that my employer has access to a range of books with titles like “How to de-motivate your staff” and “How to make a bad situation worse”. For the time being I won’t go into a full list of their actions (not whilst I remain employed there at any rate) but…
Breakfast on Pluto
The other week it was cowboys in love, this week it’s transvestite orphan irishmen! Cillian Murphy makes the most of his cheekbones and does drag astonishingly well without making it seem ridiculous. The story is about this square-peg-in-society’s-round-hole character growing up an orphan, searching for his mother, surviving on wits and optimism set against a…
A Cock and Bull Story
Ryan, this one’s for you.. ACABS is a film about making a film based on a book about making a book. I knew nothing of the original work other than it was being made into a movie and that such an endeavour had often been regarded as impossible. As a fan of both Rob Brydon…
Shadow of the Colossus – making of
Whilst this topic may seem somewhat premature for any european readers who, at the time of writing, are still waiting for the release of this game, this page is worth a look. Clickety click The page provides some detail as to how some of the eyecatching effects in this visually stunning game were conceived and…