Category Archives: gaming
Geronimo! Dr. Who Adventures
Cards on the table; interests declared beforehand; bribes quietly taken in a back-alley: I fucking love Doctor Who. As a character and a personality, he’s a constantly evolving, infinitely faceted character both instantly lovable and eternally distant. As a series, … Continue reading
Modern Warfare 2 and Digital Distribution
In case you somehow missed it, this week saw the release of Modern Warfare 2, a game that has comprehensively smashed every existing release day sales record, and looks set to become one of the best selling titles of all … Continue reading
Konami Game Rereleases?
A week ago, Gemini-Phoenix on the games™ Forum spotted something rather interesting on eBay: a number of sellers were selling new sealed copies of the hitherto somewhat rare ZOE2 where the box art had the brand spanking new 2009 PEGI … Continue reading
Tales of Monkey Island 1: Review
After years in the desert, Lucasarts is finally returning to adventure gaming and releasing titles in the ever-popular Monkey Island franchise. In their first episodic release, they’ve collaborated again with Sam and Max developers Telltale games to produce the Tales of Monkey Island. Continue reading
What annoys me…
That game developers insist on filling my Documents folder up with hundreds of folders bearing their company name, with the sole reason of storing their save files in those respective folders. There’s a reason that there’s a “Saved Games” folder, … Continue reading
Unfinished Games
Returning my University float of games to my shelf at home made me very sad about my ability to complete them. Without counting the games purchased on Steam, of these, I have completed only… erm… COD2, COD4, COD5, Half Life … Continue reading
Christmas Buyers Guide
Here’s the week 10 Boar article which once again I left writing until the very last second; and then some. Will thoroughly dealt with the first three platforms, whilst I wrote most of the latter three consoles’ recommendations; though I … Continue reading
Gaming on Demand
For some reason, I’ve recently expressed interest in writing for the new games section of the Boar. The first issue was pretty slick, with a review of a Wii title, Fable 2, a first impressions of Red Alert 3 and … Continue reading
Whoops!
Soo, I’m well back and well rested from a great trip to California. I’ve finally gotten around to uploading all of my photos, though tagging the final 40% of them just became a bit to much of a chore, so … Continue reading
Tekken 5 Rumble?
Namco will soon be re-energizing the PS3 version of Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection with a new update coming March 18. The update is set to bring on a few changes by adding gameplay modes, DualShock 3 rumble support, and doing … Continue reading