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My disillusionment with gaming
211 days 4 hours ago | by: BlackCountryBob
I got my first computer when I was just 4, a Commodore 64 with R-Type and Rainbow Islands among others. Who could really ask for more than that. Over the following years I had a variety of systems until I hit the mother load. My favourite gaming platform of all time was my PS1 which came with a copy of Soul Blade which I practically played to death. For me, gaming has never again reached the pe...
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Why do you care about sales figures?
439 days 12 hours ago | by: BlackCountryBob
It’s getting to that stage of the month that I dread, just a few days away will be the official release of the September console sales figures in the US. At the release of this news, every game site, blog and 2 bit hack will get themselves into a spin to syndicate and analyse the figures, a million articles of why Sony needs to cut the price of the PS3 and how Microsoft/Nintendo can own Christm...
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Does games journalism do gamers a disservice?
462 days 12 hours ago | by: BlackCountryBob
At the time of writing, Kotaku declares that they have made 42 posts in the past 24 hours (which one would assume includes much of Sunday evening as well as Monday) and N4G has had (in a entirely guesstimated count) over 60 articles published (based on 2 1/2 pages of posts working on 25 articles per page). There is no way to get around this, that is a lot of news. However, I am increasingly dis...
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Gimmicks are ruining games
465 days 20 hours ago | by: BlackCountryBob
I had to write this post now because I am just bloody furious right
now. I just downloaded and played through the demo of “Fracture” and it
was one of the most hateful experiences of my life. Being honest, I
didn’t like the game one bit, its not because I have something against
3rd person shooters or even that I hated the deformable aspects of the
environment; I loathed that the gimmi...
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Will Spore and LBP expose the limitations of games journalism?
482 days 21 hours ago | by: BlackCountryBob
Today is the first day of September and so the games rush is warming
up. After a quiet month or two where few games have been released (So
gamers filled our time with hype and rumour about those games about to
be released), there is about to be a torrent of games unleashed for our
collective gaming pleasure. Now while the old yearly updates will sell
about as well as usual and Gears o...
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GTA4 DLC - A disaster waiting to happen?
491 days 2 hours ago | by: BlackCountryBob
Remember back to those heady days of April 29th 2008; seems like a very very recent memory I am sure, but in video games it is a millennia ago. Back in those heady days, thousands of gamers worldwide waited outside games retailers at midnight to get their clammy hands on Grand Theft Auto 4. The GTA4 publicity machine had been in full working order for several months and gamers were positively f...
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