Posted on Sat, April 26, 2008 by Peter
As with the launch of every GTA game since the start of time GTA IV has been receiving all the publicity it needs from those people who want to rid us of its evil.
On Tuesday Rockstar’s latest incarnation of the free-roaming game of all free-roaming games hits shelves in shiny boxes for the XBox 360 [...]
Filed under: Gaming | Tagged: Grand Theft Auto, GTA IV, Violent video games | 2 Comments »
Posted on Sun, April 20, 2008 by Peter
Now TFL have never been my favourite transport company and I think they may be about to fail miserably at yet another scheme. They have a nice slogan “TFL together for London” however unless I am greatly mistaken they are working more for themselves than they are for London.
They bring in the congestion charge to [...]
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Posted on Tue, April 15, 2008 by Peter
There are so many game releases every year that it is hard to know whether a game is worth buying or not, and upon seeing the list of top 100 games that have been sold in the past year it becomes clear that if you have a well known name you can sell anything.
The full [...]
Filed under: Gaming | Tagged: First Person Shooter, Gaming, Halo 3, Okami, Top 10 | 1 Comment »
Posted on Fri, April 11, 2008 by Peter
The answer, as if you didn’t already know, is when you have Deuteranopia. That’s colour blindness to you and me, more specifically red-green colour blindness. And there was an article published yesterday at ars technia regarding how this affects gamers.
Now us gamers like to think we’re very special people because we know when a door [...]
Filed under: Gaming | Tagged: Colour Blindness, Game Design, Video Games | 1 Comment »
Posted on Thu, April 10, 2008 by Peter
It has been a while since I made a post about cricket, but today the new editor of Wisden, Scyld Berry, had a piece in The Times regarding the effect that the new 20 over game may well have on the county game.
Now, I will admit that T20 cricket has been a good element in [...]
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Posted on Wed, April 2, 2008 by Peter
A question that I have been asked a few times is ‘why don’t you think people can chose their own religion?’, even if it is sometimes worded differently. My honest answer is that I do.
The most recent question was in relation to the Church of Scientology and my stance on what Anonymous are doing. I [...]
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