Sony Press Conference
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »Finally, the last of the press conferences. Sony's conference was about as long as Microsoft's (that is, too long), but it was full of hugely impressive games, and some minor announcements. Of the three, I found it to be the ...
Nintendo Press Conference
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »Well, it's the second day, another busy day, and two conferences were held. Here we have a summary of Nintendo's presser, the shortest of the three, and the quickest to the punch. It was very simple, and Nintendo really only ...
Microsoft Press Conference details
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »OK, here goes. There was a lot of info in this press conference -- as always -- and I tried to cover it all... But then my connection died and I couldn't watch the last 20 minutes... So here is ...
Quick Rock Band 2 update
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »Rock Band 2. Sigh. Harmonix are Jerks. Anyway, some new news (well, it was new yesterday, but someone had some lame work gig to attend) at Kotaku describes some new aspects of Rock Band 2. Not much applies to me at ...
Fallout 3 denied!
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »Cue Mike Myers from the Wayne's World days: Denied! As reported in several places on the net (check Kotaku, for an example), Fallout 3 has been refused classification in Oz, and, as we all know, being Australian we get the ...
Big Brother Update 3
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Movies/TV | 2 Comments »Big Brother is soon to finish, and really, since my last BB post, I haven't been too interested. Nobbi was my favourite, so I was a little disheartened with the voting public, as may be evident from the last post. ...
PS3 update 2.41 available now in Oz
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Games | 1 Comment »Update 2.40, which was released last week, caused a fair bit of controversy when a whole bunch of PS3 users complained that it 'bricked' their consoles. Not me, mine worked like a charm... But I won't discredit the fact that ...
Xbox 360 price drop
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Posted in Games, News | No Comments »You may or may not be aware, but the Xbox 360 is now the cheapest console available in Australia. Well, the core system at least. At $349, it is not a terrible price, and may pick the sales of the ...
Regional price discrepancies…
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Posted in News | 1 Comment »We all know we pay shitloads more than the rest of the world for certain products -- video games, CDs, DVDs, the list goes on. Well, it might not, but at least these three are things we pay more for. ...
Sigh. Rock Band 2 announced.
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »Ok, I'm not gonna pretend i didn't expect this to happen, I just didn't expect it to happen so soon. Due for release towards the end of the year (as early as September for Xbox 360), I'm kind of hoping ...
TV coming to PlayStation 3
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Gadgets, Games | No Comments »I've been out of Oz for some time now, and as a result, I am not much of a TV watcher anymore. In Japan, I watched most of my favourite shows streaming online -- not the most legitimate of methods, ...
Australians, healthy?
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »How strange is it, that in the space of one week, you can hear reports that Australians are now the fattest nation in the world, and other reports that Australians are among the healthiest in the world? Quite strange, but ...
Possible consensus on the whaling issue
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Japan, News | No Comments »I don't like to comment on much of the political news that occurs with regard to Japan, mainly because I have vested interests and it may come across as somewhat biased -- which is, of course, perfectly fine, as all ...
