Australian video game news… amongst other things!

Aussies pay heaps more for games

Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Games, News | No Comments »

A few weeks back, I linked to an article about how we Aussies pay more for digitally-distributed software and music and the like, and commented on how we needed someone to look into hard copies as well. Well, it happened. Not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sharon Stone comments on China and Karma

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in News | 1 Comment »

Did you catch wind of this? On the UK Telegraph website, Sharon Stone was reported as stating that China may have had the recent Earthquakes due to Karma- as a result of their treatment of the Tibetan people. Wow. She must ...

On a personal note…

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Personal | No Comments »

Being married is hard enough (not in a bad way though, it's jut different... more on that to come). Working takes away a lot of my time in a day, then I have to exercise, and find some time to ...

Guitar Hero: World Tour- set your wallet on fire…

Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »

Damn. Competition sucks. Especially in the video game world. You see, the problem is, a lot of gamers are 20-something males on an independent salary. They can afford to buy whatever crap is released, and at whatever crazy price (no, ...

Chinese meeting with the Dalai Lama

Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

Finally, talks have resumed between representatives of China and those of the Dalai Lama, and it seems that they will continue over the next few days. It's interesting, you know, looking at how the two sides of the argument have changed. ...

China, protesters… ?

Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in News | 2 Comments »

What to do with China, eh? On one hand, they are a humungous country, with a huge population, that contributes tremendously to import/exports and world economy. On another, they are a humungous country with a huge population, and a long ...

Future of the Koala… Climate change is to blame (as usual).

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

As much as I don't like Koalas (I think they have stupid looking faces and are droopy, soul sucking jerks), it twanged the old heartstrings when I read this. Apparently, climate change is drying out the hairy little jerks' food ...