Downloadable titles and pricing structure
Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »Pricing of video games is a fairly contentious issue, particularly for us down under. In a country where $100 is the RRP for many video games, Xbox Live Arcade, Playstation Network, and WiiWare/Virtual Console titles seem like a pretty good ...
MadWorld: Now that’s original
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »And a great idea, at that. It really looks like you're playing a black-and-white comic book, which slightly dampens the ultra-violence that occurs in the game. And it's pretty damn violent. Looking forward to this ...
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 ...
E3 ‘08 — it begins
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Gadgets, Games | No Comments »Well, you are probably well aware, but E3 is here. Info has been coming thick and fast, and it's all pretty much repeated all over the shop. In my limited coverage, I will link back to my favourite source, which ...
Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe — All kinds of awesome
Sunday, July 13th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »And here's the proof. I was under the impression that the last Mortal Kombat (Annihilation) was to be the last MK title, but it seems that it was possibly just the last of the standard ...
Wii Platformer: Wario!
Friday, July 4th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »First came across this at Kotaku, of course. When I first read about it there, I wasn't sure what to expect. Platform games are great... Well, they were when I was 10. Then, after we became saturated by these kinds ...
Media Servers…
Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Posted in Gadgets | No Comments »I was rooting around online and i came across this article at iTWire, mentioning that Google Media Server is now available in Beta form for all your media server needs. The reason it made me post here is that I ...
Wii Lightsaber Game? Hmmm…
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »I'd like to say "hell yeah!" and scream for joy, but I'm just not sure. After reading about the upcoming Wii Star Wars game at PalGN, I was pleasantly surprised that it mentions that it was to be subtitled "Lightsaber ...
Power hungry gadgets [Updated]
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Games, News | No Comments »I should have expected this, but perhaps I'm a little slow, eh? A number of places (see Gizmodo and The Age for some examples) are reporting that many of today's little gadgets are costing consumers far more than they imagine- ...
Perfect Specimen for WiiFit Experiment?
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Games, Personal | 1 Comment »Me. I'm a big dude, and I should do a long-term WiiFit experiment. But I can't. Dammit. I need to lose weight. It's simple. I went to Japan and put on 35 kgs. I was already slightly overweight at that time, ...
WiiWare launches in Oz.
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »Yep, it's happened. I was hoping it would officially launch with Europe (as was expected), but there were no official word from Nintendo (as has come to be expected). WiiWare was launched today. And yep, I'm gonna get right on it, ...
The release of WiiWare
Saturday, May 17th, 2008 Posted in Games | 1 Comment »With WiiWare soon to be released across all Wii regions (although Australia, as usual, is yet to be given an official release date), Nintendo is now set to join Sony and Microsoft in the downloadable content race (if that is ...
Skating games and the Wii Balance Board…
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Games | No Comments »I have heard tell (here and here) that there are plans to use the Wii Balance Board for future skating games, the first being a Wii version of skate. Personally... I'm not sure what to think about this... I mean, ...
