I played Need for Speed: The Run this past weekend, after looking forward to it for ages. My first attempt at completing the main section of the game took less than three hours. Five, if you include loading times. If you don’t know, “The Run” is a race across America, featuring a couple of hundred [...]
11 Nov 11
In the months since the launch of Kinect, Microsoft has been very careful not to use the term “hardcore” when referring to games being developed to support the device, and that’s definitely a fair shout. After just a few brief moments of searching though, you can find the self-proclaimed hardcore gamers (that Microsoft haven’t even [...]
13 Oct 11
For many people, the idea of running a website about videogames is an attractive one. They see the likes of the IGN, Gamespot and Eurogamer teams becoming minor celebrities in the gaming universe, and want a piece of that action. Some look on it as being a career choice. Whatever your reasoning, I’m hoping to [...]
03 Oct 11
A lot of folks are working under false pretenses. Looking over at the excellent GamesPress site (or their forums, to be specific), it seems that people tend to build a gaming website because they think they’re going to get free shit. Before they began writing articles about Let’s Fashion A Grand Piano Out Of Matchsticks [...]
28 Sep 11
I was skeptical about OnLive as a game platform, and have been since I first read about it way back when. I imagined getting angry with games as the servers lagged and my inputs were ignored. I imagined paying more than the general price for the PC versions of games that I was interested in. [...]
