Category Archives: Commentary

Playstation Internet Browser Now Capable of Italicised Text

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

Congratulations must go to Sony on this, the day of my daughter’s wedding release of firmware version 4.1 for finally enabling the browser on the PS3 to correctly render pages and the ability to not only render italicised text without … Continue reading →

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Playstation Backup: Abort, Retry, Fail?

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Recently, my PS3′s blu-ray diode gave up and died. Specifically that bit for some reason. Anyway, I did the sensible thing (or so I thought) of backing up the PS3′s hard drive before sending it off to the local shop … Continue reading →

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Silent Hill HD Collection – Silent Hill 3 Extras

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

Are there some? No, I don’t mean trophies, it will have those, hopefully reasonable ones. Nor do I mean the abundance of extra outfits you can open up by entering codes. I’m talking about the one thing missing from the … Continue reading →

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Amy Developers to Gamers – “AMY is a HARD game”

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

My thoughts on Amy are covered by my last post on the subject, but this statement from the people at VectorCell confirms one of my suspicions. Amy was intended to be hard with few checkpoints.

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We Deserved Amy

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Amy was a promising new release for 2012′s promising first quarter in which we were to be treated to several horror games. It was universally panned. Did it deserve to be so? Well, probably, but lots of games are praised … Continue reading →

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PC Gamers

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

So it seems that due to a run of bad luck, I am down to being a PC gamer, since the PS3′s media drive has died. Now I have to do the requisite things. Like complain that the gaming industry … Continue reading →

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown by Firaxis Games (2012)

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

Of course, if they gave it a new title, I wouldn’t have to include the year. As I suspect was the case with most people who played the original X-COM games, the original announcement of a new X-COM game was … Continue reading →

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Next Generation Features & A Reply to IGN

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

I co-wrote a couple of articles recently. Next Generation Features – With a rapidly approaching next generation of consoles, it seems like a good time to look back on the last generation and the lessons we have learned from it … Continue reading →

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Year’s End 2011

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

Well, what a year it has been. Nothing, then stuff, then a lot of nothing, then lots of stuff again. The release schedule of games I’m interested in is always weird, but that’s the way it works when we have … Continue reading →

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Name one thing that Bing does better than Google

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

I read this challenge recently, and I accepted. Link copying. Let’s do a search in Google and Bing for “skyrim gamebryo”. Hover your mouse over the first search result and the direct link to my website pops up. Right-click, copy … Continue reading →

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