The Internet, it’s a marvellous invention isn’t it? Aside from changing the way we play games, it’s also revolutionised the way we buy them. Like it or not, the sheer convenience and ease of use is continually displacing high street retail (just ask ANY games retailer) until retail will cease to exist, at least in [...]
Tags: Grim Fandango, half life, Kickstarter, Kieran Roycroft, Lists, Parappa the Rapper, Vib-Ribbon, XIII
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Wed, May 9 2012 » Articles, List Articles » 3 Comments
I don’t go to arcades that often. Truth be told they’re a rarity these days and, what with times being so tough, you can hardly justify shelling out some of your hard earned pennies for so few lives. But on the odd occasion that I do venture in I am determined to make the most [...]
Tags: Adam Radcliffe, primeval hunt, sega, Why I Love
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Thu, April 12 2012 » Why I Love... » 4 Comments
Author’s note – for those of you who have been holding off reading anything about Mass Effect to avoid spoilers, rest assured, the entirety of this piece covers only the misery before the opening credits roll, so unless you are one of those people who really likes unboxing things you can read on fear free. [...]
Tags: bioware, EA, EA Origin, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 3, Sam Crisp
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Wed, April 4 2012 » Articles » No Comments
Since Mass Effect 3 is still taking much of my already depleted available time for games, I don’t have anything on hand to review, so what better time to share with you an issue that has been troubling me for a while now. Today we’re going to talk region-locking and artificial product boundaries. Before getting [...]
Tags: 3DS, DS, irate, Jose Luis Pérez Zapata, PC
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Thu, March 29 2012 » iRate » No Comments
As with Rax’s fantastic article on why he loves the ending of Mass Effect 3, this piece contains spoilers for not only the end of Mass Effect 3, but also, particularly, for the end of Mass Effect 2. Please don’t continue reading if you are looking forward to discovering either for the first time in [...]
Tags: Action, bioware, ClacTom, EA, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, opinion, PC, PS3, RPG, Sci-fi, Thomas Wallis, XBox 360
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Tue, March 27 2012 » Why I Hate... » 9 Comments