iRate: DLC Exclusivity and Me… A Hate/Hate relationship

Ah the joy of gaming… You finally sit down with the latest multiplatform release and let the gaming goodness wash over you, fully enjoying everything there is on offer. But hang on a second…There are bits missing aren’t there? It’s seems you can’t enjoy the same game as your rival console owners, not because of shoddy porting issues (we’ll save that for another iRate article), but because the developer has decided to sell off their reputation to the highest bidder and screw over around half of us gamers in the process. Oh well, at least they make a bit of extra cash…

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Thu, February 4 2010 » Articles, iRate » 8 Comments

2. Fallout 3

With all the merriness and festivities that came with Christmas and New Year, I thought I’d stop the world from exploding (you can thank me later) by balancing it all out with some good old fashioned anger and misery.

Yes you may accuse me of cheaply bashing “Fallout 3”just to provoke reaction and enrage people into commenting and emailing me in order to gain a few extra visitors to the site and you know what? You’re right (well partly).

I know how beloved “Fallout 3” is to a lot of you gaming folk out there, so beloved in fact that it’s spawned multiple DLC packs and a “game of the year” edition of the game. But I just don’t get it.

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Tue, January 12 2010 » Articles, Massively Overrated Games You Probably Should Avoid, X-Box 360 » 15 Comments

We Heart Achievements

Everybody loves achievements, right? Be they the achievements on Steam, World of Warcraft, the Xbox 360, or the Achievements covered in tin foil that are known as PS3 Trophies. The concept of the high score is nothing new to gamers, any one that spent their youth hanging around arcades trying to get on the leaderboards [...]

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Wed, December 23 2009 » Articles » 2 Comments