Why We Love To Game

As much as I love it Bioshock will never really be remembered for its high concept ideas or the way it plays around with the lack of autonomy within an FPS. The legacy is Andrew Ryan, and Rapture, and in most cases it'll be remembered for that scene with the golf club, and for Sander Cohen and Fort Frolic. Bioshock 2 had Sofia Lamb and the Big Sister, and an even more dilapidated Rapture falling apart at the seams.  As faulty as either...

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Why Nintendo Were Direct

In just over 30 minutes Nintendo’s new ‘Direct’ broadcast managed to make a better case for the future of the Wii U than the entirety of the last 12 months and any of their recent E3 outings combined. Nintendo have always been a quite and secretive company but the release of the 3DS and now the Wii U had both been hampered by the lack of vocal advertising from the Japanese powerhouse. Nintendo have simply put a tablet driven device in front...

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Illumiroom

During Samsungs keynote at CES earlier this week, Microsoft unveiled their new IllumiRoom technology. Principally this turns the entire room around your TV into an extension of the screen itself. Microsoft’s official site confirmed that IllumiRoom uses the Kinect sensor and a projector ‘to blur the lines between on-screen content and the environment we live in allowing us to combine our virtual and physical worlds.’ This new technology...

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Pokemon X & Y

This week marked an important time in the handheld market as the Pokémon Company International and Nintendo official blew our minds with the announcement of new instalments in their key franchise. Interestingly the pre-announcement speculation was about a new movie or spin off title so this event went down even better than expected with the industry as a whole. Pokémon X and Y will mark the very first entries in the next generation of Pokémon...

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Making a Universe in WWE13

On Monday night I sat through my first WWE PPV for almost 5 years (excluding the yearly Wrestlemania event) and found myself wondering how the wrestling genre had progressed from the Smackdown and No Mercy games that ruled my life in on the N64 and PSOne. It was this intrigue that got me to pick up WWE 13 and this week I have been busily running through the ‘Attitude Era’ mode as well as the WWE Universe. As a teenager my evenings often...

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