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E3′s Finest Trailer

This is a new music-shooter from the chap who made Rez, Tetsuya Mizuguchi – it’s operated through Microsoft’s new Kinect motion-detection system and is meant to convey the sound-colour linkage of synesthesia. Sadly, as it’s colour-oriented, I’m aware that I’m probably never going to be able to enjoy this, in the way I couldn’t enjoy Space Giraffe.

I sincerely hope that this is all in-game footage – mainly because I can’t believe that it could all be rendered and because I’ve been hoping for something that’s a graphical leap forward, not in terms of quality necessarily, but in terms [more...]

That Mordin Moment: The Unusual Case of the Singing Salarian

To the tune of: The Element’s Song by Tom Lehrer

It’s 2010 and my jaw is hanging like it’s been wired open. I can’t believe what I’m watching on screen. The wise-talking pensive scientist / special operative who’s been fighting robots and aliens and stuff at my side, is… singing. And, in the deep darkness of the far future, in the lab of my one-of-a-kind spaceship in uber science-fiction action-game Mass Effect 2 what he’s singing is… Gilbert & Sullivan? Particularly a parody of a Modern Major General.

It’s 2007 and I’m munching on a buffet at Bioware’s offices in [more...]

Red Write Hand

To the tune of Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

I gone and done wrote something, hic:

I’m Big Daddy Delta, terror of Rapture, splitter of splicers, defender of the weak, diving suit fetishist extraordinaire. I’m stuck on one side of a door, there’s a broken window and a yellow glowing switch a few feet away. I have a clever hacking dart gun, which requires my simply pressing a button when a needle on its meter passes through a certain colour. I shoot, I score… and get a mild electric shock. I repeat. Again and again. [more...]

Armchair Generals

Gameplayer – Australia’s Premier Gaming WebsiteFeature: The Armchair Generals – Official Xbox 360 Magazine It’s no fun being the odd one out. As the only team member with an attention span counted in hours rather than seconds, I’m regularly taunted in the office for loving PC strategy games. The other team members treat me as if I’m backward and nerdy; and it’s true I do love strategy games, tactical combat games, turn-based games. Yet there’s a shift going on, a shift of strategy developers towards consoles, both in the numbers being developed for the Xbox 360 and how they’re being [more...]

Online Review Summary List

I thought I might as well have a list somewhere of all the reviews I’ve done; I’ll update this when new stuff appears online.

PC Format Hidden & Dangerous 2 Day of Defeat Evil Genius EverQuest II Empire Earth II Fate Freedom Force Vs The Third Reich Freelancer Galactic Civilisations Guild Wars Ground Control 2 Homeworld 2 Hidden & Dangerous 2 Sabre Squadron Hidden & Dangerous 2 Heroes of the Pacific Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Knights of Honor May Payne 2 Medieval Lords Neverwinter Nights: Premium Modules Praetorians Planetside [more...]