What’s with all the films?

Many of my posts are mini-reviews for the films I'm watching as part of the 2010 IMDb Top 250 Challenge. Read more here.
March 15th, 2009

Grand Theft Auto IV Spotify Playlists – Electro-Choc

Electro-Choc Spotify Playlist

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March 2nd, 2009

Grand Theft Auto IV Spotify Playlists – The Journey

The Journey Spotify Playlist

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March 1st, 2009

Grand Theft Auto IV Spotify Playlists – Liberty Rock Radio

Liberty Rock Radio Spotify Playlist

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March 1st, 2009

Grand Theft Auto IV Spotify Playlists – Radio Broker

Radio Broker Spotify Playlist

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March 1st, 2009

Grand Theft Auto IV Spotify Playlists

Spotify has become my main way of listening to music at home, though I’ll leave the discussion of that to another day.  I’m also playing ‘The Lost and Damned’ addon to Grand Theft Auto IV at the moment, which has inspired me to check out some of the bands on GTA IV’s many radio stations [...]

November 19th, 2008

First Impressions of the New Xbox Experience

Pros

It’s responsive. Downloading games to the hard disk is a fantastic feature, making the Xbox 360 so much quieter. The whole interface reminds me of the various media centre apps out at the moment, with context sensitive backgrounds and information. The mini guide that appears when you press in the Xbox guide button is [...]

September 25th, 2008

Rock Band 2 in the UK – November

EA is known for reaching new levels of diabolicalness with their extortionate prices for Rock Band 1 in the UK and releasing Rock Band 1 in other parts of Europe and Australia only now even though Rock Band 2 is out in the USA and was going for a a third by keeping silent [...]

July 17th, 2008

E3 2008

And so it that time of year: E3 is upon us, allowing us to gaze into the future at what games we will be playing this year and beyond.  The big three have had their press conferences, individual publishers and studios are demoing their wares and the big gaming sites are posting it all up [...]

January 27th, 2008

Videogame Concept Art

I am a sucker for gaming art books so I thought it’d be an idea to summarise some useful information I have gathered on the subject into one post. This is coming from the perspective of a fan here, apologies to any art/gaming students/professionals who disagree with my ramblings. Also note that while there shouldn’t [...]

June 20th, 2007

Video games: the new media boogeyman?

As you may have heard Manhunt 2 has had been rejected by the BBFC, meaning that it cannot legally be sold in shops in the UK*. I was going to write a post on the the topic of video game violence and censorship however soon afterwards the news came out that another video game, ‘Law [...]