We got a Wii!

December 7, 2006

And in concordance with a previous post, wandrew broke the shade of our ceiling light because he didn’t realise how long his arms were.

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MMO Art

December 1, 2006

These guys create great custom artworks based on your MMO character: Tremendous amounts of time and effort go into developing characters for these online games, with no real way to capture these creations other than in-game screenshots. What we offer is the opportunity to immortalize your character forever in an original, personalized piece of professional [...]

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The Dangers of Wii

November 30, 2006

At 1up.com, there’s a post on the all the Wiinjuries you possibly face with all this groundbreaking technology, they include the Backhand Slash and Cancer. This one is Asymmetrical Body Development: [Edit: There’s a post on this at Penny Arcade which links to a real Wii complaint site called "Wii Have a Problem".]

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More PS3 Complaining

November 13, 2006

So the PS3 is to launch in March in Australia at two price points, $829 or $999. I’m not going to speculate on whether enough people will spend that much on it or not. What I do find weird is how little apparent price differentiation there is between the two offerings. I guess it’s a [...]

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Another article heralding PS3’s doom

November 11, 2006

Wagner James Au at Gigaom talks about PS3’s impending doom and points to graphs by Curmudgeon Gamer which show how Sony have overpriced PS3 and missed the sweet spot (which Wii hits perfectly). Much as I’d like to see Sony fall on their face after their pointless persecution of Lik-Saang, I don’t think it will [...]

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50 worst video game names of all time

October 27, 2006

Game Revolution has posted a list of the 50 worst video game names of all time. My top ten (in no particular order): Divine Divinity Wild Woody Catechumen* Beyond the Beyond Sticky Balls Booby Kids Wargasm Nuts and Milk If it moves, shoot it! Irritating Stick *”A catechumen is a person receiving instruction in the [...]

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Guild Wars guy talks money

October 26, 2006

Have been thinking of trying out Guild Wars for a while now, the screenshots look beautiful but I’m not sure I like the gameplay so much (they even refer to it as a CORPG – a competitve online role-playing game – rather than an MMORPG). Here’s an interview with the CEO, Robert Garriott on their [...]

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No Japanese Games for Europe

October 24, 2006

I don’t know enough about EU law, but it appears that they have some sort of provision against parallel trade of games. Anyway, a HK company has been banned from selling its Japanese games to anyone in the EU. Don’t know whether this includes games that aren’t available in Europe (what if you’re Japanese and [...]

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Virtual Tour Guides

October 23, 2006

The Synthravels Project is an experiment in virtual tour guidery. You can go on “amazing journeys in dreams worlds” with all the major online virtual worlds covered. You can go on a shopping tour in Second Life, have a dinner with Deathifier “the legendary owner of treasure island” on Enropia Universe, and discover the post [...]

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Your face in video games

October 14, 2006

If your ego takes a front seat to your desire for privacy, you can now put your face on your online character in Rainbow Six Vegas [via war and video games and ve3d]. From what I can gather it involves taking  head-on and profile shots with the Xbox 360 Vision Camera which should hopefully lessen [...]

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