20 million dollars of trade in ten days? Woah. I seriously need to get into this business...
Interesting. As a consumer, do you want to buy a game you'll probably never finish? Every game has a wall - a point at which it suddenly becomes extremely hard and takes a considerable amount of deaths for you to work out how to get through it, bad ass bosses and the like - and it used to be, even ten years ago, that once you'd spent a few hours failing to get any further you'd just give up and not play it anymore. But that's not the case today, there are still points in games where it's tric...
Movies are obsolete? Get out of it! They're the top dogs of non-interactive media!
You find me a game which I can curl up on the sofa with my wife for an evening and relax in front of and then I'll start listening, but until then I'll continue to believe films are not destined for the gutter.
Okay fanboys, commence bitter arguments about which console is best.... Now!
Smart arse comment number 2: They lived under Bush junior for all those years, they've got to have some kind of compensation.
Sorry, did you just say a publishing company knows what it's doing when it comes to online media? Ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
No they don't. No one does.
Still begs the question: are you going to pay for online news and reviews of games when you can get them elsewhere for free? And if you say yes to that then you're in an extremely small minority.
I'll only believe this is true if it also works the other way round…
Having said all that, the net also allows anyone to write totally boring copy and get it out there. So ya boo sucks to the net for it's total apathy towards quality control.
Quick, somebody re-write Catch-22 based in the cyber world...
This loss of personalities in videogame journalism is nothing new. It happened to the world of music writing and no doubt it happened in film writing too. And there's a reason for that. With videogames, as with music, what was once a place purely for fans became, once the big publishers saw a cash cow and moved in, a properly run publishing industry. Way back when I was a teenager both music mags and videogames mags were written and published by the fans. They lived a lifestyle far removed fr...
1,000 points to the first emo band that names itself after this game
Get your pot shot guns at the ready - they all blur into one for me, accompanied by the thought: why am I playing this?
Ready, aim...
Left 4 Dead 2 a great game? Hmm, I'm not with you on that...
Wow indeed.
I used to work with a guy who was the epitome of Victorian Dad from Viz - I have to send this link to him, see if I can convince him it's a good idea to send in a snap!
Wouldn't it be good if they developed a role playing game based entirely around running a pub? You know, not your ordinary pub, a kind of crims meeting place pub - it would be a hive of criminal intent. A hub pub...
Or you could hope the world comes to its senses and stops mucking about with the common man's life by speculating on global markets....
Blame the internet! I do. It's destroyed writing as a career option, and not just for videogames but for almost all areas. Too many cooks are spoiling the broth.
Price - that's all that matters to gamers like me. I don't want my console to do anything other than play games on, and I'm not prepared to shell out huge wads of cash for it. Not wanting to start any tired old this one's better than that one is - both the xbox and the PS3 are pretty much the same when it comes to processing speeds and graphics and whatnot, so I went for the cheaper option. You can dangle whatever extras you like in front of me, I'm not going to bite. And, aside from the hard...
What I want to know is, when is a videogame going to come out that has the basics perfected - you know, like going to the toilet, tying your shoes and brushing your hair...
Doesn't say much, does he, other than "it's better than the last one"...
I don't need the box. I don't have the space in my house to keep them all, along with everything else that I've accumulated in 25 years of music, games, films and books love. However, I'm not too sure about the storage of a game, keeping it on the hard drive isn't that cool if the damn thing breaks or something.
Wouldn't it be a good idea if someone came along and invented some nifty storage device that looked like a game box but was indeed a drive? T...