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Christmas Chains…
Christmas may be a time for giving, or even better, taking, but it is also a time that stirs up ghosts of gaming past like a sixpence in a séance’s Christmas pudding. Phantoms of more innocent times start to stir, times when you had to wait until the end of the year for those gaming [...]
Patches, Patches, Never Touch…
Despite me thinking I had scooped victory recently with the Sims 3 patches, neatly checking the obtuse launcher and the patch problem, I’m afraid I am heading for yet another reinstall of the wretched game. This will be my fourth. After finding the patches and manually downloading them from SimsPrograms, as mentioned in a previous [...]
Blue Thunder
Barely awake and blinking from a suicidal sweeping of curtains, I sit at my desk as always and fire up my PC, just like I do every day. It gets used for the lion’s share of the clock and is only left cooling in peace long after I have decided on my course of leisurely [...]
It’s Not Me…It’s You
Somewhere, somehow, I fell out of love and I don’t remember when. From an early age I championed Nintendo’s ugly grey boxes over the shinier, more exciting looking Segas, and on to shunning Playstation for the N64 and Gamecube…and it kind of stopped there. I suddenly realised that my Nintendos and I don’t actually spend as [...]
Paradise Lost
I’m Elite apparently. Not in any Heathers sort of sense, but because Criterion say so and after screeching around the streets of Paradise City in Burnout Paradise for months, I finally feel that I’ve earned it.
Ever since having my interest piqued at the Ready Up World record attempt back in April, I’ve sunk my time [...]
The Damned Elusive Sim-Panel
Another round of wrestling with the Sims 3 launcher had me spitting venom recently; just the sheer number of hours that I have spent just trying to patch the game and trawling the internet to see if anyone shares my woes is ridiculous. Given the time that has elapsed since I last tried to patch [...]
Sims 3 hates me…
After struggling with this wretched game for what seems an age, I am about ready to give up on the whole fucking thing and run screaming back to the familiar embrace of Sims 2. Putting aside my loathing of the new and more complicated way of doing…well, everything, it has been patches and updates which [...]
Preview: EyePet
After prowling the hall at Edinburgh Interactive 2009, all other games swiftly melted from my mind when I looked up at the stage and saw a strange creature bouncing happily on a trampoline. It was an EyePet. Like a moth to a flame, I was immediately drawn in, curious as to what it actually was [...]
Lament of an Apathetic Gamer
Such has been my crushing gaming apathy of late that even my desire to write about it has fallen beneath the slush of ‘meh’. A crippling syndrome which has dogged most of my gaming life since the middle of the SNES era has once more returned with a vengeance. Apathy. I just can’t be bothered [...]
Guiding Light
As gamers grow and age, ripening with the industry, so too does the paraphernalia that accompanies them. It seems to me that gaming guides are becoming the sophisticated coffee-table book for our hobby; not quite ‘Pre-Raphaelite Curves’ or ‘The Little Big Book of Shite Modern Art’, but they aren’t far off. If I wasn’t so [...]
