Buzzin Games

This month saw the release of Fuel, a racing game for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles from Codemasters. The hype was big.  But was it worth it?
Fuel, the press release told me, was built on ground-breaking technology to give the game a huge world of “atmospheric beauty and awe-inspiring size fully open to [...]

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I wrote quite a flippant piece about this for Tech Digest yesterday, but I think it needs a little more exploration.
Basically, ABC 17 news had this inflamatory article about sexual predators in games like Animal Crossing. There’s a lot of lovely, lovely misinformation in there, but two pieces stand out: firstly that your child can [...]

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Kotaku have done a good job of putting things into perspective. Yes, the DS has passed an impressive milestone in shifting over 100,000,000 consoles, but they’re still a long way behind the Playstation 2 on 136,000,000 and rising. And the venerable console that held impressive exclusives like ICO, God of War and the Katamari series [...]

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I had a chance to have a brief play with the Nintendo DSi today – the update to Nintendo’s incredibly popular DS Lite console. It’s currently only available in Japan, and is coming to the UK on 3rd April this year for an eye-watering £150.

Before I start, I should point out that it’s not [...]

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I’ve got to hand it to the gaming BAFTA people – they really have some excellent taste, judging by the nominees and winners of last night’s awards. Call of Duty 4 cleaned up, grabbing three of the awards, and there were also nods for Super Mario Galaxy, Fable 2, Boom Blox, Little Big Planet, Professor [...]

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