Buzzin Games

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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These are the game releases for the 30th May.
Nintendo DS
Monster Jam
Nintendo Wii
Kidz Sports International Football
Death Jr: Root of Evil
Monster Jam
London Taxi: Rush Hour
Playstation 3
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Race Driver: Grid
Xbox 360
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Race Driver: Grid
Monster Jam

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