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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Last night I was invited to attend a UK PR event to show some games community bloggers and reviewers EA’s latest online RTS title Battleforge, which is currently in an open beta stage. Over the course of the evening I got to chat with the lead developer of the title, as well as its marketing [...]

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Everyone calls the Wii a ‘kiddie console’, and you can kind of see their point with a whole heap of ludicrously colourful shovelware titles sitting alongside Nintendo’s typically cartoony first party titles. But recently a number of exclusives have come along that are looking to challenge this reputation.

First out of the blocks we [...]

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Okay, let’s assume you’re an avid Sega fan for whom the recently released PS3 and 360 Sega Mega Drive: Ultimate Collection didn’t quite cut it either because of the pads or the game selection. Where do you go to get your gaming fix? Blaze International think they have the answer, a re-released region free Sega [...]

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Lagging behind in third place in the console wars, and persisting with a price tag that’s a little shy of double the market leader, it’s no surprise that game developers are putting pressure on Sony to drop the price of its powerful console.

According to Bloomberg, games developers are warning Sony that if they don’t [...]

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