Category Archives: Consoles & Gaming

Posted by: Nik Taylor Pick yourself a team of game-loving celebs, find another team of grizzled Halo 3 veterans, pitch the two against each other for a quick few matches of Halo: Reach multiplayer and guess what happens? Clue: the … Continue reading →

Posted by: Jane Douglas As this year’s E3 draws to a close, here are just some snippets of video taken around the LA Convention Center and on the show floor. By all accounts it’s been a spectacular show, much more … Continue reading →

Posted by: Jane Douglas These are the upcoming Wii and DS games highlighted by Nintendo at its E3 2009 media briefing, with the biggest surprise reveals being New Super Mario Bros Wii, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid Prime: Other … Continue reading →

Posted by: Nik Taylor You can now buy an Xbox 360 for under £100 – and from an unlikely source. Sainsbury’s has slashed the price of the Microsoft console by £30 – offering the Arcade version for £99.97. If you … Continue reading →

Posted by: Jane Douglas Good news for the PC gamers among us: Blizzard have revealed Diablo III, the newest entry in its popular action RPG series and follow-up to the award-winning 2000 game Diablo II. The announcement was made during … Continue reading →

Gaming’s unsung heroes is one of those rare articles that gets better and better as you write it. I’m not talking about my writing quality – but the concept. What started as a vague thought that Luigi doesn’t get the … Continue reading →

Fair play to TFL – my article about privacy erosion contained a reference to the fact that Oyster cards could be used to track people’s movements. However, the Transport For London press office have contacted me to tell me that … Continue reading →

Last week, the people at Ubisoft unveiled their minimum specs for the PC version of Xbox 360 smash Assassin’s Creed – and they have to be seen to be believed. I took these from C&VG’s site… · Supported OS: Windows … Continue reading →

 http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf Video: MSN: Mario and Sonic at the Olympics comes to DS Bookmark with:  Digg   del.icio.us   Reddit   FaceBook   Newsvine   StumbleUpon 

It’s a bit of a journalistic no-brainer that at the end of the year you write your retrospective stuff and at the beginning you go into full on prediction mode, so following my tech tips I thought I’d put together … Continue reading →