Bleepbloops on Xboxes and postings on forums;
Halo 3 lobbies and twitching right triggers;
Special Edition packages tied up with strings;
These are a few of my favourite things.
Sorry that was awful. I know what you’re thinking: why would special edition packages be tied up with strings? I’ll tell you why, because it rhymes thats why. I originally meant this to be my top ten things I like about gaming but when I realised I had more than ten I knew I was gonna have problems so rather than try to whittle it down to ten and then put it in some kind of order I figured I’d just give you a few of my favourite things about the gaming community as a whole.
funny you should mention that its out this week
I’m sorry, that title was a lie – these aren’t FAQs they are just Qs. Qs that you guys asked me recently on our Formspring page, so I’ve picked some of the best and decided to answer them here, a little like SentUAMessage from Xbox Live except none of the questions involve Call Of Duty or whatever conveniently happens to be this week’s Xbox Live Arcade release. Big thanks to everybody who sent them in (even the bolt question), it was actually quite fun to answer them; they are all good questions and, for me, one of the best things about games is talking about games intelligently with other gamers; the proper gamers – not the 12 year old kids with gamertags like “xxx BeA5T K1LLER xxx” that send messages to Pointyhead, and the other one, that go “wenz teh next cod out coz i wanna be playin it innit”.
Needed a cool wallpaper but couldn’t find one so I made some – figured I might as well share um
featuring all your faviourte dev’s including that bloke moly-o-nex
props to Dave for the find
via my buddy otter – go look at his blog you bastards http://flylikeamouse.tumblr.com/
O'rly? well I never thought of playing that.
Something unprecedented is happening. Not happened, but happening. The Fanboys are forming a coalition, a new form of government (I’m not going to pretend I understand politics so I won’t make a fool of myself trying to come up with a snappy topical joke based on the UK government). We don’t seem to be fighting as much as we used to, it’s more like “I say, is Uncharted 2 as good as they say old chap?”… “Why yes it is, very very good story and direction with some simply spiffing cinematography. What do you know about Halo Reach? That game looks like it could be wonderful”. That’s wrong, we never used to talk like that. What happened to the days of chanting “Where’s your dualshock gone? Where’s your dualshock gone?” or “Installed any good updates lately?” and let us not forget the Sony fanboys favourite “huhuhuh how many Xboxes you had now?”. The Battles of old are becoming nothing more than war stories, tales of wit and one-upmanship. We are now united against a common enemy and we have a new name: “The Core.”
Now to first be a member of “The Core” you need to have been a fanboy. After that, there are a number of ways to get into “The Core”.
- You need to know what “The Core” is.
- You need to have been to a midnight launch for a game or console.
- You need to get excited by E3.
- When you have had only £40 left and no food, you spent it on a game.
- You buy the special expensive limited editions.
- You look at the same gaming sites more that once a day just to see what’s new.
- You know the words to at least one cut scene from three different games.
- You need to know why the cake is a lie and not just overheard a member of “The Core” mention it.
It's like the set of the Graham Norton Show
Just a short run down on my thoughts of last nights Microsoft Keynote from E3.
So what happened?
Microsoft opened the show with the new Call of Duty Black Ops trailer and an on stage demo. Now I understand why they opened with it – it is, after all, the biggest selling game franchise (or any franchise) of recent years but it could have been done better, with fireworks and stuff! After the trailer, a guy from Treyarch walks out and shows us footage of him crouching through a tunnel. Then “in the interests of time…” he throws a few grenades at a few blokes stood near a chopper and nicks off with it. Well I say nicks off with it, it was an on rails shooter section and, well, I’ve seen plenty of those. For COD fan boys it may have been big news but nothing that impressed me.
