Category Archives: News

Return Of The Macs. All Of Them.

We all know there’s something of a cult around Apple. The temple-like stores, the zealotry of the fanboys, Jobs as a weird Wizard of Oz / Jesus hybrid whose disappearance and resurrections over the last year have produced widespread hysteria … Continue reading

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My fellow Ambassadors, 3DS that is, NES games ahoy

Greetings my fellow 3DS Ambassadors, you may have noticed some talk yesterday about the free NES games already available to us on the 31st, well when I checked they weren’t, not here in the UK anyway, but today you should … Continue reading

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Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life, Guardian Heroes release iminant

Earlier today @majornelson tweeted that the Guardian Heroe’s release for XBLA was as early as tomorrow, this has now been updated to NOT being released tomorrow. Original developed by Treasure on the Sega Saturn console, this re release has been … Continue reading

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Ah, what a shmup

Radiant Silvergun, one of the most expensive Japanese only Sega Saturn games is coming cheap to a Sega Saturn Xbox 360 near you. Available for 1200 MS Points this September 14th via XBLA. This remake of a golden classic will have … Continue reading

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The US gets a free Orchestra cd with Skyward Sword, but what about us?

Over at Nintendo.com there’s news as far as the states is concerned that the first batch of The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword for the wii will come with a free cd of select tracks from the upcoming recordings of … Continue reading

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Jobsy resigns as ceo of apple, yeah, that’s what i’m calling him

Seriously though, when you have health problems but can still steer a company to have access to more cash than the US Government, you’ve done well enough, you might as well leave it there and call it a day. The … Continue reading

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Live streaming is expensive, notch pulls the plug at 17000 viewer hours

Its been an interesting afternoon, i spent some time animating an awesome tornado in flash (i joke). While half watching (sorry notch) the live stream video feed of Markus Persson as he writes a dungeon explorer style game for the … Continue reading

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Driver San Francisco Demo is live and kicking

Check out that jackass, that’s what they say, classic stuff. They said the new Driver handles like the old driver, with the big heavy American muscle cars, and it does, i’m impressed, i’m thinking the single player is going to … Continue reading

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Less is more, right?

Both Sony and Nintendo have announced new models of their old consoles, that come with less stuff, and for more that what you would pay on ebay. The new PSP will have no wifi, but looks to be a lot … Continue reading

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Notch challenges Bethesda to a quake 3 match

Notch of Minecraft fame has challenged Bethesda to a duel, two 20 minute matches on quake 3, Mojang’s best 3 players vs Bethesda’s best 3, each select a map, total frags over both wins. This i’ve got to see, i … Continue reading

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