Game Immersion: Mafia 2 & Red Dead Redemption

Mafia 2 - Oozing Style

A couple of weeks ago I would have told you that Red Dead Redemption was the game of 2010 (So far!). It's beautifully crafted environments and characters had me so totally sold that since it arrived in the shops in May it's been the only game I've kept putting back in my PS3 on a regular basis... so much so that in Multiplayer I am the proud owner of three golden guns. But then … [Read more...]

Wirelessly share videos between my TV and iPad? Yes please!

There are rumours of an refreshed Apple TV box

There's been a lot of internet chatter about a possible refreshing of Apple's TV box, much of it centring around a claimed name change to iTV, a price drop to $99 and the prospect of 99cent downloads for our US cousins, but surprisingly much less thought about where it fits into Apple's wider ecosystem. Until I bought my iPad my mobile video use consisted of nothing more hi-tech … [Read more...]

Revisiting SeeSaw

seesaw

Earlier this year I got an invite to join a pre-launch beta version of the SeeSaw online TV service, at the time the range of available content was a little unimpressive (though I seem to recall it was all available at no cost) and my usage of it stopped pretty quickly. Recently I was asked by the firm’s PR agency if I’d care to look again, including at the paid-for content … [Read more...]

Heartless

Heartless. © Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Jamie Morgan (played here by Jim Sturgess) wears a hoodie to cover a heart shaped birth mark on his face. He is a likeable character who is bullied by the local thugs who hang around the estate where he lives in London, they make his life hell. After a family tragedy he encounters the sinister Papa B (played by Joseph Mawle) who offers to miraculously remove his birthmark in … [Read more...]