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The brilliance that is Batman Arkham Asylum is getting plenty of playtime on my PS3 at the moment. Given that most movie tie-in's fall flat on their face its pretty astonishing its do good - but it's not strictly a movie tie-in. The design, style and story all relate more to the comic book than the films... which given that I prefer the recent movies with Christian Bale is a surprise … [Read more...]
I've been playing home! Yep there you go i've done it. I'm out of the closet. It's true I've been playing Home on the Playstation 3 and I've been enjoying it. Regular readers might recall me questioning the value of Home only a few months back, so have I changed my mind? In part yes... I have been playing Home and I have been enjoying it. But there are caveats: I still don't … [Read more...]
I don't think I could be any more unimpressed with the Playstation 3's 3.00 Firmware update if I tried. What the heck, lets give it a shot anyway... I knew party chat wasn't going to be launched with 3.00, so it wouldn't be fair for me to grumble about that... but that's not going to stop me. Every PS3 I owner I know wants party chat and that we still don't have it is a real … [Read more...]
Let's not beat around the bush here the PS3 demo for Batman: Arkham Asylum has me completely sold! I'm off into town tomorrow to Voodoo Consoles to see if I can pick up a copy a day early and i'll be taking in Killzone and InFamous to trade. What's so perplexing about B:AA is that it should be awful... afterall doesn't the third rule of video games state that all movie tie-ins are … [Read more...]
IL-2 Stormovik: Birds Of Prey For those of you who have been enjoying the aerobatic excitement when flying fighter planes in Battlefield 1943, you could do a lot worse than download the demo of IL-2 Stormovik: Birds Of Prey. The successful flight sim franchise has been a firm favourite with PC fans, and this new incarnation of the game is also being launched for the XBOX360 … [Read more...]
Some good news from EA's support desk for "Ben" the Irish Battlefield 1943 player who was denied his Irish identity by games publisher Electronic Arts, the full story which we first published here touched such a nerve amongst Irish gamers that it even made it to the pages of the gaming website Joystiq. The controversy all stems from this reply to Ben from EA... "We sorry to inform … [Read more...]
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