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1. Opinion: Payday - The $15,100 PlayStation 3

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Friday, 17 November 2006

   Myself and Wolfgang Gruener have just sat, with our mouths agape, as a Playstation 3 bidding war on Ebay reached $10,001.00 a few minutes ago. We nearly fell off of our chairs when it went to $15,000 ...

2. E3: Los Angeles Is Dead. All Hail E3: Las Vegas

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Saturday, 12 August 2006

   It was bound to happen. We predicted it would happen. It's happening... E3 has been shrunk down to size, and now somebody else wants to replace it with a new show, exactly the same as the old one. Big, ...

3. Console gamers paying for promotional materials, PC users make faces

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Saturday, 05 August 2006

   The console makers are on to a winner with these so called "micro transactions", providing relatively cheap add on content for games via digital download. Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace is the first ...

4. Educating kids with video games - a laudable, but doomed, idea

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Tuesday, 01 August 2006

   According to a recent Ipsos MORI poll in the UK, three in five 11 - 16 year olds are in favour of using video games in the classroom. I'll let Eurogamer break down the numbers for you, but suffice to ...

5. Team Fortress 2 and the Resurgence of Class-Based Gaming

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Monday, 17 July 2006

   Yaknow considering how much we in the tech press like to have a go at 3D Realms over Duke Nukem (it'll take) Forever, I think that Half-Life creators Valve get off extremely easy for their own vaporware ...

6. "Now son, are you sure this will work on your PC?" Mam, it's an Xbox game...

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Saturday, 08 July 2006

   I like restaurants when they're quiet, like when you've left a movie at 11 pm and you slip in for a plate of chips (fries, yank.) But I absolutely, completely and utterly, unequivocally, bloody well hate ...

7. There's No Such Thing As Enough Hype In Gaming

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Saturday, 01 July 2006

   If there is one thing that video games are not particularly good at doing, it is convincing storylines. If there is one thing that the video game industry likes to think that it is good at meanwhile, ...

8. The Annual Game Drought - Not So Bad This Time?

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Saturday, 24 June 2006

   My sincerest apologies dear readers for the lack of a Saturday Gamer in recent times. I can assure you that it wasn't the football (soccer, yanks) that has made me become so lax in my duties of late. ...

9. Hit Me, Number 47

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Sunday, 04 June 2006

   I've watched very few videogame franchises develop and mature quite so well as the Hitman series has done over the past six years. In 2000 we got Hitman: Codename 47, a promising title which pitted you ...

10. E3 2006 in a nutshell

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Saturday, 13 May 2006

    E3 is generally a themed event, with one or two issues dominating the whole proceedings and all other facets orbiting around this. This year as well as last it was the consoles which ruled. Two years ...

11. And on the 366th day, the Lord said: Bugger, me hard drive just failed

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Saturday, 06 May 2006

    ... that may change my opinion forever. In early April the hard drive on my Dimension XPS 300, with a lovely extended warranty on the lovely expensive invoice, started to get a tad erratic. The SMART tool ...

12. A solution to the videogame refunds question

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Saturday, 22 April 2006

    The issue of returning videogames for a refund is one I touched on when speaking with Rob Wright on the issue of games testing, or "trying before you buy." These days an awful lot of, if not all, stores ...

13. Half-Life vs Half-Life 2: No comparison?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Saturday, 15 April 2006

    Comparing old games to new ones is a tricky business. On the one hand if you compare Doom to Doom III nowadays, well, there is no comparison. Doom is fairly 2D to the modern gamer in many more ways than ...

14. To buy, or not to buy? Your answer, for ten pints...

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Saturday, 08 April 2006

    ... touch typing and whom I turn to for the expert opinion on such matters - also likes it. As far as he's concerned, any RTS is the same as the next bar look and feel. He plays the system more so than the ...

15. Opinion: Xbox 360 launches in Europe

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Friday, 02 December 2005

    Microsoft's Xbox 360 launched in Europe to much fanfare and applaud last night, and despite the fact that most shops sold out in about 30 seconds there haven't yet been too many complaints from European ...