Category Archives: Video Games

HOLIDAY FROM HELL: DEAD ISLAND XBOX 360 REVIEW, BY DEPUTY DRINKS

You may or may not know, but our ECH is something of a Zombie connoisseur, but he’s currently enjoying a well-earned vacation in San Francisco with his girlfriend. So, he has kindly handed over the keyboard to me to note … Continue reading

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MLB 2K11 WORKS ON UK XBOX 360

A lot of people are finding my site by searching whether MLB 2K11 works in the UK, so I thought I’d follow up the blog I posted a while back. Like all us UK-based baseball fans, I had to order MLB … Continue reading

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HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED ANNIVERSARY

I’m a fan of most of what you could call the arts, I love being witness to anything that came from a creative mind; anything that pushes the boundaries of originality. I’ve spoken here before of my belief that, in … Continue reading

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BECOMING A GIANT; ORDERING MLB 2K11

I made sure I went to a baseball game when I was in Boston in 2009. I had wanted to understand the rules of baseball since I was about 13, so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to … Continue reading

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FIVE KINECT TITLES TO FEAR THIS YEAR

If the current calibre of Xbox 360 Kinect titles is anything to go by, here is the sort of games we can look forward to over the next year. Royal Wedding Day 3D: The ultimate experience ahead of this year’s … Continue reading

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ROYAL WEDDING 3D AND BNP: SHORE PATROL; XBOX KINECT’S KILLER APP?

Now that the hype surrounding the release of Kinect has died down, it’s becoming clear that Microsoft’s motion-sensing device is in need of a killer app. So far it’s been a huge success shifting 10 million units worldwide – an … Continue reading

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VIRTUAL ACCUSATIONS

Addicted to Games? Panorama BBC, Monday 20.30 Are you kidding me? I shouldn’t be surprised, mind you. Some people believe that videogames are the source of all evil in today’s youth. I don’t know if this is true but I … Continue reading

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REVIEW: FALLOUT 3

­­ Originally written November 2008. The first hour of Fallout 3 was a disappointment. Having spent weeks reading about its vaults and relishing the opportunity to explore them, the sad truth was I couldn’t wait to get out of the … Continue reading

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REVIEW: F1 2010

‘With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go’ - Murray Walker F1 games have the potential to be massive, yet, apart from the first two outings in the mid 90s, the long-running F1 series of Sony’s … Continue reading

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