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Game reviewing lost the plot

By Gavin Mannion
October 25, 2007
in :  Gaming, Reviews
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One of my regular readers, Andre Odendaal (Mailowl), emailed me this article that he wrote which I completely agree with. Take a look and let Andre know what you think. I believe game reviewers and critics are not being objective (and even subjective) enough in reviewing today’s games and they are just giving every new game that comes along their highest …

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Win PS3 games from Kalahari

By Gavin Mannion
October 25, 2007
in :  Gaming
3

As you know I love competitions and I saw another great one today being offered by Kalahari.net. They are currently offering you the chance to win 8 new PS3 games. Obviously there is a catch and the only way to enter is to buy one of the 8 games. But if you were looking at any of the following you …

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Unreal Tournament Trailer

By Gavin Mannion
October 25, 2007
in :  Gaming
8

The latest in the Unreal Tournament marketing drive is out, it’s a very nice trailer giving a bit of the story away and showing us some great visuals… Seriously though how did Marcus Fenix get into this game, you think they would have used a different model for the main hero… again. The cut scenes look very much like Gears …

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Top Gear Track hits Gran Turismo 5

By Gavin Mannion
October 25, 2007
in :  Gaming
5

In one of the best marketing moves of the year Gran Turismo 5 will feature the track from the popular TV series Top Gear in it. If you are a fan of the show then you know all about “The Stig” and you can’t honestly tell me that you wouldn’t want to have a go at beating his times around …

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Midway still struggling with PS3 development

By Gavin Mannion
October 25, 2007
in :  Gaming
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I think it is about time that whoever is in charge of PS3 development at Midway starts looking for a new job. Yet another story has hit the internet today claiming that Blacksite on the PS3 is still being plagued with development troubles. Midway are blaming it on the Unreal Engine, which is the same excuse they used for Stranglehold and …

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Zero Punctuation: Super Paper Mario

By Gavin Mannion
October 24, 2007
in :  Gaming, Reviews
4

 It’s Thursday (well nearly) and after the terrible PS3 news day we had yesterday I am glad to be starting today off with something completely un-PS3 related. Hopefully the Nintendo fans will be insulting me today instead of the PS3 fans, I have always liked change 😉 Seriously though once again we have Yahtzee giving us his strange but generally …

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US Sales Data for the week of the 20th

By Gavin Mannion
October 24, 2007
in :  Gaming
6

The latest sales data is in for the US and not much has changed since last week. Hardware Xbox 360 – 126,589Wii – 117,671PS3 – 23,405 SoftwareXbox 360 – 747,570Wii – 442,185PS3 – 172,486 I am sure all the PS3 fans are hoping the latest price cuts will make a difference to these figures next week, but at least they still …

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Ratchet & Clank Reviewed

By Gavin Mannion
October 24, 2007
in :  Gaming, Reviews
15

Gamespot has had the opportunity to review Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Desctruction and has some mixed feelings about the game. Getting straight to the point the good parts of the game are Shooting and platforming is always fun Lots of useful and different weapons Beautiful and colourful visuals Tight Controls The bad parts would be Uninteresting story Bad ending Game …

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