I recently received a rather morbid phone call from a good friend, telling me that his 5th console had come to its end. Coincidently this happened while I was compiling an article discussing console failure rates over the last year. While some might suggest that this is no coincidence considering the statistics regarding the slightly older 360 models, it did …
Sony’s ads have always intrigued me because despite the one or two good ads they manage to endorse they normally approve hundreds of the most bizarre, outlandish or just plain stupid adverts. Step forward exhibit Z3254, As you can see on the right we have a healthy young gamer which pretty much represents the PlayStations core target market. On the …
Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry has, through the help of a rather busy console repair shop, examined the failures that have plagued Microsoft’s Xbox 360, and more recently, Sony’s PlayStation 3. While the internet as a whole is well aware of the 360’s hardware problems, people are becoming increasingly aware of hardware reliability issues with the PS3. According to the repair outlet’s …
Joystiq has posted up a decent looking multiplayer trailer of the upcoming vertical shooter, Damnation. The video isn’t great with some obvious clipping, dodgy graphics and pretty average character movements but don’t let that fool you. The game is way worse than that, according to it’s early reviews that is. Last Updated: May 25, 2009
The last time that I came to you with a Captain’s Log, it was because MiDigital had miraculously called me after over a month to organise to collect my broken console and drop off the new amazing, happy one. Great stuff, I thought. You can only hope these days that when your replacement console arrives, it might be a Jasper …
The biggest story on N4G at the moment is a reworded article based on a previous article that based it’s assertions about the reliability of the Xbox 360 on old data. If that sounds ridiculous to you then we are sharing an opinion here. The Guardian newspaper in the UK has just published an article entitled The truth about the …
Don Reisinger over at CNET has published an article completely lambasting Blu-Ray and its future… What seems to have triggered this off is the fact that Blu-Ray actually lost market share last week and is now sitting at a utterly under whelming 8% of the market. However the news gets worse for Blu-Ray after that as a recent study has …
Traci Braxton husband was Kevin Surratt Sr., a longtime partner who stood by her …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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