So I have had some time to test out quite a few games using the new install feature in the NXE. I wanted to determine just what the benefits were. Would the games load faster, how much quieter was the console and so on. I must say I’m rather surprised at what I’ve found and it’s led me to an …

Yes I have ragged on Killzone 2 for quite some time now but all that looks about to change. So why the change in heart? Well it has nothing to do with how absolutely amazing the game looks or the rave reviews that the beta testers are leaking, while those are good I am withholding judgement until it gets independently …

I was just over at the PS3 forums and I saw a posting from one of the Admins saying that Far Cry 2 is going to required a 3.5Gb install… You know this is my pet hate so there was no way I couldn’t post about it but really 3.5Gb is an insanely large install. I will be very interested …

So I posted earlier about the latest Eurogamer face off and you may have wondered then how I managed to restrain from talking about my pet hate… those idiotic installs. Well it’s because I wanted to add them all up and see how much of our 40Gb hard drive space would be taken just by playing the games in the …

Back to one of Lazy’s favourite topics. Personally I don’t mind if installs are optional but mandatory installs completely defy the object of consoles. Luckily as it stands Microsoft doesn’t seem to have any plans of allowing mandatory installs. The latest comments go some way to prove that. Last Updated: September 11, 2008