The folk stories of the Mabinogion are a mainstay of Welsh education, are rattling good yarns, and I’m sure contain glimpses of the roots of civilisation (what little I know about the Hindo Ramayana has strong echoes of the hunt for the Twrch Trwyth; a pursuit punctuated by transformations into various animal forms).
So here’s [...]
… and finally, from The Orange Box, Half Life 2. I have not approached the episodic Half Life 2 games yet.
Continuing my The Orange Box ramblings, let’s talk about Team Fortress 2.
It’s been a few weeks since I bought The Orange Box for the Xbox 360. I believe this single DVD package stems from Valve’s realisation that while they had a number of saleable products ready for Christmas 2007, none of them quite warranted a full price release. So, we get a bundle. On that [...]
Three years ago, I whinged about the missed opportunity that was Cyberball on Midway Arcade Treasures 2. Then, only a couple of weeks ago, I wished aloud for a version on Xbox Live Arcade.
Blimey, Midway react quickly. Today, games news sources suggest it will be released on Wednesday.
But I’m nervous. Microsoft’s official game page [...]
Many years ago, we had a party at our hovel in Birmingham, and Dan brought Super Puzzle Figher II Turbo for the Playstation. We had a go, and quickly decided that it was OK, but it lacked the purity and finesse of Bust a Move II, relying instead on the novelty presentation of [...]
Wednesday evening was set aside for Space Giraffe, although that was rudely interrupted when Debbie pleaded with me to let her watch Germany beat England at football again.
However, I think I got enough play under my belt to have formed opinions.
It continues to be very satisfying to look at, and I’m sure that without [...]
Before accepting a lift to work from Debbie, I found time to download the trial version of Jeff Minter’s Space Giraffe — available at last — and run through the tutorial mode.
Of course, having been following progress, I knew mostly what to expect, but this was the first time interacting with it, and the [...]
Crackdown is one of the games that made me want a 360 — because someone I trust described it as Grand Theft Auto with the boring bits taken out.
It’s an awful lot of fun. Many games have followed the GTA formula — free roaming city, gangster agenda, cause havoc, proceed through a series of [...]
A little over a week into Xbox 360 ownership, and I think it’s time to talk about Xbox Live Arcade or “XBLA”.
XBLA is a game download service for the Xbox 360. Microsoft has imposed a size limit on the downloads, and the games tend to be simpler (in various ways) than the kind of [...]