Entries Tagged as 'Consumer'

Monday, June 1st, 2009

10 Awesome TV Shows That Should Be Made Into Awesome Video Games

After the astonishing (and entirely fictitious) success of my previous article, 10 Awesome Movies That Should Be Made Into Awesome Video Games – which became an overnight sensation, caused an internet breakdown, garnered several awards and proved instrumental in actually getting seven of the games mentioned greenlit by major developers, I thought I’d follow up [...]

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

10 Controversial Video Game Controversies

Since this topic has been blogged to death, I shall avoid the well-trodden Mortal Kombat/GTA/Manhunt route and focus on some of the more interesting and bizarre controversies that have been stirred up by the video games medium from its blocky, monochromatic emergence in the 1970s until… just about… now. (Oh yeah, it’s that fresh).
The entries [...]

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Shrunken Heads, Souls And Nightmares For Sale!

Trawling through eBay, yields some fascinating results, and after reading a few tales of the adventures of other eBay users, I decided to make my own journey through the wild undergrowth that is eBay’s “Weird” section. There amidst the bondage gear and sex toys, I found some truly bizarre auctions that the seller’s seem to [...]

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Ferraris Are Rubbish (And Here Are 7 Reasons Why)

We all love a good supercar wreckage, don’t we? Just how we all love to compare car insurance. There’s just something about seeing a car worth an extortionate amount of money smashed into bits at the hands of incompetent drivers. We take delight in the schadenfreude we experience when yet another vehicle that costs as [...]

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

10 Awesome Movies That Should Be Made Into Awesome Video Games

We all like to bitch about the rubbishness of games based on movies, and with good reason: in order to make a quick buck, idea-deficient publishers seem to have a conveyor-belt of mediocrity that turns every crappy Hollywood blockbuster into an equally crappy (or even crappier) video game.
In the futile hope that my wishes will [...]

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

You Wouldn’t Let The Kids Play With Them: Ludicrously Expensive Toys

Collecting. It’s a bizarre habit, isn’t it? Be it stamps, coins, bottle tops, beer or anything, there is some innate compulsion to amass a set of items that only truly have value to the collectors or to others that share their passion (or are as willing to use their virgin credit card or MBNA credit [...]

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

The 10 Scariest Video Games Ever (Rated 18)

Ever since Haunted House appeared on the Magnavox Odyssey back in 1972, many video game developers have been refining their dark arts in order to create games of increasing complexity and sophistication with one aim: to scare the crap out of us. Recent major releases such as F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin and the imminent Resident [...]

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

The Most Expensive Books Ever Sold

In a world where everything is becoming increasingly digitized and where whole reams of information are readily accessible via the internet and electronic libraries, extreme value is still being placed on the humble book. People are willing to pay incredible sums of money (whilst at the same time waving goodbye to their cash ISAs and [...]

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

10 Games To Get You Through The Recession

Just because world is on the verge of a horribly messy economic apocalypse doesn’t mean we can’t have fun, right? Right. However, we all know that expenditure on leisure is one of the first casualties of a recession; therefore, financially prudent entertainment is the best option.
That’s where board games come in. Not only are they [...]

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

2009’s Biggest Movies: Will They Be Any Good?

If you’re anything like me then every year you read the highly-excitable previews of the forthcoming major movies and feel idealistic seeds of childlike anticipation forming. Around this time last year I, like many, was considering the cinematic wonders that lay before me like an eager child on Christmas Eve. Magazines, TV shows and websites [...]