While big-time Hollywood studios and investors throw massive piles of cash at CGI-filled shitheaps, many independent and first-time movie-makers are making films on shoestring budgets with a hope of hitting the jackpot. So, perhaps now the economy is screwed and easy credit is but a sad memory we might have the serendipitous pleasure of seeing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you thought 2008 was a big year for video games then check out a few of next year’s biggest titles…
(All release dates as listed on Amazon.)

1. Killzone 2
Format: PlayStation 3
Release date: 1st Feb (US) / 26th Feb (UK)
Though the over-hyped PS2 original was something of a let down, the long-awaited sequel is, nevertheless, the [...]