At A Glance The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. In several ways, better than Battlefield 2 for PC. Overall: 8 Graphics: 7 Sound: 7 Single Player: 8 Multiplayer: 8 Good: frenetic combat single player campaign generally good network play lots of neat graphical touches Bad: campaign can be inconsistently hard lots of pauses between [...]

Another friend got PGR3 today, so after the now-obligatory Mini race around London, we spent a little while in Cone Capture. We were going to give Cat and Mouse a try, but there weren’t any games on. I took a D-class Sagaris, and he took a Merc CLK GTR, and we blasted through the streets of Vegas [...]

If you’re like me, you’re probably quite well-used to avoiding banner ads. You see them, you recognize them, you ignore them. You never click them. I don’t actively use an ad-blocker (I use pop-up blockers), though. Well, I’m instituting a new policy – on Sundays, if a site rewards my presence with information that I find [...]

My watch says it’s still July (not quite the rumoured September), but JB Macquarie had an Iriver Clix (at least two, actually) in store for $AUD292 today. A friend snapped it up eagerly; I’m waiting to see how he feels about it before deciding whether I need another MP3/WMA/Ogg player. The Clix seems to be the pick of the [...]

Following on from my earlier impressions, I took BFMC out for a spin on Live, and she didn’t disappoint. On a fairly unpopulated server, I was one stinking kill away from my first medal (Sniper – 10 kills without dying), but the time ran out. I’m still sitting here buzzing. It was fun. The scenario: I [...]

Of the many guilty pleasures of my youth, none are remembered with quite the same fondness as the original El Maco burger and fries from Mcdonald’s. The concept was brilliant: make a burger with taco ingredients! Everyone loves Tacos! And so Maccas’ keen food design team went to work. The burger they produced was a juicy patty with grated cheese, [...]