Archive for July, 2006


Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Xbox 360) – First First Impressions

 Ever since playing the BFMC demo and discovering that it didn’t suck, a slow, nagging consumerist urge has been building within me. I knew I wanted this game, even though Battlefield is clearly a mouse-friendly franchise. While shop-surfing today, BF2MC was all smouldering eyes at me, but I couldn’t act while my girlfriend was there, [...]

Cheapie Xbox 360 Titles at JB Macquarie

If you can brave the sudden exponential expansion of the “Wow JB! You’ve Done It Again!” stickers on everything, JB Hi-Gi at Macquarie Centre has a bunch cheap Xbox 360 games: Table Tennis – $AUD 62 Quake 4, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Call of Duty 2, Dynasty Warriors 5,  – each $79. (30-odd bucks off) [...]

PGR3 Style Pack: The Mini’s Back!11!!11!1eleven! Cat and Mouse Added!

Ask a hundred gamers what car they miss the most from PGR2, and at least six point three will answer ”the Mini, you stupid bastard!” I don’t remember seeing it before, but Cat and Mouse is now an available game type, formalizing “the mini game” from PGR2 – where the idea was that two drivers would form [...]

Video on the Iriver E10? Sounds tricky…

If you’re stopping by to ask about using an E10, please consider the disposition of your host! In the finest tradition of the best French and Chinese waiters, I will henceforth treat anyone asking about E10s with the polite scorn and derision they deserve. If this describes you, perhaps you’re not classy enough for this [...]

ET Quake Wars Slips Quietly Into 2007

I’d be more worried by this if it wasn’t suddenly July already. Where the hell did the year go? At this rate, 2007 will arrive next week! Splash Damage’s Paul Wedgwood wrote for his Developer Diary on Gamespy: Following E3, Splash Damage and id spent weeks reviewing the status of Enemy Territory. 2006 has been [...]

So they want to make DVR as useless as DVD? FANTASTIC!

Via Ars: US television network ABC is concerned about losing ad revenue to DVR-loving, ad-skipping consumers, and it has a plan to stem the bleeding—deactivate the DVR fast forward button. Yes, we just adore those annoying unskippable sections of DVD that prevent you from watching the part you actually want to watch until you’ve sat [...]