Quake 4 First Impressions

Update: Full review is now posted.
I haven’t bought any games for a long while, and this evening while in my friendly neighbourhood computer game chain of corporate opression (EB), I had a choice between buying FEAR and Quake 4… I chose Quake 4 on the spur of the moment.
I’ve been playing it for about an [...]

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An Xbox 360 Without A Hard Drive? The King Without A Sword?

I’m just playing up the King Arthur angle in a shameless effort to gain hits from Arthurian legend seekers, but seriously, the Masses want to know: Does not having a hard drive mean that the 360 is doomed before the new era is even upon us?
Well, kids, no. No, it doesn’t.
One of the really frequently-voiced [...]

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Xbox 360 “Core” - No HDD

Xbox 360 pricing is now a known quantity, at least in the US and Europe, and it looks like this:
$299 (converts to around $AUD430 after adding GST) buys the “Core System” - a console without a hard drive. Or a memory unit. (With a wired controller).
And it looks like this version’s a little contentious (check [...]

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F.E.A.R. Demo Review

F.E.A.R.
Creepy. The name alone was enough to have me scared. Scared in the same way that the name “Contract J.A.C.K.” scared me. And “First Encounter Assault Recon”? Please! “Fun Educational Activities and Recreation” would have been a less forced acronym, and quite possibly scarier, in that inimitable way that only edutainment can be.
As you might [...]

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Gaming Death Epidemic In Korea

Please, someone tell the South Koreans that it’s not a competition?
Another South Korean dropped dead after a gaming binge.
At first I thought Gonza had made a mistake and linked to an old story. Then, I thought the news sources were just re-hashing that old story, but as it turns out, it’s becoming quite the trend [...]

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