Guardian columnist and avid gamer, Charlie Brooker, recently wrote an interesting piece about the relative ‘intelligence’ of entertainment products coming out of both Hollywood and the video games industry. The basic premise was that Hollywood had essentially run out of …
Gamescom 2010 kicks off in Cologne – looks well worth a visit
So, once more the biggest global annual Gaming expo, Gamescom, is underway in Cologne, Germany (yes, indeed it is even bigger than both E3 and the Tokyo Games Show – which both have a longer history). Anyway for Europeans, those …
E3 2010 coverage highlights
With last week’s E3 gaming expo having gone down a treat over in LA, the web is abuzz with plenty of excellent in-depth coverage. Here’s a short summary of the most interesting and comprehensive sources of news, comment and highlights …
New Call of Duty outsells GTA 4, and Batman, Indy and all your favourite Hollywood heroes…
A new video gaming record has been set last week when I successfully obliterated my previous personal best on RPG classic Planescape Torment, and finished the whole thing in around five hours… In other news, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare …
Shock! Horror! It turns out Nintendo DS can't make you a genius after all!
It has emerged this week from a Which? magazine organised piece of research that playing brain training games such as those advertised for the Nintendo DS actually provides little extra mental stimulus – and no more than simply surfing the …