Perfect Dark Zero, more like

Posted in games, stupidity, x360 on March 17th, 2010 by RevStu

Perfect Dark XBLA is out today, for 800 MS points (about £6.80).

I've been looking forward to this one excitedly for months, as I love PD even more than Goldeneye and the thought of being able to play it in shiny high def and without the framerate catastrophes was almost too thrilling for words. However, knowing how moronically incompetent and lazy modern developers are, I warily downloaded the trial version first. I'm not a complete idiot.

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The entire history of videogames magazines

Posted in games, piracy on March 17th, 2010 by RevStu

If you want to see it, get in quick before the Digital Economy Bill is passed, which could happen any day now, for it can only be a matter of time before BitTorrent files are outlawed entirely by clueless and discredited politicians desperately clutching for corporate donations.

This week I've been hunting down a few old reviews missing from the WoS Archive, and was fortunate enough to find some of them in a collection of Commodore Format scans posted at the excellent Underground Gamer (membership required). While browsing the site, though, I also stumbled across practically the entire history of 8-bit and 16-bit videogames magazines.

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