I’m a day into inFamous and I think I’m in a position to give some impressions about the game. Firstly I have to say that I’m really enjoying the game. It has a nice visual style and once you get some powers under your belt, the ability to power slide along wires for example, it’s really enjoyable to just travel around the city. The bad so far Character Animation The character animation in the game is slightly old school. Linear progression between animation frames looks, to be frank, really awful nowadays and the running animations are rather comical. This is most apparent at...

It must be another week as there’s a new episode of the Van Hemlock podcast up. This week we have a very special guest. Well we have a guest. Well Matt from Limited Edition joins us. You can find the show at virginworlds, but if your oppressive internet regime doesn’t let you see that you can also listen to it here. But listen to it there if you can. And then go listen to the rest of the shows hosted there as they’re all good. Especially Limited Edition. Time for the Melvyn Bragg style after show commentary. We don’t have...

It’s that time of week again, we’ve released the Van Hemlock Podcast Episode 52. In this weeks slightly longer episode (somebody ignored my frantic “Stop talking now!” gesturing for a good half hour) we cover some news then go mad with a nice long talk about what we’re playing. I’m doing badly on the old “actually playing anything” stakes again I’m afraid, but Van Hemlock more than makes up with it for not playing Free Realms. Constantly. Night and day. This week the twitter question was "L44 in CoH and the end is in sight! Which MMOs, if any, have you...

Too busy to blog is, I think, an excuse and not a valid reason.I don't even need to think of a topic as the weekly podcast is reason enough to post. So here is last weeks show, Episode 51, which ia another live broadcast (why do I say live, it's just as recorded as the other episodes but just has worse sound), this time with the guys from Killed in a Smilling Accident. And now, in Melvyn Bragg style after hhe records In Our Time, I shall comment on what I think we missed in the episode. We avoided the chance to...