My last post was rather positive about WAR, but this one will be less so. I spent a large chunk of the evening with RvR as my primary goal, which means sitting in long waiting lists and trying to take a very stubborn cannon away from those stunties to push back and throw that balance back into favour of the much more appropriate red colour. Tenacious little stunties made that rather hard without a larger organised force, which wasn't forthcoming and so got rather dull rather quickly. This meant I spent a lot of time in a waiting list for a...

Bioshock will need an install on the PS3 it seems: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/10/bioshock-ps3-install-takes-10-minutes-4.98gb/ Now let me get this straight. In order to play you need to install a DVD worth of content onto the HD. The game also looks 100% the same as the 360 version and doesn't contain any new content that will take up any considerable extra space. So what they're saying is that they're putting the whole game on the HD because blu-ray is too slow. Don't get me wrong, this isn't just a knock on the PS3, I think that the 360 DVDs...

One of the big things I love about achievements/trophies/whatever a game wants to call them is that they encourage you to play the game more, whether it be to get through to the end of the game, go back and play content you missed, or even to encourage you to try different play styles. Last week Uncharted: Drake's Progress was patched to support the trophy system on the PS3, the first full retail game to do so, and so I dropped in to have another look at the game. The first time I played it was just...

I have my doubts about Little Big Planet and how much effort your average gamer will put in to the creation side, but with this news. Sorry, that should be THIS NEWS as it needs shouting, the game just became an instant classic anyway.

Nat over at buttonmashing.com is asking an interesting question: Do you finish the games that you buy? I had to answer no, but the question is more complicated than that. I should start off by saying I play a lot of games. I probably on average buy one a fortnight, and since I have an interest in the mechanics of the games I tend to play a lot of games that do interesting things but people may consider to be bad games according to the reviews. Apparently either I have low standards or reviews are rubbish because I don't think...

Metal Gear Solid is known for it's plot, you're always going to be in cutscene-tastic land when you play a new one. Well the new game is coming out very soon and some details have started to drop about some of the more interesting features. First up is the 4.6GB mandatory install. I guess we all have to live with those nowadays, even if it does mean that very soon you'll not be able to just drop and and play an older game without micro-managing your disk space on your PS3 because the hard disks are so small and you're...

This year should see the introduction of the first serious MMOs on the next gen consoles. Final Fantasy and Fantasy Star Online on the 360 don't really count as serious; they're far too niche and never really grabbed a decent number of people for the platform (360, not the ones they're popular on). Now with The Agency, All Points Bulletin and (when they decide to start coding it) Age of Conan on the horizon the dawn of a new age is upon us. Or is it? I have my doubts, and I think it’s because we’re wrong as MMO players. As...

The Haze demo finally finished downloading (I think I should change ISPs) and I've played it. I shall not be buying that game, it isn't very good. That is all.

Please be warned, this may not be a 100% positive review of GTA IV. War crimes? Ethnic Cleansing? Suspicious deaths of leaders during their trial? Michael Palin shows that show it to be a country of very normal people who just want to move on? (which, by a conspiracy theory friendly coincident was restarted on BBC 2 tonight) Serbia is a country that has had  a lot of bad publicity in the 90s, and now in the whatever-we're-meant-to-call-thems we're looking at again, the latest view being presented by GTA IV, the game where the hero is the product of the war...

M'colleague Van Hemlock is running a feature where he details features and ideas from MMOs that he thinks are nifty, so I thought I'd steal the idea as punishment for him making us sound like a couple on Shut Up We're Talking this week. Now I can't do MMOs of course as he's doing such a good job at that so I'm going to come at it from the console angle. Very few of these ideas will be obviously MMO based, but I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that MMO as a term is what's wrong with this end of...