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Batman: Arkham Asylum Review

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Batman: Arkham Asylum - "The choke's on you!"The prison guard jerks The Joker’s arm as he leads him off to his familiar cell in Arkham Asylum. As The Joker looks back over his shoulder at Batman, he trips and falls to his knee.

When the guard leans down to help him up, Joker takes the opportunity to quickly headbutt the guard as he stands up, sending him reeling. Before anyone can react he leaps up & wraps his cuffs around the guard’s neck from behind. Batman beats on the reinforced glass separating him from his nemesis as he kills the helpless prison guard.

When The Joker hears the guard’s last gurgling attempts at breathing, he gets in his punchline… “Choke’s on you!”

This scene sets the whole tone of Batman: Arkham Asylum, and I think someone may have been pumping Joker gas into my living room, as I had a silly grin on my face the whole time.

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05.09.2009 Gaming, Reviews View Comments

Game Damage Pilot

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

I’ve been a follower of Zero Punctuation gaming reviews for a long time now, and after Yahtzee’s latest review of Sonic Unleashed came a brief preview of his forthcoming project – Game Damage.

The new venture featuring Ben “Yahtzee” Crowshaw also features two of his friends – Yug and Matt (from Australian Gamer), and the show consists of news, reviews, comedy skits etc.

You can view the pilot episode below:

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18.12.2008 Gaming, Humour, Video View Comments

Gaming Awesomeness from SF4 and Burnout Paradise

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Just browsing the net as I normally do, I see a load of cool things that I think are great… but the ones that make me smile with a little fanboi-ish grin on my face always get blogged.

So I have for you two morsels of greatness – one from /gamer, and one from Kotaku.

Firstoff… some new downloadable content is due for Burnout Paradise… and its coming in the form of the Back to the Future Delorean… and yes it even hovers! I NEED that car! Take a look below for the images:

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08.11.2008 Gaming Comments Off

Miscellaneous Crap

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Well I haven’t blogged in a while, but then I haven’t had that much to blog about recently – life has trundled along and been generally uneventful… so I’ve decided to do a quick blog about loads of things I’ve been up to (that aren’t necessarily important).

Firstoff, another of my reviews is up over at Geeks of Doom.com, this time taking a look at the Guinness Book of Records: Gamer’s Edition.

Secondly, I’ve started using a website called Plurk in the past week… and I’m completely addicted to it already! The site is basically a microblogging site verymuch like Twitter, but with threaded conversations based around your “plurks” (twitter would call them “tweets”).

I have to say I’m loving it – there’s much more of a community feel to the site, and its great for sharing media like Youtube videos and photos etc. I’d highly recommend it, especially over Twitter what with its continuing downtime. You can check out my Plurk widget at the top right corner of my blog. :)

And lastly, I found a great image manipulation website that adds a cartoon-style to any uploaded photo… which makes it look a lot like the filming style in A Scanner Darkly… gotta say I love it, and have been fiddling with a few photos of me… take a look:

me, cartoon-style Another pic of me - I love the "scanner darkly" look to it

Last picture edited using befunky's cartoon-iser site

To get the desired effects as above, use the sketch feature first (set the brightness fairly low – it makes the sketch lines darker)… then click on the colour option and set it at medium/low.

Anyway thats all from me for the moment… I’ve got some more reviewing to do, but cashflow issues aren’t allowing me to do much yet. :( There will be a review of Ninja Gaiden 2 soon though… so keep your eyes peeled for it. :)

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19.06.2008 Gaming, Life, Tech View Comments

Oi! Thompson… you’re (dis)barred!

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Jack Thompson: <s>Ace Attourney</s> Complete Twonk

Now this is my idea of poetic justice.

Long time videogame violence crusader, and general moron Jack Thompson has finally had his arse kicked after leaving his court hearing in Florida yesterday – this prompted a recommendation of ”Enhanced Disbarrment”.

The recommendation means Thompson would be disbarred and prohibited from applying to practice law again for ten years, according to 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida spokesperson Eunice Sigler. [Source: Kotaku]

 Good news for any videogame developers that create games for Adult-orientated markets like GTA IV for example… but then I’d say good news for the videogame industry in general. Its about time that games, and gamers were cut some slack in my opinion.

To read more (a hell of a lot more – including Thompson’s 14-page objection letter he read out in court!), check out the story on Kotaku here.

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05.06.2008 Gaming View Comments

Article-writing goodness

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Geeks of Doom logo

As some of you may know, I’ve recently started writing game reviews and news for GeeksofDoom.com under the psuedonym Keyser Söze - my first being the Grand Theft Auto IV review I blogged about last time.

I have to say I’m enjoying getting my mind working in the process – its elating to actually have to think, and especially about something I genuinely enjoy. :)

Anyway I thought I’d post and give you the skinny on some more GoD goodness that I’ve done recently…

My first bit this week was just a little press release given to me by GoD editor Eve of Doom aka Empress Eve, detailing the news that GTA IV had broken 3 guinness world records… and that story also got Dugg, and became stupidly popular… :) Thats literally the first time anything I’ve actually written has been dugg properly… and at the time of writing its on 2194 diggs… and I was advised yesterday the story hit over 100,000 page views. Mental!

Anyway the next story posted this week by me is a preview of Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures… the game looks to be very good fun! So hopefully I’ll get a review done of it when it gets released. :)

The next review I have in the works is for Dark Sector on the Xbox 360, so I’ll let you know once that has been posted. :)

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15.05.2008 Gaming View Comments

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