Modern Warfare 2 – Dick in the ass edition

Once upon a time, Electronic Arts were seen as the all consuming evil of the gaming world. A little bit like ‘The Nothing’ in the never ending story, a company hell bent on destroying what everyone loved about gaming in the first place and churning out yet another ‘The Sims – coming out to your [...]

The Anti-Dreamcast 10th anniversary non-celebration

For those of you, like me, old enough to remember a time when Sony dominated the home console market, Quake 3 Arena had the greatest graphics you’d ever seen, 5ive were slam dunking the funk on MTV, and pornography downloaded really fucking slowly thanks to our state of the art 56K modems, you may just [...]

Gamings most stereotypical stereotypes. Part 1: black dudes and tits

Modern day videogaming is rife with ideas culled from any number of straight to DVD movies. From such cinematic offal  as Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus to feel good celluloid flotsam Private Valentine: Blonde and Dangerous starring cinematic heavyweight Jessica Simpson, video games have always plundered ideas from Hollywoods brightest stars. However, much like every cinematic banquet of  Aliens [...]