Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

As my fun with Assassin’s Creed 2 is beginning to end (as in, there’s not much in it left to do!) and I picked up a massive bargain last night on the Ubisoft Shop – the Brotherhood Codex Edition for a mere fifteen Earth Pounds Sterling – I’m suddently hyped for the next in the series, despite being a little behind everyone else… Note: this is a sponsored post.

Games I Hate: Donkey Kong 64

Until the release of the technically fantastic, utterly huge, and gloriously lovely to look at Donkey Kong 64 for the Nintendo 64, I was a big fan of Rare’s stuff. Or at least, I thought I was. I mean, I did really, really, enjoy Banjo Kazooie. So much so that I almost completed it many times (the end boss proving too much), and even got the XBLA remake – finally 100%ing it. But looking back at their other titles, I’m not …

Oh Sega, you big tease

Why must you do this to me? Why, after all the terrible, terrible things I’ve seen and heard about Sonic Generations, why, after all the times you have burnt me in the past, WHY, oh WHY, must you then do this? I mean, that looks AWESOME. Oh I hate you, Sega. So very very much. Because now I need to buy this game, and you KNOW I will, and then you’ll make me pay for trusting you again by putting …

Let’s Play! The Steelyard Blues

That Harry S Price was a card, wasn’t he? Ripping off loads of Spectrum games, altering their graphics, selling the game on as his own. Nawty. One of these game was The Steelyard Blues. Which I loved, until only a few years ago when I found out it was a shameless clone of “Cheekah’s Exploits” by Julian Wood – a game published as a type-in in Your Computer. Tch. Still, it’s a competent and difficult collect-em-up platformer, complete with level …

That Rev Chap, a year on

A year ago today, one of the few people I know online who I could call a proper actual friend, died suddenly. I won’t go into it all, as I’ve written everything before, but I wanted to mark it in some way. I’m still sad he’s gone. Something about the online fora I frequent, and Twitter, has changed a little. They’re not the same. Sure, he was just one of many in those places, but he’s one who made an …

Change is as good as a rest

It isn’t. That’s a complete and utter lie. A rest is far better than change, unless the change is a change from not resting to actually resting, and even then it’s not as good as a rest, it IS a rest. Stupid phrase. Anyway. Nonsense aside, you may have noticed I’ve done a bit of decorating. I don’t know if it’s all going to stay or not yet, but it’s about time I updated the theme to something, well, updated. …

A post about video games

Hello! It’s been a little while since I last posted anything, mainly because I’ve been busy. Thought I’d just mention a few upcoming games that’s I’m really looking forward to, and some other game related stuff. It’s been a slim few months for releases I’ve been interested in. Partly because there haven’t been that many big games over the summer, and partly because due to the £18 Rule I don’t get much on release any more and by the time …

Nintendo screwing Europe over again

OK, to be fair, we did just get Xenoblade Chronicles, which the US didn’t. But they’ve decided to remove the 100-long London Life RPG from the EU version of the new Professor Layton game. It’s there in Japan, and there in the US, but we in Europe ain’t getting it. Of course, there’s nothing stopping us from importing the US version. Nothing, except they’ve changed Luke’s voice to be the most irritating thing ever (it’s even worse than Tails in …