February 2011
18 posts
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Killzone 3 (PS3)
An emphatic blitz on the senses, throwing everything at you in one elegantly designed piece of destruction. Gargantuan landscapes are traversed to an operatic soundtrack; we’re wandering into Michael Bay territory here, both for the good and bad. What this leads to is a somewhat bittersweet singleplayer combat experience, that falls into old habits and becomes a victim to it’s own...
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Dragon Age 2- First impressions
The demo for the RPG Dragon Age 2 landed on all platforms today. The most prominent concern about the demo is that the graphics have hardly improved, textures are still rendered poorly, animations feel stiff and environments look stale. The gameplay has been streamlined by to an ample degree, similar to the transition from Mass Effect 1 to 2, it feels as if you’re playing a Hack and Slash rather...
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Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
Worlds collide once more in this highly anticipated Fighter. Step into the shoes of some of your favourite characters from the Marvel and Capcom universes and engage in vehement 3-on-3 battles. Pulchritudinous comic-book style visuals are apparent in every aspect, from the character models to the stages everything is a delight to look upon. Insane combos and preposterous special attacks are what...
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Are you playing your love games with me?
Embracing that emphatic feeling to scream your love for someone from the rooftops is both gay, and will not score you anything within this wonderful planet, so we’re here to assist with a cavalcade (three to be precise) of video games that are destined to spice up your chances and bring romance into the air. Fire up the passion with a delectable tantaliser of any leisure suit larry game....
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
At first glance this seems like it’s going to be one of those dire tongue in cheek pseudo instruction manuals such as “The Zombie Survival Guide” or “How to survive a robot uprising”. Charles Yu’s novel is so much more than that, it’s a superb, quirky, clever novel about a character named after himself who is on a quest to find his father within quantum space-time. The story is fundamentally...
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Crysis 2 leaked
An early, buggy build of the upcoming shooter, Crysis 2 was leaked earlier today. As you would expect many fans flocked towards the game to try it out. Within hours of the leak EA had issued a statement in which they said they were “Deeply disappointed”. Behaviour like this is not a surprise; forcing players to pirate games to avoid constrictive DRM and not releasing a demo for PC players is...
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The simplest (and free) way to Killzone 3...
A significant moment in nrm: the first competition, and the rules couldn’t be anymore simpler, requiring but a mere 3-4 minutes of your time, depending on how much time you invest will increase your chances.
So what do I do?
The competition is based around an online random number generator, and an excel spreadsheet, allocating each entry a number (yes we are that cheap). So the more...
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Just another #Friendly Friday
Feeling the over-bearing perpetuation of social networking solitude as you tweet to your audience of that one friend who joined to keep you content and that irritating company/PR individual that just follows everyone? Well then the time has come, dear reader, to gain a dependency on those who’re socially “better” than you, and participate in Follow Friday: an online cornucopia...
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Dead Space 2 (Xbox 360/PS3)
A mutated baby explodes in a cloud of crimson and a macabre sense of humour, setting the amoral tone for yet another game crafted with an almost beautiful uncomfortability. Cast straight back into the same feeling of paranoia and isolation, with the same desirably tense atmospherics, brought to the foreground with near-pitch-perfect antiphonies of design ethics. Fantastical mutations and that...
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The end of the world... again. How terribly...
Who do you trust with the end of the world? The Mayan’s (so far all completed) predictions of 2012 or ‘diabolical’ Russian scientists? So in 2009 Russian scientists predicted the Aphophis asteroid has a >2% chance of impact in 2036, now Professor Leonid Sokolov predicts the chances are slim, but precautions must be taken. Precautions 26 years in advance for an asteroid that...
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Absolutely Filthy
I recently had the pleasure of attending a Crystal Castles concert. Normally I would have had a fantastic time, I get to see one of my favourite bands, what could go wrong? Unfortunately for me one of the acts were a “Dubstep” band. A genre of music which has recently had a massive spike in popularity among pop culture sheep. It basically consists of various wibbles and wobbles, and I for one...
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127 Hours (Cinema)
Reluctance to watch any films featuring one main character stuck in a situation facing life or death for an hour and a half occurred before watching this. I was wrong to doubt. The riveting tale of Aron Ralston’s autobiography ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’ was brought to us by Danny Boyle. The pace of the film is what I had initial reservations about, this was the least of my fears with...
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Thoughts on the Egyptian protests
“Israel must be wiped off the map.” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, October 2005.
America’s biggest lobby group: AIPAC, and the CFR (unofficial body which decides foreign policy of Western nations) bank-roll the policy-makers who keep the middle east (Egypt) stable, for the sake of Israel. Recently, as the citizens protested against Mubarak’s pro-Israeli government, US changed...
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A virtual "March of Millions"...no picture of...
Almost as nonsensical and idiotic as changing your profile picture to a cartoon character to combat child abuse, THIS facebook event (a week long bonanza, bring ice cream) will enable you to aid a peaceful protest for democracy in Egypt by “being there in spirit.” God (or Allah…or your conscience depending on your religious compass/lack there of) will thank you deeply for...
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Fishing for Attention
Why do so many of us feel the need to obnoxiously fish for attention through social means such as Facebook? Every day I seem to see people posting statuses such as “OMG WORST DAY EVRRR” and it just aggravates me. Do you really have no other way of expressing yourself? The pathetic attempt of making it covert just makes it worse. If you’re not going to tell us what the big catastrophe in your...
