Archive for May, 2006

Warcraft Relapse

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Well it finally happened - I’m back on WoW. After 6 months, all my sound reasoning, elaborate strategems and sorry excuses are for naught.
Went to a friend’s place on Saturday night, they had a spare computer with WoW running. It was a bit of a girly night so I foolishly said to my mate - [...]

Post E3 Rant : Sony Keep Digging

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Sony Computer Entertainment MD Ray Macguire on GamesIndustry.biz.
“£425 is definitely not a mass market price, no,” Maguire admitted.
“But you think about the price, think about the price of just a Blu-Ray player. It will be cheaper than a Blu-Ray player just by itself. So fundamentally we’re going to be great value just from that point [...]

Post E3 Rant

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Disclaimer: This is entirely my own opinion and in no way reflects the views of my employer or anyone else who gives me money.

Now both Sony and Microsoft agree with me - the Nintedo Wii is the most exciting next-generation console.
High farce indeed.
I predict tough times for the Playstation 3 if this marketing confusion [...]

E3 2006

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Well, E3 kicked off this week. It is a big deal for my kind, and this especially so this year with playable versions of all three next generation consoles available. There’s a good summary of the spin being offered by each of the three major hardware manufacturers here:
Conference Highlights on Eurogamer.tv:
Nintendo
Microsoft
Sony
Ranting will ensue [...]

Cats employed at illegal factory sweatshops.

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

Exclusively to Justicle, we have a shocking expose on the growing problem of household pets being employed as slave labour in backyard “sweatshops” manufacturing everything from baby products to garden manure.
Disturbing photos reveal the terrible lives of some young cats employed at a backyard sweatshop in Annandale, who are forced to assemble a stroller and [...]

The gloves are off!

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Now that Apple have back-flipped on processor architecture, its time for them to start rubbing PC user’s noses in it.
The gloves are well and truly off.