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Here we are, Halo’s Eve, tomorrow sees the release of one my most anticipated titles of 2011 and strangely, the game is already a decade old. However, as much as I look forward to wrapping Halo: CE’s campaign around me like a nice warm blamket I keep finding myself coming back to the same slightly sinking feeling,
So, Halo 4 eh?
Steam, as a service, is something I am slowly growing to love. It was at first a different story however, I hated it. I first came in contact with the strange and flighty beast on November 16th 2004. I had come home with a copy of a game I’d been waiting for, a title I had coveted as I played and replayed it’s acclaimed forebear. The tension in the air was palpable as i carefully removed the shrink wrap. I gingerly removed the single DVD from it’s Amaray branded ABS temple and began the install. Progress bars leapt across the screen with all the earnest haste of a half dead snail with a really crappy sense of direction. Okay, thirty minutes isn’t that bad, it’s a brand new game and my machine isn’t exactly fast…
Found this earlier I did… Laugh long you must!
This article was written in January of 2011 to comment on the issue of George Hotz cracking the root code on the PS3 and the popular and internet press backlash from the discovery. I re-publish it now because while it is not as topical as it once was, I still stand by many of the [...]
A long time ago, in the far away land of Cambridge, a dude named Alexander S Douglas fed a bunch of punched paper tape into his EDSAC computer creating the world’s first Tic-Tac-Toe programme and (probably inadvertently) gave birth to a new entertainment medium. Just shy of 20 years later another electronics genius named Nolan [...]