I was 16 years old when I got my first real taste for hockey. Sure I had watched games before then, but I wasn't really all that interested until the 94 playoff run for the Vancouver Canucks. During that run, the whole of Vancouver got swept up in the commotion, myself included. It was during those playoffs that hockey got into my blood. The years that followed would see me home on game nights watching or listening to the game. Don Cherry, Jim Robson, Jim Hughson, Tom Larscheid, and Ron Maclean became my instructors, teaching me all there is to know about this newfound fascination. My heroes shifted from the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean-Claude Van Damme to that of Trevor Linden, and Pavel Bure. And at the start of the 94/95 season I picked up my first hockey videogame, "NHL 95". Read More...

Tags: NHL 10, Dumbest Idea Ever

"Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis" came out in 92, and I was able to snatch it up shortly after it's release. How could I not? "The Last Crusade" turned me onto adventure gaming. After "Last Crusade" I dabbled in many other adventure games, but none had the same effect on me as my first adventure with Indy. Read More...

Tags: Top 10, Fate Of Atlantis, Indy, Indiana Jones

Memories are like photographs. And "time" is your average crappy photoshop user playing with the contrast slider. Time likes to crank the contrast up on your photos with each passing year. All the darker gloomier elements of your photos slowly fade into blackness at the bottom end of the spectrum. At the same time, the lighter happier elements become brighter. Meanwhile, all the finer detail in your photos gets lost, and all you're left with is a polarised view of your memories. Things you liked when you were a kid, you now remember loving. And things you didn't like or were indifferent towards, you now remember hating. I tried to compensate for this when compiling my list, but it's damn hard when all you can see is blinding white when remembering games long past. Modern games that have made this list must be truly special by that logic. Either they have shown me something completely new, or are refinement approaching perfection. Mass Effect falls into the latter.
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Tags: Top 10, Mass Effect

If you know me, you’ll know that my favourite gift of all time(next to my puppy) was the Sega Master System that my mother gave to my brother and I when we were kids. We played a lot of games on that system. Standouts were Zillion, Quartet, Space Harrier, Ghostbusters, and Rambo. Sega treated me very well with that system. That’s why it was so hard to shun the Genesis and pick up a SNES instead. My brother and I can’t remember exactly how we got the SNES. But we think we sold our Master System and games in order to buy it. Man we played a lot of games on that system. I fondly remember playing Super Mario World, F-Zero, and Starfox(I fucking hate you Slippy you tool). But of course, those all paled in comparison to “The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past”. Read More...

Tags: Top 10, Zelda, Link To The Past

Well, I said I was going to keep you updated. And here’s the update. I’m officially into the development phase of my archery game. Meaning I’ve got everything plotted out. Now I just need to go and actually build it. You know, the easy part. Well, maybe it’s not that easy. Read More...

Tags: Game Design, Game Development

When I was in high school I got my game on with my Super Nintendo, a Mac IIsi, and a little 386 PC. I could go on for hours talking about that Mac IIsi or my super nintendo. But I don’t remember much about that PC at all. I don’t remember what software I used on it or where it was located in the house even. The only thing I remember about that little computer...is Bloodnet... Read More...

Tags: Top 10, Bloodnet

You know that friend you have that’s really into music, games, or movies. Well you and him are trapped in an elevator. 2 hours into it you’re struggling to think of something new to talk about. So you blurt “What’s your top 10 bands/games/movies?” And you instantly regret it. Not because you’re uninterested in what that person has to say on the subject, but rather because that is a horrible amount of pressure to put on someone. I mean how many bands/games/movies has that person listened to/played/watched? Well I’ve been asked that question from time to time, and I have had no answer, regardless of the topic or genre. Recently I seriously wondered what are my 10 favourite games of all time, and what order they ranked in... Read More...

Tags: Top 10, Prince Of Persia

You may wonder why I’m reviewing a movie on a videogame news blog. Don’t worry, you likely won’t see me do it very often. But I couldn’t resist this time. District 9 just screams “I want to be a videogame” most the way through the film... Read More...

This one’s a bit of a double whammy for Sony. First off, the PSP go. Pricing has been released for the tiny handheld in Australia and the news is not good. $450 for the PSP Go. No that is not a typo, $450. I think that’s disgusting. Australians pay through the nose for gaming, but this latest round of price gouging is ridiculous... Read More...

If you knew me for awhile you would find that I’m a tinkerer. If something is broken, I’ll fiddle with it till it’s fixed. Or until I break it to the point where I need to buy new parts. But if I can fix the problem with duct tape and an old cereal box, you know I will. I like to think I’m pretty good at tinkering. And I think that’s mainly because I am pretty good at improvising. Seeing solutions to problems using what I have around me. However, what I’m certainly not good at is the conveying of my solutions into written form. If you asked me to write down how I’m going to fix something beforehand, I would just get frustrated and angry. “It’s in my head, and I don’t need to write it down” is what I would say... Read More...

Tags: Game Design