The Bloggings of The_B

And so it begins… (Click for the annotated version) For those that are nosey/interested, my new upgrades are as follows: 2.4Ghz Intel Quad Core Duo 2GB DDR 2 RAM 400GB Western Digital Caviar Hard Drive Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Socket 775 Motherboard GeForce 8800GTX ..and yes, I’m biting the bullet and going for Vista, Home Premium. First [...]

Yeah, I’ve known about Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s Zero Punctuation for a while. And I should have blogged him sooner. Forgive me. Still, his latest piece is now up, and it’s about everyone’s favourite Casual Game, Peggle. Go watch. Then go watch the others…

Irony loves me. In case you didn’t already know – I come from Hull. Known as 2001′s most “Crap Town”. However, currently I am living in Lincoln while I study Computer Games Production. However, recently it was announced that the UK’s first Games Academy was to be set up in conjunction with, among other places, [...]

As someone who probably wont be on the beta, it’s funny and interesting to watch the inpatience, suffering and indeed the anticipation of you all as you wait. Although you will have the last laugh, eventually: Bastards.

So, EA’s head honcho said this week to the Royal Television Society about television: “You’re just as violent as games.” Then today, Michael Grade – head of ITV – has responded with this: According to Broadcast magazine, Grade said that TV could take the moral high ground over games because it enjoyed the ‘framework of [...]