The Daily Scoundrel

If you’re into games, you’d be hard pressed to have been able to avoid the super-mega-enormo-release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 this week.  This is the first game ever to have a full-blown premiere event, a la the movies.  It is, according to initial stats, the fastest selling computer game ever. The hype [...]

Er. We’ve been a bit quiet lately. Sorry about that.  I have a few unfinished articles queued up.  In keeping with the Hallowe’en theme, one is on why Resident Evil is bloody horrible, and not in the way it intended.  For now, though, I couldn’t resist talking about this…
Hunting Frenzy is a hunting game.  Or, [...]

Zero 7 must be pretty annoyed by the majority’s reaction to their new record, Yeah Ghost.  Released last week to a collection of relatively decent reviews, there’s a thread running through both the critical and consumer commentary.  Zero 7 has always been the baby of Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker, and there’s no change to [...]

There I was getting wound up about one semi-games-related thing, and my girlfriend shouts through from the other room with another.  Seems, in this week’s edition of women’s real-life mag Take A Break, the editor’s mounting a campaign (along with the more motherly of the magazine’s readership) to ban the Grand Theft Auto and [...]

Here’s a fact: Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams and I share a birthdate.  Not just a birthday, you understand, but an actual, proper, full-fucking-on birthdate.  I like to think we’re actually estranged twins and one day we’re going to meet, in some sort of hugely emotional embrace, and she’ll somehow imbue on me her power to [...]

Thank goodness for multiple categories, eh?  After a fairly long wait, Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe airs tonight, tragically relegated to BBC4 at 10pm BST.  Charlie Brooker is a very funny man who used to be a games journalist and now is all famous and on the telly.  You’ll have probably seen him before.  Some people think [...]

Sitting in with the lady, we decide at half 10 to start watching Happy Feet.  It’s a film that… well, one I knew pretty much nothing about.  It’s about a dancing penguin – that’s about as much as I’d gathered.  Lady’s dad said she’d love it, which, since we tend to share pretty much the [...]

Last night, British television station ITV aired a frightening documentary on gaming addiction, and the terrifying results it can apparently have.
Maybe I was naive to expect an interesting, balanced report on the long-debated nature of an addiction that many still feel does not even exist.  Or maybe it’s just the mainstream media stooping to a [...]

I’ve been playing Mini Ninjas for the past couple of days.  I’ve reviewed it for Resolution Magazine.  Go read.
Some further thoughts, though: when I played a demo of this a while back, I was certain it was going to be game of the year material.  It exuded this wonderful charm, and had an incredibly strong [...]