Recent Articles

LittleBigWasteOfTime?

Following the conclusion of the downloadable public beta trial of the PlayStation 3 exclusive title “LittleBigPlanet”. The full commercial release of the title on Blu-ray disc was released in late October to all territories, but I neglected to publish the following article anywhere other than the semi-official (& now defunct) PS3 Blog, ThreeSpeech.com.


Interview - Sidhe Talk Candidly About Shatter™

On a balmy July evening, from London town, I spoke to Mario Wynands about Sidhe Interactive’s (New Zealand’s most successful game developers) newest original IP and PSN exclusive, Shatter™. Some of you will no doubt remember Sidhe for making the acclaimed game GripShift®, which first came out on the PSP and was one of the PSN launch titles.


The History Of Atari

Back in the year 1961, the mere thought of a person contemplating the idea of creating videogames would be enough to put that person into the category of crazy. Why ? I hear you ask, well that answer is simple! Back then videogames were barely around. Let’s take a look at how it all developed to what we have today.


Retrospective: A Look back At Double Dragon

Distributed by TAITO both in European and American markets back in 1986, “Renegade” was a single-player game which featured a character fighting his way through a huge cornucopia of street thugs. Originally created by Yoshihisa Kishimoto for Techno Japan, it was a ground breaking game in its kind, making history.


The Blame Game: Politicians At Play

In April 2009, America revisited the school shooting at Columbine High. For a decade, survivors, friends and relatives remembered the 13 students and faculty killed from that tragedy, included in those 13 were the two teenage assailants. They dressed in black, trench coats and went about on a murderous rampage.