After what seems like an age since the original announcement I finally managed to get into Playstation Home today which despite all the waiting is only in the Open Beta phase, basically if everyone loves it they’ll go live soon but if everyone thinks it sucks then they’ll keep in in beta and fix the […]

In November 2006 Microsoft added the ability to have your Xbox 360 automatically download new Xbox Live Arcade trial games, it’s a great feature but for too long I’ve just let it stack up with millions of trial games and it’s about time I sorted the wheat from the chaff and decided if there’s anything […]

I’ve not long since got back to my hotel after attending an event in Washington DC hosted by the Microsoft Xbox (and Games for WIndows) PR guys from the Gamerscore Blog, it was a great night and good to finally put some faces to names / gamertags / forum handles.  The event started with some […]

So, what’s been going down in my absence?  After a three month absence I thought I’d better catch up by posting my thoughts on the recent (and not so recent) news stories, so here (in no particular order) are the ones that caught my eye.
Suitably following on from my last serious post, the Apple TV […]

This week Macworld saw the launch of the Apple TV (formerly iTV), on the surface it’s a pretty good device allowing wireless transfer of video, music,
podcasts and photos from up to five Macs or PCs to your swanky HDMI compliant TV set all for a relatively reasonable $299.  Many people might immediately realise that this […]

So, I actually bothered watching the live stream of Bill Gates’ keynote at CES - I love insomnia sometimes. All in all it was relatively interesting, I paid special attention to the Xbox 360 section which announced their IPTV service (no details and cynicism/experience tells me it’ll be US only). Some cross-platform features […]

Well, I’m jumping the gun a little bit but I think it’s near enough and I need a decent topic to post about because it’s been bloody ages since my last post! About a year ago I was waiting in line at my local Gamestation having been one of the lucky few to get […]

I logged on to my Xbox 360 earlier today and as usual thought I’d check Marketplace first, I found Phantasy Star Universe under the Demos category so I thought I’d give it a go. At just under 1GB it took a while to download, but having heard about the Phantasy Star series before and […]

For me this was quite a big news item, I got into the DreamStation.cc Video Game Show podcast earlier in the year and have been an avid listener since. The podcast basically covers news, opinion and humour from the world of videogaming and was very well produced/edited compared to many other podcasts - basically […]