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 […]

So everyone’s buzzing about Microsoft buying Yahoo and I’ve been trying to work out what my opinion is. My first thoughts were that (in Search at least) it’s just one ‘also ran’ buying another ‘also ran’, nothing too inspiring. I still think that’s true but it’s worth underscoring the fact that Microsoft are betting their […]

I’ve given up, that’s it - I finally admitted that the PS3 is worthless as a games console and I’ve traded-in all of my PS3 games. Admittedly I only had three, but those three are often the subject of much adoration from Sony fanboys desperate to justify their expenditure, for me they break down as […]

I was just posting in the Call of Duty 4 thread over on Red Rant and mentioned that I think COD4 deserves a spot in my Top 5 First Person Shooter games, that lead me to start wondering - what are my Top 5 FPS games?  It’s a tough call as it’s my favourite genre of video games so it’s like choosing between children, to make life easier I’ve limited this to the multiplayer (deathmatching) […]

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 […]

What websites do you visit every day?
Submitted by Chez Michelle.
I’m an avid gamer, techie and current-affairs junkie so I check…

The Gamercast Network - website for a series of podcasts and a brilliant good-natured forum as well.
Eurogamer - great news site for games and a rare gem of European based news.
BBC News - my absolute favourite […]

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 […]

I know it’s cheesy but I thought I’d do a little roundup of 2006 and then later on a series of predictions for 2007. The lists are all Top Fives and are based on techie stuff unless otherwise stated.
1. Podcasting
I had a look in 2005 and there really wasn’t any great content out there, I […]