Entries in 'Gaming'

Oh, Nintendo, you are cunning. Cunning like the fox.

November 14th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 2 Comments

Apparently, this Christmas, there will be a shortage of Nintendo Wii (Whatt he hell is the plural of Wii, anyway? Wiis? We?). This is in no way an attempt on the part of Nintendo to increase demand. Certainly not. Why ever would anyone think such a thing? In fact, suggesting that Nintendo are deliberately [...]

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A Question of Sport

October 8th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · No Comments

In an era when one’s sporting heroes are depressingly likely to turn out to be lying, drug-addled cheats who wouldn’t know an honest day’s steroid-free training if it jumped up and bit them in their lying, drug-addled behinds (Hi, Marion!), it’s nice to see that Great Britain can still turn out a good, clean winner. [...]

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Is Your MMOG Buddy a… Transsexual?? (cue shock music: da-da-daaaaaah!)

September 26th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · No Comments

Today in our brand new feature “Seriously, that’s an issue for you? Ummm, OK, well, I’ll be over here being, y’know, normal” Timothy Burke over at Terranova has a thoughtful discussion of reports that a Chinese MMOG has suspended the accounts of players whose avatars (and those readers of a genteel disposition may wish [...]

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Halo, Sailor…

September 25th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 2 Comments

Look, I’m as in favour of User-Generated-Content as the next journalist who can’t be bothered to write their own copy and thinks that the rantings of five racists from provincial market towns more than adequately makes up for the dearth of expertise in contemporary news media, but I can’t help but feel that the BBC, [...]

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Geek Love

September 5th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · No Comments

Conceivably it’s the heat here in Baltimore, but I found this article by Margaret Robinson to be rather cute. Apparently the kids these days don’t meet up at the roller disco to find romance, they go dragon-slaying….

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