Think you're good at video games?

You're not as good as this guy...

One of my favourite games of all time, Ikaruga, pwnd by some ambidextrous dood.



When oh when will Treasure bring this to the PSN? :(

[pabloamigo]

Intro Movie to General Knoxx DLC

invasion stockpile!? *does a small sex wee*

Broken Game?

Players across multiple regions are reporting technical issues with their copies of Heavy Rain, with word of out-of-sync audio, full-on freezes, and unloadable auto-saves filling the official forums, giving players an ironic taste of the depression the game explores.

Despite having to download a rather substantial patch on launch day, or perhaps because of it, players in North America and Europe are experiencing glitches with Heavy Rain.

Some users are experiencing more severe issues. Reports of the game locking up at various points are common, and an issue with auto-saves not loading and players having to go back hours in the game to find a working restart point.

Players on the U.S. PlayStation forums have been very vocal about their complaints, particularly in one topic simply titled "Problems with Heavy Rain!".

Nearly Time to Kick Arse

Spent a few hours last night in the dusty town of New Haven tweeking my weapon loadout and selling off a few unneeded items at the gun shop, i'm currently walking around equiped with $2,000,000 worth of uber rare gear. I paid a trip to the bank in the Underdome too and deposited 36 rare gold weapons, i have no idea what that lot's worth, but no raiding the bank, i'll hunt you down and it will be very very hurty!

Later on i decided to spend some R+R time hunting skaggs in Skagg Gully and took on not one, not two, but 3 Lv51 badass Skaggs at once, silly silly skaggs -haha- look at them burn, burn you evil glowy eyed bitey things burn! for that i picked up 2 elemental power globes that i equiped which took my ignite and corrode effect up to level 6, maxed. I did bump into Ninetoes on the way home and remembered him from the Underdome matches a while back, he got killed to death in a hellstorm of incendary SMG rounds, poor chap, but he did start it! and it turns out he was carrying quite the stash of cash, so i guess he had been doing alright for himself in the arena matches lately, that'll buy me some nice new sexy knickers!

Sandbox games, nothing better than making up your own stories as you go along.

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Borderlands DLC. Thursday.

With a raised level cap, tweaked enemy AI, and new villains, weapons, and vehicles, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx is Borderlands' biggest dose of downloadable content yet, and it's due out Thursday.

Developer Gearbox wasn't kidding when they said this would be the largest Borderlands DLC yet. For starters, the level cap is being raised from 50 to 61.

Then there are all the new additions. Players should be pleased with the addition of ultra-rare, super-powerful weapons, new vehicles, including one all four players can ride at once, and nearly 30 new villains to kill in creative ways. Be warned, however, that Gearbox has also tweaked the enemy AI, so don't expect these new guys to be pushovers.

All of this is wrapped inside a storyline that picks up where the original game left off, tucked inside of an update nearly twice the size of The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned.

It's going to be a very busy week for Borderlands players.

Cabela's Dangerous Adventures

This is no Hello Kitty Safari Adventure! in fact this game has no right to be any good at all, it's american, it's based on a rugged man sport, and it's by a dev i've never heard of... but on loading it up the intro movie is of a man being chased by a massive psycotic looking bear through some woods, shortly before getting his face eaten off. Good start i say.

Imagine if you can a world that is a cross between FarCry and Afrika, except in this world you don't shoot the animals with a camera, you just shoot them while shouting 'It's Comnig Right For Us'. The graphics are very passable infact whether you're sneeking through the grass of the African plains or hunting bears in Alaska and locations inbetween. You have a large range of customisable weapons and kit and the guns are chunky and good to shoot., but seeing as this is a hunting game there are no' full auto jobs in thebox :)

A bullet point on the box mentions 'hand to claw combat' and this does put the willies up you, but it is little more than a few QTE flicks of the pad and you'll soon be smashing your rifle butt into a hyena's face or stabbing coogars in the neck with your hunting knife, good times! i wonder how PETA feels about that though?

The shooting them in the face side of things works and if you pull off a great shot it goes into bullet time and you see the projectile whipping through the air and slamming home into your target before a stat' card pops up on the screen with your score on. you can use downed gazelles as lion bait too.

You can track animals too, set up ground blind hides, just wander around enjoying the scenary.. shortly before getting bit in the leg by an angry snake you've just troddden on or stung by hornets! As a hunter you are obviously equiped with a 'solid eye' system, well, a cheaper version off and activating you 'hunter vision' you can bring up HUD info about the animals you're slaking or highlight tracks etc, odd but it works and you don't have to us it.

Overall, if you like sneeking around and killing furry animals and occasionally getting mauled to death by a pack of wild dogs this game will do you.

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M.A.G.s lost little Brother?

Like playing in teams? like objective based gameplay? like open battle field environmnets? have a natural distrust of games reviewers? got a spare £10 and a local gamestore trade-in bin near by?

if you answered yes to any of those questions you can do worse than the long forgotten ET: Quake Wars. OK, so it's not the greatest looking game in the world, but it is fun! and who doesn't have a warm fluffy spot for play as the Strogg? or stomping around the battlefield in a killer mech'?

what games do you have that got panned in the reviews but decided to take a chance on and still hold dear to your hearts?

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*Takes off glasses, shakes out hair*

New IT Support Barbie was unveiled at the recent New York Toy Fair, and looks set to bring women's toys bang up to the... 1970s. Boasting a predictably pink mini laptop (looks like something from Asus), glasses (nice bit of geek stereotyping) and a bluetooth headset, Barbie is now all set to... work in a low-level call centre role. It's what all modern girls should aspire to.

According to the BBC, new Hot Geek Barbie came into being thanks to an online internet poll to decide which career path the nipple-free bimbo should take next, with the position of "Computer Engineer" eventually winning out. She's even got a watch. It's digital, because she finds ones with hands a bit hard.

Track Days: Day 200

Ok grease monkeys, i have pulled into the pit lane on day 200 of my GTpsp racing career to take a breather and let you know how it's going. first off i have won 243 races, own 79 cars, have an S18 A3 B6 C4 Ai driver skill level (think GT4 'B' spec but for online racing) i've earned 19,396,757Cr and have 2,093,487Cr left in the bank. hey it costs cash if you Gotta Catch 'em All.

comparing GT:PSP, GT4 and GT5:P i notice that GT4 is actually the tougher of the 3 to drive, it may be down to the lack of progressive throttle/brake but also it doesn't flash up gear hints either making you actually learn the braking points yourself rather than rely on the game to tell you when to brake, GT:PSP feels like GT4 to drive using the X and square buttons and the D-pad to steer. when i went back to race in GT4 i was shocked at how it felt, the handling was much more raw than the finely tweeked machine of GT5:P, but i looked at all the gold trophies and figured i must have been able to drive the hell out of GT4 once, and after an hour of practice i was back into the groove of it again. it's surprising just how far the graphics have progressed in these last 5 years and just how tuned the physics model is.

i guess i finally got fed up of waiting for GT5 after the notice that we won't be getting it until September (latest OPM) so i figured i'd load GT4 into my PS3 and play that again instead. it does look nice and solid running in 1080p and having 5.1 Audio, i wonder if GT5 will have the syncronised playback feature? i think they should also include the Challenge mode from Tourist Trophy to get some of the more specialised vehicles, in that you went to the dealerships and picked a bike, but instead of paying for it you had to complete a racing challenge with it, usually just beating a similar spec bike in a race, before you could own it. that makes much more sense to me that just spamming an easy race for the Cr and buying up all the most powerfull cars that you can't actually drive properly.

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A bit of light reading!

Collectors Editions eh!?!



Limited edition consoles, crappy 'art' cards or a soundtrack featuring Leona Lewis! What depths will publishers sink to next...getting us to buy limited edition strategy guides?

Oh, well ok then, I'll take one.

Just hope it turns up on the same day as the game now. In a moment of sheer, brilliant coincidence, I am off work THE DAY FF13 IS RELEASED & THE DAY AFTER. Thank you window-fitting gods!

11 hours into my warmup (cough***Star Ocean***) but may need to pick up the pace a little as I'm not even at the second boss yet! Still, tis an enjoyable romp so far and recommended if you've got a spare 30-40 gaming hours before 9th March.