I’ve had a DS Lite for a while now, and with the exception of Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training, I’ve yet to buy a game that makes me think having a DS is worthwhile.
Perhaps I’ve chosen badly - Super Monkey Ball, Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory and Lego Star Wars II:The Original Trilogy. None of these games [...]

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Xbox Live Arcade recently posted Doom, which has now been ported to the Xbox 360.
I hadn’t played Doom for a long, long time, and something I had forgotton about was that games of this ilk - fast, moving FPS - tend to make me a little, ummm,  queasy… It used to be bad enough on a 17″ monitor, [...]

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A UK government minister has a made a plea to the video games industry to get involved in the debate about how much time kids are spending in front of their consoles.
From the article:
Last month, 100 signatories, including neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield and author Philip Pullman, wrote a letter warning that today’s children face an [...]

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Ghost Recon:Advanced Warfighter scooped the Best Game Award, along with Best Technical Achievement. And as far Xbox 360 games go, it was certainly the best game I’ve played this year.
I was surprised to see that Tomb Raider Legend pipped it for Best Original Score, because although the title/main screen track is certainly memorable, the in-game [...]

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Rather than do another “10 tips for making the front page of Digg” article, I thought I would do a short post on how to do it by combining a single, magic ingredient for lip-smacking Diggness with quotes and song titles. See if you can spot the pattern:

Wii Will Rock You
Wii shall overcome
Wii, the People
Wii Can [...]

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I’m having an emotional battle with my bloody Xbox 360! I know it’s just a bit of fun, but when I see a post like this in my Attensa folders, I feel guilty…! I actually feel guilty about  leaving the poor thing sitting there all day when I’m out - and don’t get me started [...]

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