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″ [...]

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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 [...]

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