Genome • Comments

• Jurassic Park mod would be impressive even without John Williams' score

• Genome 03/01/2013

  God help us, we're in the hands of modders. Reply 0

• Favela map returns to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 after offensive image is edited

• Genome 23/10/2012

  @BlackWolfX The problem was that a text mentioning Allah was placed above a toilet. According to religious text and preachings, that's offensive to Allah.
  
  EDIT: Well, deleting your post is hardly sporting, now is it? Reply +11

• US Senate candidate criticised for playing WoW

• Genome 05/10/2012

  *looks at GOP platform*
  
  And the GOP needs to stop living in the 1950s.
  
  (Although 1950s might be too kind.) Reply +11

• Retrospective: Project IGI

• Genome 23/09/2012

  Two levels were absolute bastards in this game: the one where your helicopter has been shot down and you've lost all your equipment and there's fucking mines everywhere. And of course the final level, where you'd turn a corner and a turret would tear you in two. But at least I beat it. Once. After a few months of being pissed at it.
  
  Still a fantastic game. Not to mention that the main character is a Welshman, which must be rare in video games. At least it was rare enough in 2001 that reviews always mentioned it. :D Reply +5

• Richard Garriott's Ultimate Collector will be published by Zynga

• Genome 10/09/2012

  They have millions of eyeballs

  But I do have a dungeon filled with macabre items. I have five vampire hunting kits, three shrunken heads, two mummies, two full-size - three actually now - skeletons in coffins. I have human hearts, a human foetus.

  Oh, it's a common interest thing then? Good for Richard, it's always nice to talk to people with the same hobbies. Reply +7

• Angry Birds Trilogy will be getting DLC

• Genome 28/08/2012

  It's Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio.
  
  And it's a complete ripoff. Reply +50

• Sony Gamescom Conference

• Genome 14/08/2012

  It sounds like Pete Smith and Richard Quest, BUSINESS TRAVELLER! were separated at birth. Reply 0

• Ty the Tasmanian Tiger returns

• Genome 28/07/2012

  If we absolutely have to have a game involving Tasmanian animals, I want the Tasmanian Devil doing spin attacks. Don't forget Taz! Reply 0

• Torchlight 2 is roughly four times the size of Torchlight

• Genome 23/07/2012

  Number of servers required to be up for single player: 0 Reply +54

• Uniloc founder hits back after Minecraft fans vent fury in "disgusting" emails

• Genome 23/07/2012

  Uniloc wants a trial by jury in the Eastern District of Texas.

  Well, no surprises there.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_District_of_Texas#Patent_litigation Reply +15

• Gears of War: Judgment gameplay trailer

• Genome 05/06/2012

  "The Mechanic's of Overrun"
  
  *cringe* Reply +3

• Microsoft's E3 2012 Conference

• Genome 04/06/2012

  If anyone needs to go the bathroom, this is the part where you do that. XBOX! TELENOVELA! Reply 0

• 2K's XCOM delayed a year

• Genome 23/05/2012

  There's a "traditional" XCOM being released later this year. Fans have been outraged by this version.
  
  I'm betting that they're taking this year to purge the game of XCOM references and we'll see it in 2013 as something completely different. Same storyline, same characters, same setting, no XCOM. Reply +2

• App of the Day: Pandemic 2.5

• Genome 19/05/2012

  MADAGASCAAAAAR! Reply 0

• Diablo 3 servers "at full capacity" following midnight launch

• Genome 15/05/2012

  No worries, I'm certain that we can all just play the single player in offline mode.
  
  Oh. Right. Reply +25

• Star Trek, Champions Online 2010 hack evidence discovered

• Genome 26/04/2012

  It took them 16 months to notice this!? Somebody potentially accessed credit card info, billing addresses and complete names and this went unnoticed for almost a year and a half!?
  
  Yeah, this is unforgivable. I was kind of interested in Neverwinter, but I'm not giving Cryptic any information at all in the future. Reply +5

• Prey 2 still alive

• Genome 19/04/2012

  It's nice to see that when it comes to Prey, they keep development traditions alive.
  
  However, it would be nice if this didn't mean a development cycle of 11 years this time. Reply 0

• App of the Day: Hoggy

• Genome 11/03/2012

  that looks a bit like various Super Mario Bros. games
  
  A bit?! Come on, be honest. The blocks, the outlined boxes, the grass textures, the urns, the keys, the pipes... It's a fun game, but I'd have liked it more if they'd done some actual work with the art. Reply -1

• Assassin's Creed 3 will be "back to basics"

• Genome 09/03/2012

  "In AC3, we promise you that within 30 seconds of putting the disc in the tray, you will in fact be assassinating someone. That's a promise."
  
  It's the "Crate Review System" for a modern era!
  
  And I must say that I'm not really that interested in the new setting. The thing that was absolutely fascinating about AC1, 2, B and R was that they were taking place in eras that are - and let's be honest here - becoming less remembered as the years go on. The Americans never, ever, ever shut up about their Revolutionary War, but the Crusades and the Italian Renaissance aren't really covered that much in history classes these days. "Crusades: Well, the Christian church really didn't like Islam so they tried to wipe it out. Didn't really work out." and "Renaissance: It's Da Vinci and Michelangelo and the 'rebirth' of the classical era. Next time period!" That's what made the earlier games so fascinating. Reply +5

• Epic announces Infinity Blade: Dungeons

• Genome 07/03/2012

  Epic, if this is being developed by Chair again and you're not letting them do a Shadow Complex sequel, I will be very upset. Reply +3

• Minecraft will launch on Xbox without Kinect

• Genome 05/03/2012

  "Functionality will be added at a later date" is sort of what Minecraft is all about. :D Reply +5

• Mass Effect 3 live action trailer debuts

• Genome 27/02/2012

  Running, gunning, not saying a word. It requires no more acting ability than the shampoo ads I'm certain he's done over the years.
  
  But actually showing Shephard would have added a bit more Mass Effect-feel to it. Shephard doesn't talk in the 3 minute "Take Earth Back"-trailer either.
  
  Oh well, missed opportunity.
  
  (Awaits FemShep fanboys screaming about "Real" Shephard) Reply +1

• Genome 27/02/2012

  Considering that this was a non-speaking role, why the hell wouldn't you dump some extra dollars into getting Mark Vanderloo in front of the blue screen and doing all the Shepard stuff? There was no talking in this ad, so that's not a problem. If his hair has grown out, ask him to shave his head. Again. You did it once before to get a face scan, might as well do it again instead of hiring somebody who doesn't look like the default Shepard at all.
  
  Morons. Reply 0

• 5 minutes of Far Cry 3 gameplay

• Genome 20/02/2012

  Is that Nolan North as the player character? Reply +2

• Amazing Spider-Man trailer swings in

• Genome 16/02/2012

  Spectacular, sensational, amazing and apparently a New York devoid of all human life... Spidey is swinging across what looks like lower Manhattan and there's not even ten cars on the street, not to mention that I can't actually see a single pedestrian.
  
  smoothpete: New movie Spidey has mechanical web shooters. Reply +7