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• EA wants its peers to be Apple, Google, Facebook, not Take-Two, Activision and Ubisoft

• Redeye 25/10/2012

  EA - talking absolute bollocks since...well, before Trip sold up. Reply +2

• What if people don't like Jon Hare's first original game since Sensible Software?

• Redeye 17/10/2012

  Would love a Wizball conversion (note: not a remake, re-imagining or any other such nonsense)...wonder if Jon managed to get the rights back from Ocean? Reply +1

• Lords of Midnight creator Mike Singleton dies

• Redeye 16/10/2012

  A true legend of the industry and a really nice guy; had the pleasure of meeting him when the first Midwinter was doing the promotional rounds.
  
  RIP, good sir. Reply +9

• EA's Gibeau claims it isn't neglecting single player games after all

• Redeye 07/09/2012

  Frank Gibeau - taking the art of talking absolute bollocks to near-transcendental levels.
  
  Here's a thought, Frank - how about you just go away now, shut your piehole and never darken our doorsteps again? Reply +1

• Eurogamer.net Podcast #122: 1986-1992 A History

• Redeye 01/08/2012

  1986...the year I started working in this nuthouse of an industry.
  
  Ouch. :/ #notgettinganyyounger Reply +1

• X-Wing Retrospective

• Redeye 01/07/2012

  I shed a tear for each passing moment that beautiful, compelling, entertaining, downright bastard-hard games like X-Wing and TIE Fighter are left to rot in the dim-and-distant.
  
  I can only dream instead of what they would look like on current and next-gen systems, not to mention the latest ninja PCs - it would be glorious, and many more hours of my life would be lost to them. Reply +11

• EA's E3 2012 Conference

• Redeye 04/06/2012

  The shout to West and Zampella must have had old Bobby choking on someone's freshly-roasted soul. Reply +5

• New Star Wars franchise to be unveiled next week

• Redeye 27/05/2012

  Some blinding responses (Star Wars: Cribbage and Chewbacca's Hair Salon should by all rights be dead certs), but I'd be more than happy with an HD update of the SNES trilogy.
  
  And X-Wing/TIE Fighter.
  
  And Dark Forces.
  
  Just a shame that what I'm expecting will end up more along the lines of Super Bombad Racing/Masters Of Terror's Khazi/anything that involves the word 'prequel'... Reply +1

• Angry Birds Space won't release on Windows Phone

• Redeye 23/03/2012

  (Greed + delusion + arrogance)x10 to the power of shitloads = Peter Vesterbacka.
  
  Another pompous fucktard who I'd quite happily see take a long stroll off a short cliff.
  
  EDIT: Let me guess, negged by an AB fan? Or a moron? More to the point, whatever. Reply -1

• Capcom's Svensson: tokens will replace discs five years from now

• Redeye 15/03/2012

  @Bertie: "Or perhaps he means that you'll buy a bag of plastic tokens for a game and have to insert them into a token-taking console box."
  
  Coin-op-style pay-to-play dynamics from what was one of ye olde arcade's more successful manufacturers = unsurprising, really.
  
  @TheDarkFurie: "Seems a lot of people have misunderstood this article. He's saying that serious purchases by gamers will most likely be online only. The toys and figurines will be included in retail purchases to increase the perceived value of the package to buyers who don't know better (grandparents, the generation who only buy games with plastic instruments inside) and may be put off by buying a code."
  
  Exactly. If and when physical media goes out of the window, the more casual buyers out there won't be too enthused about paying forty to fifty sheets for what amounts to a scratchcard (whereas the likes of most people here won't give a rat's backside as long as they can DL and play their game ASAP). Hence the inclusion of figurines, plushies and other related gubbins that serve to convince said casual buyers that they're getting value for money.
  
  (Even if the game itself is a fetid pile of dingo's kidneys, but that's another argument altogether.) Reply 0

• Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Preview: Revenge of the Fallen

• Redeye 12/03/2012

  "When are we gonna start bustin' Deceptichops?"
  
  *gets in quote and query in one fell 'Swoop'* ;) Reply +1

• GAME firesale extends to hardware, "Spring Clean" promotion launched

• Redeye 09/03/2012

  This afternoon's experiment - see how much old crap I could theoretically buy for a tenner. I say theoretically, because I'd rather stick a hand grenade in my backside and pull the pin rather than actually give GAME a single penny of my hard-earned. Reply -6

• Next Xbox won't have a disc drive - report

• Redeye 09/03/2012

  Heh, I can see it now...something that's like a tiny Atari VCS (resplendent with faux-wood panelling), but utilising cartridges the size of a garden shed. Marketed as the first home system where you have to plug the console into the game... ;) Reply +3

• Videoed London riots PSP robbers found guilty

• Redeye 02/03/2012

  @ironic_war_criminal: For a start, please don't try to put words into my mouth; not once did I put you on any side but your own. What I will call you out on is your own sense of moral arrogance and pompous bullshit that you seem to think puts you on superior ground to everyone else. But you go right ahead and giddy-up. Reply +5

• Redeye 02/03/2012

  Ah, ironic_war_criminal, it all must look so very different to you up there, sitting on your moral high horse...you throw the word 'sociopath' around like confetti, whilst casting aspertions upon all and sundry who are rightly aggrieved with the scumbags (and let's not argue the toss here, for that is indeed what they are) responsible for this act of malicious greed and violence. And whilst the 'torches and pitchforks' mentality might not be the best recourse in terms of dealing with these lowlife scrotes, actually setting an example of them so that others of their ilk might, just might think twice about doing something similar to someone else in the future wouldn't be a bad place to start. Reply +15

• Battlefieldo organising, threatening EA/DICE with 24-hour Battlefield 3 blackout

• Redeye 23/02/2012

  Waaaaahhmbulance etc. Reply 0

• Jaffe: Developers should focus on gameplay, not story

• Redeye 10/02/2012

  Not often I agree with Jaffe (my own considered opinion is that the man is a colossal self-aggrandising bell-end), but in this instance he's spot-on. Sure, there's room for games to tell a tale in the playing, but if the gameplay is worse than a bag of rancid arse, then what's the point?
  
  I don't believe it's a case of omitting storylines from games altogether (hell, even the old coin-ops of yore had a simple plot for everything else to hang on), but the focus should be entirely based around making the game itself entertaining and enjoyable to play, and not just a vaguely-interactive animation. Reply 0

• Activision promises "meaningful innovation" in next Call of Duty

• Redeye 10/02/2012

  Activision + innovation = don't make me laugh...this has got shareholder-pleasing BS written through it like a stick of ancient, mouldy seaside rock.
  
  EDIT: To whomever was so kind as to neg me for this, I can only assume you're either an Acti shill, a halfwit, a spotty 12-year-old COD fanatic or quite possibly all of the above. Reply +1

• Pixel Art: The End of an Era?

• Redeye 18/11/2011

  There's more than enough room for pixel-based spritework and normal-mapped polymodels in this great big world of ours - heck, I'm still bashing pixels and loving every minute of it. :D Reply 0

• Game Group suffers from "extraordinary" economic times

• Redeye 16/11/2011

  Sainsburys FTW...better launch prices by far, and no harrassment by clueless cretins. Reply +18

• Factor 5's cancelled Sony exclusive detailed

• Redeye 07/11/2011

  Rogue Squadron reboot for 360/PS3/PC, if you please LucasArts, and get Factor 5 on it like yesterday. Reply +2

• FIFA Football PlayStation Vita pics

• Redeye 24/10/2011

  Got to agree with Beano - they might (possibly) be Vita assets in those pics, but those sure as hell aren't native platform-derived shots. Reply +1

• 49% of gamers don't buy DLC - report

• Redeye 20/10/2011

  Will not pay to unlock disc content. Ever. Reply 0

• Batman online pass unlocks Catwoman

• Redeye 13/10/2011

  I'll buy the game, but shelling out an extra 800 moon sponds to play as Catwoman? I don't think so.
  
  Reply +3

• MS "targeting" 25th Nov for XBL update

• Redeye 10/10/2011

  Silverlight would probably explain why the Beeb's listing doesnt state anything about iPlayer. Won't be surprised to see some sort of rebranded port, though. Reply +1