Rev.StuartCampbell • Comments

  • SimCity review

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 15/03/2013

    It's mind-boggling to watch Stockholm-Syndrome idiots demanding review scores based on what a game might one day become, not the mess it actually is now. Reply +43

  • Food Run review

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 05/03/2013

    "I wish the whole mobile gaming 'scene' would fuck off and die."

    Why? How is it hurting you, penis-face?     Reply -3

  • Real Racing 3 review

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 28/02/2013

    An alternative view:

    http://wosland.podgamer.com/when-games-arent-expensive-enough/     Reply +1

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 28/02/2013

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  • Neo Geo X review

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 25/02/2013

    "You can also buy a brand new PSP (E1000) for £89 and install CFW 6.60."

    I thought Sony had made the newer models CFW-proof, but admittedly I last paid any attention to the situation quite a long time ago.     Reply 0

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 24/02/2013

    "For 200 bucks you can buy an xperia play, download neodroid and play most neogeo games at full emulation speed. The screen is fantastic and so is the battery life."

    Or for much less, a PSP2000 with custom firmware, which is still THE best portable emulation device around.

    (signed)
    Disappointed Xperia Play owner.     Reply +3

  • Creator of original Xbox slams Microsoft's current Xbox strategy

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 13/02/2013

    "I cant see even Apple TV having THAT much of an impact on the industry....."kill" the competition? It's that simple is it?"

    Who's making money on the 3DS and Vita? Why is that, do you think?     Reply -1

  • Earth Defence Force 2017 Portable review

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 24/01/2013

    I didn't like this review. It didn't spend nearly enough time apologising for the game's (perfectly decent) production values and qualifying its praise for one of the most awesome videogames of the last decade with "you know... for something CHEAP".

    Wait, no, the opposite thing.     Reply +1

  • Kevin Butler actor settles with Sony over Bridgestone tyre ad

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 17/01/2013

    I had to read the first two paragraphs of this story 18 times and ask someone else for help before I had the remotest idea what the fuck it was talking about. Quality work. Reply -16

  • Sony patents tech to block second-hand games

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 10/01/2013

    "I can imagine this will piss a lot of people off, but tbh I don't mind something like this. I don't think I've ever sold on a game (except the occasional refund if broken)."

    So it's fine to fuck over everyone else, so long as it doesn't affect YOU? Smashing.     Reply +1

  • App of the Day: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 10/12/2012

    Jesus, sober up you muppets. Even if it only cost them £500 to port it to the Vita and they sold it at £250 a copy they wouldn't get their money back. Reply -4

  • Cave Story creator's vertical-scrolling shmup Guxt coming to 3DS

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 15/11/2012

    Well, clearly it'd be best on iOS, which is naturally portrait-format and fantastic at shmups... Reply 0

  • Editor's Blog: New Editorial Policies

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 09/11/2012

    "I don't really think it is necessary to be honest."

    And that there is why punctuation matters, folks.     Reply +33

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 09/11/2012

    Most of these policies are commendable. But I've never seen the crime in selling on review copies - every publisher has to send review copies in order for the reviewer to do their job, so it provides no benefit to any particular publishers.

    More to the point, are EG going to increase their staff and freelancers' wages to compensate for this loss of income? Half the reason reviewers can be corrupted in the first place is because they're so poor, and all that making them even poorer will achieve is to make them more susceptible to more underhand, direct and covert bribery.     Reply +7

  • Fifth Gen iPod Touch review

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 03/11/2012

    Is there some fucking LAW against people reporting actual useful information in iPod Touch reviews, specifically the in-use battery life? I haven't seen anyone test it since the 3rd-gen devices. Reply +13

  • Editor's Blog: Lost Humanity 18 Aftermath

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 30/10/2012

    "Isn't the issue still legally Lauren Wainwright wouldn't have a chance of winning."

    Not so much that as that she wouldn't have had a chance of getting within a million miles of a court in the first place. She's simply not a credible threat, because unless her daddy's a millionaire keen to throw away a lot of cash she has no hope - not an earthly - of prosecuting a libel case in the UK.

    Now, Intent Media, on the other hand...     Reply +20

  • Lost Humanity 18: A Table of Doritos

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 28/10/2012

    "Kinda off-topic, it's more about the Kieron Gillen part.

    Have been reading his articles ever since he came on board PC Gamer back in late 90s (where everyone made fun of him for his long hair, although it looked ok if you asked me /shrug ) and I gotta say that his articles were some of the best and most enjoyable to read in the games journalism industry.

    Well deserved.

    And a loss now that he doesn't write anymore."

    Kieron pretty much single-handedly gave the GMAs credibility - without him they probably wouldn't have made it past their first year. He's been almost entirely silent over this affair, despite having set himself and some chums up as another games-writing "awards" body and pontificating regularly on the state of games journalism. Be careful where you put your faith.     Reply +7

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 25/10/2012

    "I genuine cannot believe the ridiculous over reaction to a few (in internet terms) people tweeting a particular hashtag to win a ps3"

    It's okay - that spectacular misunderstanding of what's happening today is actually the result of a slight physical defect affecting the left lobe of your brain, which can be fixed if you grab a brick and smash it as hard as you can off the side of your head a couple of hundred times. Try it now.     Reply +19

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 25/10/2012

    As Ms Wainwright appears to be the stupidest human on Earth, she's now edited her Journalisted entry to remove all mention of Square Enix. Because there are still four or five websites on the planet that haven't yet published pictures of the first version, and still a couple of people somewhere in Bhutan who don't think she was acting suspiciously enough. Reply +31

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 25/10/2012

    "This is pretty disgraceful, for someone to resort to threats of legal action because they don't like being called out. She could have demanded the right of reply, put her own version and thoughts across."

    Or EG could just have told her to fuck off. The chances of a libel case being brought were 0.00000000% (margin of error 0%). The chances of one succeeding were substantially lower. An honest and valuable writer has just been sold down the river to appease a useless, worthless shill.     Reply +90

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 25/10/2012

    "What are we now to make of The Guardian, or anything Steve Boxer ever writes?"

    The same as anyone's ever made of anything Steve Boxer writes: budgie-cage liner.     Reply +9

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 25/10/2012

    Just a quick one to both the journos and readers making excuses for hashtag posting: if it's so innocent, why do the PR people want you to do it? Reply +44

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 24/10/2012

    "Yet John Walker and Alec Meer aren't photographed sitting around with a copy of Diablo 3 in one hand and a bag of delicious Kettle Chips in the other."

    You've clearly never been to their house. That's pretty much ALL they do.     Reply +45

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 24/10/2012

    "To be fair, anyone could click the hashtag and see that it's a promoted thing. So i don't see any problem with it. It's obvious it's a promoted thing so it's not as if it's affecting anyone's buying decision."

    You should write to every company in the world and tell them you can save them billions of pounds by cancelling all their advertising. After all, everyone can see adverts are adverts, so it's not like they can affect anything.     Reply +114

  • Rev.StuartCampbell 24/10/2012

    "Didn't Mountain Dew used to be a yellow/green coloured drink?"

    That's a new limited-edition "raspberry citrus" flavour. It's TOTALLY DELICIOUS AND YOU SHOULD BUY SOME NOW. #freestuffforstuey     Reply +71