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  • Freedom Fighters retrospective

  • anephric 11/11/2012

    If you've still got an Xbox1 lying about to play it on, this is one of the few games that runs at 720p on it (only if your Pal box is modded, obviously). Reply +1

  • Off-screen video of Sony's Gran Turismo at 4K resolution demo

  • anephric 18/10/2012

    @ATARI

    3D's off the table because Sony, for one, have pretty much given up on it after pushing it strongly for years. No-one really buys 3D software, certainly for films, less so for games but still insignificant numbers. As you say, glasses-free 3D is what the people that ARE interested in 3D want, but even then you have to consider that 3D is a divisive technology - a lot of people (more than 1 in ten) have problems even viewing it.     Reply 0

  • Night and the City

  • anephric 17/10/2012

    I wish Team Bondi had done a Getaway set in 1950s Lambeth so I could do something like this with my dad and tell my one and only anecdote about him drinking in a club with Frankie Fraser. Reply +3

  • A Horse Named Gizmondo: The Inside Story of the World's Greatest Failed Console

  • anephric 06/08/2012

    I picked up a Gizmondo when they were out to clear for £10 and always liked its chunky design, like a nugget of Dairy Milk. It was designed by Rick Dickinson, wasn't it? I remember a big article in Edge with him talking about it. Reply 0

  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 theme composed by Trent Reznor

  • anephric 10/07/2012

    Unless Celldweller do something as cool as the Quake theme, then you're WRONG. Reply +1

  • Retrospective: Star Wars Episode I Racer

  • anephric 12/02/2012

    If you want to play the Sega arcade cab, they have LOADS at Disneyland Paris as you come out of the Star Tours ride. Reply +3

  • F2P coming to 360 next year – report

  • anephric 12/04/2011

    MS should make ALL older games free to play on Silver, like they did with Shadowrun and those other GFW titles for a bit. Once it's more than two years old - F2P for Silver. Reply 0

  • EA founder owes IRS $20m

  • anephric 28/03/2011

    Is that back duty due on 3DOs? Reply +1

  • Wahlberg takes lead in Uncharted movie

  • anephric 24/11/2010

    Exactly. Mark Wahlberg has never, EVER been funny in a film. ONCE he vaguely approached charismatic, but backed off at the last second. Why would you pass up Fillion in favour of him? A piece of me's just died inside. Reply +18

  • Retrospective: The Need for Speed

  • anephric 21/11/2010

    Isn't there a code for the 3DO version that lets you get a few extra FPS out of it by removing the rear-view and the dash instruments? I seem to remember doing that. Reply 0

  • 3DTV in every home in 8-9 years – Perry

  • anephric 05/11/2010

    Apple will never make a console? What the hell was the Pippin then? Reply +2

  • Retrospective: American McGee's Alice

  • anephric 27/09/2010

    "The most unfortunately named man in gaming managed to nail the atmosphere of Carroll's fevered, lightly sprained imagination, and bring out the implicit horrors that you can see when you re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass."

    Most Carroll scholars would disagree with you. Jonathan Miller was much more on the mark with his adaptation and its woozy wordplay, however cheaply it was conceived. McGee's Alice is more like someone adolescently railing against the cuteness of the Disney version, as Tim Burton later made us suffer through. Oooh, it's so goth.     Reply +2

  • anephric 26/09/2010

    I can't stand emo-goth "reimaginings" like this. Lewis Carroll is vitiate enough thank you without having sub-McFarlane RABBITS with DROOLING LEERING FACES.

     Reply +4

  • Retrospective: Another World 15th Anniversary Edition

  • anephric 25/04/2010

    I only got through Another World at the time with a guide, and that came after dozens of hours of trying to get through it. I used to put it on, listen to the Amiga drive gristle and grind like Gerard Butler chewing on a wasp for five minutes just to watch the intro.

    The feeling, even though it was slightly cheaply gotten, of completing the game and watching the simply beautiful end has never left me. I was obsessed with this as a teenager. I even like bits of Heart of the Alien. Sadly, by the time Heart of Darkness came out, I was more into shooting people in the face.     Reply +1

  • Banging the DRM

  • anephric 14/04/2010

    Do not copy this game. Reply +8

  • Bungie recalls "brutal" Halo 2 crunch

  • anephric 12/04/2010

    Wasn't a big reason why Ed Fries left MS to do with him bending over backwards for Bungie when Halo 2 got delayed? Reply 0

  • Halo 2 E3 demo was "smoke and mirrors"

  • anephric 12/04/2010

    Maybe Bungie should've spent a bit less time playing volleyball. Reply 0

  • GAME to shut down 43 shops in the UK

  • anephric 27/02/2010

    "On a related note, every game I've bought in the last 3 years has either been from amazon, play, or from the small chain of Playtime videogames stores. I don't know how widespread they are, but the Playtime in Nottingham seems to import American DS games like Layton/Phoenix Wright months before their release in Europe, which is a great, and as it's staffed by the same 3 guys you always get honest advice."

    Sadly, the Playtime in Derby closed down a few months ago. Which is a shame, as I always bought anything I was gonna get from the high street from there rather than Game or GS. I used to go into the local GS a lot since I knew the staff pretty well and they were all gamers and would put stuff aside for me (like if people were trading in hucards or stuff like that). Don't go in there much since it was refitted after Game bought them.

    I was a manager at a Blockies a few years ago, and it was my job to browbeat the staff about pushing the deals for that week, including the games deals. I never, ever got the staff to push something they weren't comfortable with selling or tried to get a punter to buy a crap game (I was the only one with games knowledge so that section became mine by default). Well, alright, I may have sold someone on the idea of Blade 2, but they MET ME HALFWAY, like a gazelle or something. I lasted all of six months in that job and was getting moaned at constantly by area management that I wasn't meeting the deals targets and that I couldn't be the staff's "friend".     Reply +1

  • Retrospective: Aliens vs. Predator Classic 2000

  • anephric 14/02/2010

    "Not only because it was a terrible film, but because there was something great about the two separate stories having their crossover confined to the realms of videogames."

    Well, the Dark Horse comics are the source material for them all...     Reply +1

  • Xbox Indie Games Roundup

  • anephric 25/01/2010

    Redeemed code no 4 thank you kindly. Reply 0

  • anephric 24/01/2010

    ^ All the above codes have been redeemed Reply 0

  • anephric 24/01/2010

    Leave Home
    Arkedo Swap!
    Arkedo Jump!
    Arkedo Pixel
    Johnny Platform
    Ninja Bros
    Tobe's Vertical Adventure (now it's been patched)

    These are all quite excellent and demanding of your money. Buy them now.     Reply 0

  • Retrospective: Steel Battalion

  • anephric 11/01/2010

    This sat on the shelves in my local Another World (RIP) for months and no-one was buying at their price (something like £150 for the import version). I was a shiftless waster at the time and promised myself when I got a new job I'd buy it. So I did. And happily on that day Another World decided to knock some money off it too, so I got it for about £120.

    Happy times. My girlf got very annoyed that it was set up permanently on the coffee table. Such are the trials of living with a twat.     Reply +2

  • Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond

  • anephric 11/01/2010

    And in North Haverbrook. Reply +16

  • Standard Def: The Forgotten Generation

  • anephric 25/07/2009

    It also depends on source material, i.e. an ugly-ass low-bitrate channel that looked bad at 32" is going to look much worse at 42" through an interlaced composite input. Reply +2