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Review: Fable III Game

  By ellybabes | October 26, 2010 - 9:08 pm | Games
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If you were a fan of Fable and Fable II, then today has probably long been circled on your calendar, as Fable III finally launched, just over a year since it was first announced. Now, full disclosure here, I’m not a big gamer overall, but when I was given a copy of Fable II, I fell in love immediately. The Fable series is characterised by a mix of fighting, solving puzzles, finding hidden objects and deciding if you want to be good or evil. The gameplay is of the style that leaves you begging for “just five more minutes”, and suddenly you look at the clock and bedtime was 3 hours ago! In Fable III, you pick up 50 years after Fable II, as the brother (or sister) of the current king, Logan. I say current as the first part of the game focuses on your path to becoming King … There’s more →

Other Voices come to Xbox Live

  By Will | August 26, 2010 - 5:21 pm | Games, Gigs, Music, Performance Art, Random Whimsy, The Internet, TV
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If you’re connected to XBox live, you might have spotted a familiar face hidden in the extensive GamesCon footage; that of Duke Special. XBox live are showing a series of the intimate “Other Voices” gigs filmed in Dingle’s St James Church. Yes, this is a shortened version of the gigs shown on RTÉ over the years, but this is something of a test. In November Microsoft XBox team expect to see a change in the types of people sitting down in from of their XBox once the Kinect arrives. Namely that of casual gamers. Namely that of people who like music. Namely that of people who would rather dance then first person shoot.

Hands on with Kinect

  By JustGeorge | August 6, 2010 - 12:16 pm | Gadgets, Games
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Last week, a few Culchies had the opportunity to preview Xbox’s newest innovation. Stephen has been talking about it all week on ChronicReload, but here’s George’s views on it. Let us know what you think…are you excited or do you feel it’s just another gimmick? - Darren So Microsoft has a new addition for the Xbox 360 and if you missed the hype about it from the last two E3‘s (although it was called Natal at E3 2009) then this (rather sarcastic) parody video should give you an idea about it. Basically it’s Microsoft’s answer to the Wii except you don’t have to hold a controller. In fact your whole body is the controller, except it’s not really, the controller sits in front of the telly and watches your every move and listens to your every word - kinda like a pet puppy except without the cuteness or the random … There’s more →

Review: Perfect Dark

  By Will | May 7, 2010 - 2:14 am | Games, The Culch
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If you played Perfect Dark on a Nintendo 64 back in 2000, then you’re going to love this game. If you were overjoyed by Rare’s earlier game “Goldeneye 007″ on any format, then you are going to love it. Otherwise, this is going to be an interesting history lesson in gaming. Actually, the Xbox 360 seems to be mining the past quite a bit at the moment between “Game Room” and its “Time Warp” events. Perfect Dark on the Xbox Live Arcade is the game updated for high definition screens and on hardware that can actually manage the frame rate lacking back in 2000. At the time it was the best, most advanced first person shooter (FPS) on the market. It even had an in-built “easy mode”, namely the “auto lock-on” feature of the weapons used to take out the security guards encountered in the game. The storyline of interstellar … There’s more →

Microsoft Game Room, stepping away from the Xbox

  By Will | March 26, 2010 - 2:29 am | Gadgets, Games
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Microsoft released their Game Room yesterday as part of their “House Party” (or “Block Party” if you live in the USA) event. Apart from some intriguing teething problems its been an interesting experiment. Essentially Game Room is a MAME type emulator of arcade games (currently limited to Atari and Konami cabinets from the late 70s and early 80s) as well as the Atari 2600 and Intellivision consoles. And these seem to be the original ROMs based on the ROM boot sequence some of the games show. The emulation is wrapped up in a customisable virtual arcade for your avatar and friends avatars to roam through. The games are OK, but the brilliance is in the execution. When you first start (provided it can connect to the game room server, that’s where the teething problems lay), you can demo the games, usually for about 10 minutes (or less if you leave … There’s more →

What PS3 game do you want for Christmas?

  By Rob Cumiskey | December 1, 2009 - 1:50 pm | The Culch
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With Christmas literally weeks away, there will be one question firmly to the front of many people’s minds. What are the latest and greatest PS3 games out there to buy for your kids? I’ve been sent a few games over the last couple of weeks by the very kind people at Sony and have put them to the test: Disclaimer - I have asked my younger sister to help out with these reviews as she is a much better judge than I of games that involve pets or singing! Take That SingStar I am not a fan of any of these kind of games. In fact, I hate them with a passion. I intensely dislike it when parties turn into karaoke sessions, and dislike a Take That addition to the franchise even more. There. That’s my gripe over with. My review would have been quite one-sided so, I requested the … There’s more →

Click: “Do You Wanna Date My Avatar” by The Guild

  By Will | August 26, 2009 - 2:25 pm | Featured Post, Music, The Culch, The Internet, TV
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Title: Do You Wanna Date My Avatar Artist: The Guild Label: unsigned but sponsored by Microsoft Release: Mp3 available for download on Amazon, and iTunes are faffing aboution the international release The Guild is a low budget TV series that never made it to the TV. The fact that each episode is only 5 minutes means that it was never intended to go to television. It did however make it to YouTube and the XBox network. Essentially The Guild is a sit-com about a group of heroes in an online fantasy world, sort of like World of Warcraft, but isn’t named. Except it isn’t. Its about the players who play the characters in this world. And the messy real world actions they take. The series was created by and all the episodes (so far) are written by Felicia Day who is indeed a bigger net head than most of the … There’s more →

Braid your own

  By Will | March 11, 2009 - 11:37 pm | Games, Random Whimsy, The Culch
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It seems that it really is the 80′s again. Recession, strikes, protests in the streets, leg warmers (well, pants tucked in socks for the same effect), writers in their bedsits trying to create the next big novel and bedroom game programmers. Oddly these nerds may be the storytellers. I’m a nerd and proud of it, however I notice trends too. Thanks to the iPhone, facebook apps and the XBox 360 developers kit (XNA) the chance exists for a single programmer to design and build his or her games. And maybe live off the proceeds. Some will take a technical problem and build a game around it (for example, building an infinite city, or getting the game characters to have realistic reactions) others will take on the social aspects of games (imagine a two player game that can only be played with those near you, beats passing notes in class, or … There’s more →