Recent content by HammerIntoAnvil

It's a good article, picking up a lot of points about EA's current monetisation policies. I wish you'd brought SimCity into it though. From the sounds of it, what the Sims community is going through now is similar to what SimCity fans went though with the progression from the feature rich...

She says exactly why in her blog post: she felt ashamed, she didn't want to spoil the party and didn't want the attention. This is just one of the reasons why rape and sexual assault often go unreported and why creeps think they can get away with things like getting their dick out in public...

I once saw a drunk being thrown off the bus. His final word in the matter was to lunge back on and yell "Ya fuckin trumpet". I still have no idea why that would be insulting.

Really? I find it hard to find people who find her watchable! All she does is shriek. I despise Scott Pilgrim. It's trite fanwank (albeit with pretty cool art), but everyone else seems to think it was shat out by Jesus himself.

It's only partially for us as gamers. The major development houses are already touting their awesome next gen engines. Square-Enix want a piece of that action, and they need to get developers interested in their wares.

Browsing GAME's website while wondering what to spend my £5 voucher and £5 worth of GAME Points on, I noticed that most of the triple-A titles from the last few months are out of stock as new. That's my last purchase from GAME sorted anyway.

For those interested in the survival of GAME as an entity, it's interesting to watch the market performance of it's shares and the interplay between major holders of shares. First of all, a large chunk of game (more then half in fact) is held by investment funds and hedge funds. The...

I wouldn't take this is a sign that Zynga is about to tank. It's not uncommon for large companies to see temporary drops in stock price following reports. That said, Zynga is horrifically over valued (due to social gaming being a relatively unknown investment oppertunity). It's deflation is...

The same reason that point and shoot cameras make a shutter noise - it'll have been based on a peice of tech that did once make that noise and now people expect it ;) /smartass

Mostly from Amazon, although some CE stuff from Game. There are nearly no local game stores left in Scotland, or most the rest of the UK thanks to Game's rapid expansion and ability to undercut the competition. That's coming back to bite them now, with the supermarkets using the same tactic...

There have been calls for an AD&D reprint for a good few years now. It's good that Wizards have finally decided it makes enough economic sense to actually do it. Shame it's a limited printing though - it makes me think that few copies will make it outside of the US.