Recent content by Ninja Monkey

Fallout 3 - Stepping out of the vault for the first time with no proverbial arrows pointing which way I have to go, no trailers watched and no preconceptions (apart from playing the previous 2)..... ah still warms my cynical and wretched heart.

Adam the clown in the original Dead Rising gets my vote

" I finally have a girlfriend! I am so happy I'm posting it-Wait, she's also with my best friend?" My 2 cents, derived from the title and your other posts. I assume she is your first (as the title suggests), but do not get carried away. You can have friends which are female and that is a...

To clarify: Ponce - Someone who is incredibly arrogant/self centred. To whit: A person who comes to your barbeque neglecting to bring any food/refreshments, proceeds to crack open and comsume the contents of a bottle of champagne you were saving for a special occasion who then loudly and...

An insightful and well written article, thank you Mr Kline. A point I related to personally was the use of games to fill times of inactivity. Due to a series of unfortunate events last year I found myself being unemployed because of my company going into administration. Quickly realising...

As far as 'story' based single player games go, Dragon Age wins by sheer amount of hours vested in it. Single player time sink: Company of Heroes Multiplayer: Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.

The alliance treaty in question is the ANZUS treaty ratified in 1951 and is still in force (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZUS). As for the Australian conception at the time, it was viewed that Australia would be sending troops in support of the American cause, as seen by the recruitment...

Erm, the Aussies helped you out in Vietnam at America's request. Hell, they even conscripted us using what was called 'The death lottery' and televised on national TV. There were also 'Aussies' with suspiously British sounding accents as well (due to a tie up of treaties that the UK was bound up...

Good article, agree with the sense of awe when all of a sudden we could control what's on the telly. Moments like these are few and far between but still do happen occasionally even to old cynics like me. As mentioned before, Okami was one, FFVII is etched in my memory because my mate literally...