Recent content by pinchy

As someone who actually lives in Christchurch I don't see why it has to be all or nothing- stick a warning label on the front or ask retailers to keep copies behind the counter or something and warn people of what's in it so that the earthquake content doesn't surprise people (and of course not...

Similar story for me, seemed about as bad as the first quake. Spent several minutes spouting profanity at the loss of a month old flatscreen- then when I calmed down and started getting calls on my mobile from a whole bunch of relatives and friends of my parents that I pretty much never talk to...

So true. I love Bioware's games but they always cause me nothing but trouble. Mass Effect has just decided to give up the ghost and crash every five minutes on me making it unplayable (and even when it did there was some really ugly graphical problems with black boxes appearing over barrels and...

Funnily enough they were asked this on Campbell Live a few weeks ago (a local current affairs show),pretty much the only thing that was able to be established from the batshit insanity was that they didn't want to get naked- not in the Hobbit mind you but in completely unrelated (and...

That's the key word here. Collective bargaining is completely legal and common in regards to employees in New Zealand- actors however are not employees, they are independent contractors (i.e- they are on fixed-term contracts, they get many tax benefits but don't enjoy holiday pay and some...

I don't know how things work in other parts of the world but I thought the house analogy worked to an extent. There's a local development where if you wanted to buy a house there you had to agree to a rediculous numbers of conditions as to what you would do with the property (i.e- you could only...

Was pretty much my thoughts, especially given how the government there has been going to rediculous lengths to mess Blizzard around with WOW in China of late. Even if it was technically illegal (really I have no idea whether it would be or not in China) nothing meaningful would be done about it...

To me this is the exact opposite of consequences, finishing the story as one of the other characters (from either the first or second game) would have not only been fun but would have meant that your choices in ME2 had meaning. Saying oh yeah if you reached one of the endings you have to start...

My thoughts exactly, I don't want to pirate stuff but if they did pull down the online activation servers as Shamus is warning us about that's what i would do seeing I'd already paid for the game. Granted I still dislike online activation but there are so many other things that also annoy me...

Isn't the title a bit overdramatic? I mean having seen the actual pictures from that photoshoot they don't really match up with the image that springs to mind when I hear the term "porn". Yeah, she wasn't wearing anything in some of those pictures, but nothing was actually showing, I've seen...

While I totally agree that some games just take far too much of a commitment in terms of time to play through (like starting to play a new MMO) Mass Effect 2 is a pretty bad example. Ok I did spend pretty much the entire weekend after I bought it pretty much doing nothing but sleeping, eating...