Game Spotlight: Metroid Prime Trilogy

I’ll admit right upfront that I don’t actually own Metroid Prime Trilogy for Wii yet (it comes out on October 15 down here, minus the awesome metal case…

“Look at me now.” Game characters and their new looks

When you have a character that has been around for a long time, eventually you will have to reinvent and modify certain aspects of that character…

“I was really there!” Game immersion at its best

It can be an extremely satisfying experience when you’re standing at the top of a tall Gothic styled building and looking down at a group of thugs below…

Game Spotlight: Three Wii games you don’t care about

I was going to write three separate Game Spotlights for these games, but I realised that it’d be a waste of time considering that people really don’t care about them…

Nintendo of Ausfailia

Nintendo of Australia is happy to bring out Wii Sports Resort down here as well as the Metroid Prime Trilogy later this year, but they refuse to release some other titles down here…

Game Spotlight: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

When Chinatown Wars was announced for the Nintendo DS, my interest was peaked when I saw images of an oldskool style top-down GTA of old. I was excited but still sceptical…

Fiji: The island with no vidya

Many, many years ago (in December it’ll actually be TWENTY years ago) I moved from Fiji to Australia. Before that time, I don’t remember playing any video games…

Welcome to Ausfailia (IFHTC! Part 4)

Here we are again for another edition of “I fucking hate this country”… it’s getting tiring having to write these entries up, I don’t particularly enjoy it…

Virtual Portable Console “…we have no plans for that…”

I was really sure that Nintendo would announce that the DSi would be getting “Virtual Portable Console” support during this year’s E3. After all, it makes sense on so many levels…

Game Spotlight: Red Steel

All of the Game Spotlights have been focused on highly recommended games, until now. Now it’s time to talk about a game that no one should play… no, really.

Game Spotlight: Dead Space

The first words you’ll hear anyone utter when you ask them about Dead Space is most likely going to be, “It’s like Resident Evil 4″… and it is for the most part…