Must. Write.
By xibxang | August 27, 2008
I really need to give myself a shake. I’ve been struggling to get myself kick-started back into games blogging for a while now. I sit in front of my computer, pull up the WordPress blogging screen and then *click*, my mind goes blank.
It’s not that I don’t have a gamut of material hanging around at the back of my head. I recently traded in my PS3 and bought an Xbox360 Elite and fell right back into online gaming again. I’d tried so hard to be content with the PSN online service and even bad-mouthed Xbox LIVE in the past for being full of whiny kids; with my own words made by my own mouth in my own podcast! In the end though, I had to admit that Microsoft do seem to have Sony licked for now.
But it’s not just that. I bought Rock Band when I got my 360 and even bought the drums, fercryingoutloud!! Add Guitar Hero III and its controller to that mix and I’ve got the geek Rock God dream. Mine! In my house! For me to play! Which I often do! Ohmygodthat’ssoexciting!
Myself, Uzi and the GamerDork gang have even built up a fine Call of Duty 4 brigade. We’ve become the finest armchair Band of Brothers you ever did see. Hootin’ and Hollerin’ all over Bog (The venga bus is comin’!) and Wet Work; even to the point where we’re trying to play semi-seriously, complete with tic-tactics and ho-ho-holding positions. Hell, I’ve made it to level 30 within a week of playing.
But can I get this pig-headed dome of mine to put the experience into prose? Can I whut. I’ve drank almost a litre of milk while typing this much. I feel bloated although I’m slightly less verbally constipated now I see this much shit in my metaphorical toilet pan. Oh man, what a lousy analogy.
Maybe I’ll get myself kicked off with talking about the news some. Stay tuned. I promise I’ll be back soon. Someone pass me some toilet paper, please? Guys?
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Who says you can’t go home again?
By Morrius | August 20, 2008
After a year without Xbox live, I signed into the service last night. Having spent the last few months with the PS3, I’d all but forgotten the impact of Xbox Live on both the individual user and the industry as a whole. How then, after a prolonged experience with PSN, does a return to Xbox Live feel?
Topics: Blog, PlayStation 3, Xbox360 | 5 Comments »
Listeners, we have a problem…
By Uzi | August 19, 2008
Unfortunately my headset mic stopped working a few days ago so the next podcast will be delayed until the replacement arrives. In the meantime, me and Xib have been spending some quality time on Xbox Live playing games like COD4, so if you want to play with us and find how that we can talk the talk, but definitely not walk the walk, just post on our forum and we’ll arrange a game.
Uzi
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New fatalities and old friends
By qazimod | August 10, 2008
Forgive the hint of self-pity in this little post, but yesterday afternoon I went out to town to look for random gaming tat, came home with a copy of Edge and Shenmue II for the Xbox, burnt a manual update to a CD and installed it, and upon firing up the 360 to play the game for a second time later that day, was greeted by three flashing red lights. Of course, we all think that it’s never going to happen to us, because we don’t have the marathon gaming sessions other people do, and our rooms are dust free and we’re careful with our kit. Alas, no-one is safe, and when I was greeted with that fatal error, I did what any other gamer would do, and pretend I didn’t see it and reset. Unfortunately, it’s still there, so I’ve got to sort out a UPS collection whilst everyone else enjoys things like Braid and the forthcoming Bionic Commando remake. Boo. Thankfully, though, it’s not my only console…
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DorkCast022: SHIT TANK PANTS !
By xibxang | August 9, 2008
And we’re back! Uzi is still a little scared from a east london gangster hunting his missing underpants but Xib backs him up in Dorkcast 22 where we discuss how gaming special edition stuff should be made and of course what we’ve been playing- from Braid, Geometry Wars 2 to FFVII Crisis Core and why people in Battlefield need driving licenses.
We also speak about some incoming games that we’re looking forward to, covering Project Origin and Skate 2 this week. Enjoy!
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Dorkcast 22- it’s going to be a liiiittttlle delayed
By Uzi | August 5, 2008
Sorry guys- we tried to get it recorded at some point- but that horrible thing called REAL LIFE ™ got in the way last weekend as it rarely sometime does.
We promise a belter show for the weekend though
Love you all
The Gamerdork Team xxx
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DorkCast021: Hot from the heat
By xibxang | July 28, 2008
An insanely hot Saturday evening and the heat has got to these podcaster’s brains. They manage nevertheless to have a good old fantug of how great batman is in general and how 2008 is looking to be a very strong year for games.
Also in what have you been playing we cover gems like professor lolton, ninja gaiden dragon sword, resistance and the upcoming pixeljunk eden.
Oh and we also put fanboys in their place: Hell.
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DorkCast020: Surprise!
By xibxang | July 21, 2008
Yeah yeah. We said we weren’t going to do one this week because we’d burned out after E3. You know how it is though. You just can’t hold us crazy guys down!
This week we have a right old butcher’s at some of the third-party titles from E3 like Quantum of Solace, Dead Space, Alpha Protocol, Prince of Persia and Tomb raider: Underworld. Uzi shows his lust for all things James Bond while denying he even knows who the man is and Rubicon Head admits that he used to watch his movies for the flange.
Other games that we natter about include Oblivion and BioShock. Just wait until you hear Uzi’s review of Dino Run! Oh, just you wait…
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Guitar Hero: On Tour
By qazimod | July 20, 2008
Even without a perpetual stream of announcements regarding frequent new downloadable content, or invites popping up on Live whenever I seem to log on these days, it’s hard to ignore the success of Harmonix’s hugely ambitious - and hugely successful - Rock Band, and it makes you think about the Guitar Hero series in general and it’s place in modern gaming culture. As someone who plays guitar for real as a way of relaxing, I found the introduction of the genre - from reading bits and pieces about early projects such as Guitar Freaks, to GH1 storming the west on PS2 - fascinating, and I’ve enjoyed every instalment of the game to date (well, every major instalment; I missed out on Rocks the ’80s and Aerosmith…) So what are you supposed to think when Guitar Hero: On Tour is announced for - of all platforms - the Nintendo DS? Released last Friday over here, I picked up a copy yesterday…
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DorkCast E3 2008 Special: Sony Conference
By xibxang | July 15, 2008
After the Nintendo show, the mood could have been easily improved and we were hoping Sony would do just that. Despite lots of boring sales and corpy talk inbetween, there was a good showing of a few key games and a distinct lack of showing of another. xib has about five orgasms in this one; it’s a scary noise.
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