Huge appreciation goes out to everyone who showed up for our PlayStation HOME invasion last night, it was a better turn out than we could have ever imagined it would be.
Feel free to reclaim your HDD space now knowing that you all, in some small way, changed the way we will think of HOME from now on.

Today is GamerDork.net’s second birthday. Two whole years of us putting out podcasts and articles based on the glorious hobby of playing video games. What started out as something completely different has transformed into a living, breathing animal with a considerable following and a very lively community. Read more »

The time has come for all Dorks to stand together as one (well, those who have a PS3 anyway), to take part in this monumental celebration of the excellence that is PlayStation HOME *pfftt!*, oh nevermind all that! – above all else it a chance to dick about and have a right larf.

All details pertaining to what we have planned can be found on the relevant thread within our forum

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Unfortunately we’re still without the muckle-fingered Scotsman this episode so it’s down to Leon and Jay (who needs to pay more attention to his mic settings – the fool!) to blather on about games and things this week including their thoughts about the latest PS3 exclusive Heavy Rain and some of the other stuff and nonsense that have been going on in the wonderful world of the videogame.

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Your at-a-glance rundown of the games released on the console digital download sevices on Tuesday 2nd March & Wednesday 3rd March (Microsoft), Thursday 4th March (Sony) and Friday 5th March (Nintendo).

A fair amount of quality this week, particularly on 360, Wii & DSi.

First up we have the £20 digital release of SFIV – a wonderful game no doubt but hard to recommend when the disc can be found far cheaper and the incredible looking SSFIV is just round the corner.

There are also price drops for some of Microsoft’s On Demand (and Xbox 360) launch titles with the elderly likes of Kameo, Perfect Dark Zero & Viva Pinata all now around £15 but again, the discs can be found far cheaper if you want them.

This week’s solitary XBLA release is the first in the ‘House Party’ season and is the beautifully presented tower defence title Toy Soldiers from Signal Studios. Well worth checking out the trial at least.

Over on the Sony side it’s slim pickings this post-apocalyPS3 week as unlucky PlayStation owners witness the release of the hideous (if fundamentally playable) bastardisation of Vandal Hearts, Flames of Judgement. On PSP we just have the rather overpriced digital release of the apparently competent Dante’s Inferno port.

Nintendo-wise on Wii we have the very much fans-only-need-apply & extremely challenging NES styled Mega Man 10 along with the long-awaited European release of the third, and most well received yet, in Gaijin’s retro-core BIT.TRIP series: VOID. Masochistic retro fans are certainly well catered for on Wii this week as the final release is a VC Arcade title, SEGA’s 28 year old Zaxxon.

DSiWare is also home to another pseudo-retro reimagining in the form of the – far better by all accounts than the full price HD retail game it’s nominally related to – Dark Void Zero. Furthermore we have a pinball simulation from Metroid Prime Pinball veterans Fuse, the latest in Gameloft’s fun Real Football series of kickabouts and finally the minigame compilation of as yet unknown quality that is Globulos Party.

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Recently I’ve taken to buying official game guides. I blame Dragon Age: Origins. See, I’m absolutely anal about RPGs and making sure that I’m spending all of my statistic and attribute points in the right places. To think that I might have spent even a single point in an area that could end up redundant in lé character build du jour is enough to make me hit the delete button and start again. No matter how many hours I am into a game. Read more »

Finally! A sign of life on the podcasting front, well sort of. We recorded this as an audio apology for not being consistant with our poddy duties over the last week or so, due to somewhat unforseen technical difficulties and also in case anyone thought we’d been kidnapped by Batarian slave traders. Anyway, all being well semi-normal service will resume this week. Please don’t hate us – we didn’t mean it!

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Inspiration is a funny beast. It can strike from anywhere and turn some of the most unlikely subjects into spectacular works of art. So when Vicarious Visions took opening section of Dante’s poem ‘The Divine Comedy’ as the basis for a 3D action game that trawls through the eight circles of Hell the most pertinent question is, “Why?”, quickly followed by,  “Eh?”, before being topped off with a, “That’ll never work”. And it’s true, it does not work. However on the flip side it does not entirely fail either and during play shows that while the overarching theme may be derived from one of history’s most celebrated poets, the actual mechanics are from far more recent times. Read more »

Your at-a-glance rundown of the games released on the console digital download sevices on Tuesday 23rd February & Wednesday 24th February (Microsoft), Thursday 25th February (Sony) and Friday 26th February (Nintendo).

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