gaggle64

I am now at a point where you posting constitutes a sexual event. Don't be long!

I rather imagine it involved a phone call between DICE and EA that featured the questions "Another Battlefield game?" and "you want it finished by when?"

This tribute came out today in light of their final closure. Let us now soldier onwards to a dark and desolate future with no prospect of a Geometry Wars 3.

Breezed my driving theory test instance, now to continue grinding my Vehicle Pilot attribute for the big Practical boss encounter.

I consider myself an adult. Not a very independent one I'll admit (yet) but have counted myself among the adult population since the age of 17 when I decided "good" and "evil" were just simplistic descriptors for a world we have the power to improve ourselves, and subsequently finally abandoned the last shreds I still held of religion, god and the existence of an afterlife. Really though, "adulthood" is a vague and indistinct phrase that we all apply your own meaning and criteria to. It's not worth worrying too much about. Interesting thread though!

Bizarre Creations, they of Project Gotham Racing, Blur and Geometry Wars will close their doors for the last time this week on Friday 18th having been formally disbanded by Activision after failing to find a buyer. Despite a long and prestigious history in top notch racing games as well as dabbling in other genres recent struggles amidst middling sales figures have finally forced closure for good. They apparently leave with no ill feeling between them and Activision. Really, it's a damn shame. They were a great unit that produced some fantastic games over the years and I wish them all the best. Just shows what a tough gig it is. http://kotaku.com/#!5760272/rest-in-peace-bizarre-creations RIP

Mirror's Edge was a good game with a great concept that actually did work and was hampered by rushed development and design decisions. The actual mechanics of it were brilliant. If there was ever a game that demanded a sequel this was it. It was and still is a shining light in a video game mainstream that was and still is obsessed almost entirely with destruction and warfare.

I haven't played a Pokemon game since Silver, though I enjoyed it. If the series had managed to be even fractionally as inventive or good looking as this, I'd have every game in the series in my pockets right this second.

Followed and followed good sir.

I have no fewer then two Tumblr blogs now - Poem for the Day, which is what it says it is (all mine!) and Unsorted Mess, which the blog I use for any and all random crap I sees that I likes or need to get out of my system. I like blogging, it's interesting seeing what your blog looks like once you throw it up, even if few other people read it. It's like looking at a mirror inside your head. Plus it's a good way of building an archive of the things you like/think/need to say. Plus you never know, someone else might like what you say.

Jolly good, I'll put a big kettle on!

No. No it didn't. I gave it a shot because I heard it had tried to improve, but it was awful. I can't believe they actually paid someone for it.

Gears of War & Killzone 2. I've tried to like both of these, I really have. They're really well made games. But they're just so grey and brown and more grey and dull characters grrrring and gurning at each other with barely one dimension to split between them. Both are so un-ironic on their drive for some backward half-assed vision of male masculinity I want to weep. I know they're just supposed to be a piece of entertainment but there's just nothing even vaguely challenging, interesting or inspiring here. It's like they found a lowest common denominator and decided to go below that.

Co-op are doing these amazing valentines day cupcakes that are like iced sex, so I'll be burying my sorrows with those instead of having any actual iced sex.

Happy Birthday Rez! For the love of god please just stop.

Do you hate fast things? Do you prefer to sit back with a brewski and have it all slowed down for you? No? Well, shut your yapper and watch these anyway. They're awesome. Slow-mo HD cutness!

It's more like swapping out the soup chef for a chef with 5 Michelin stars. This can only go so wrong. It'll probably be oh-so right.

Interesting thinking about it I must say. 1. Ada Lovelace (Mathematician, Deceased) 2. Richard Nixon (US President, Deceased) 3. Erika Moen (Comic Artist) 4. Lisa Simpson (Fictional, The Simpsons) 5. Clint Mansell (Modern Composer) 6. Clint Eastwood (Actor/Director) 7. Aaron Copland (Classical Composer, Deceased) 8. Benjamin Zephaniah (Poet) 9. Elisabeth Leonskaja (Violinist) 10. Caterina Sforza (Italian Noblewoman, Deceased) 11. Elizabeth I (Queen of England, Deceased) 12. Roger Sterling (Fictional, Mad Men)

But... but... who would do such a thing? =(

Some amazing sounding (literally) news - Mass Effect 3's soundtrack will be scored by Clint Mansell - the composer of many film soundtracks including Black Swan, The Fountain and the brilliant, brilliant, brilliant soundtrack to Moon. Audio Previous ME composer Jack Wall has confirmed it, saying it's time for him to move on to new projects. I very much enjoyed the soundtrack of the previous two titles, but this is a match made in heaven. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-10-Clint-Mansell-making-Mass-Effect-3-music

If it can be nipping at the heels of the midfield that'll be a pretty good step forward for this year.

Does mental scarring count? Cos' I got plenty of that.