Nintendo and The Art of Flogging Consoles
Flogging consoles – it’s what Nintendo does best these days. They used to make truly great games – now they make great ads, they devise fantastic marketing campaigns.
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BBC’s Barking Mad Olympics Coverage
Bundled in alongside Bradley Wiggins and Nicola Adams you find some more toxic elements: support for the royal family, backing for the military and acceptance of England’s role as the dominant British nation.
Continue readingE3 2012: Gaming Has Left The Building
One-by-one they took to the stage to hammer home a simple but powerful message – mainstream gaming is dead.
Continue readingDavid Bowie: The Wizard of Odd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G4jnaznUoQ
The weird kids had found a friend; a goofy buddy from outer-space. He told them it was okay to be pretentious, po-faced and slightly aloof. It was alright to dabble with make-up, prance around with mime and pretend to be on drugs.
Continue readingJong’s Not Mad
When you examine these ‘facts’, you find they are rumours, exaggerations and myths. It’s the equivalent of the North Koreans reporting that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, eats dogs and is a crack addict.
Continue readingTop 10 Sneakiest Holiday Scams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2nPzolvsjw&feature=related
Holidays are about survival. A good holiday is one where you manage to make it back home without having been mugged, conned or murdered.
Continue readingCharlie Veitch: An Alternative Guide to Redundancy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuYSVCW9ILs
Charlie Veitch didn’t see his redundancy as a bad thing. He saw it as a release from a lifestyle and a world that he didn’t much like.
Continue readingReview: PES 2012
There’s no point denying it – I’m a bigot. I love Pro Evolution Soccer and I hate FIFA – always have done, always will do. And it’s time we stopped pussyfooting around this issue. Let’s get it all out in the open and deal with it like adults.
Continue readingReview: World Cup Rugby 2011
So I approach this review from the perspective of a North Walian football bigot who has hated rugby from an early age. And that said; I quite enjoyed World Cup Rugby 2011.
Continue readingInterview: Miles Jacobson
I was working in the music industry to start with. I was what you might call a tasteless A&R wanker. I used to sign bands for a company called Food Records. I began as a scout and then did A&R for them before moving to Polygram.
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