Does anyone know where I can buy one of these for under the bog standard £34/35? Or less than £20 for that matter? Because those kind of prices really are ridiculous amounts for a controller. I only have 1 that vibrates and the other 2 that came with my PS3 are those tatty shit ones that weigh less than a £5 note, and I’d really like to buy another one and get the Gioteck Real Triggers for it so my friends don’t feel left out when we play Co-op.
These just arrived in the post:
They’re basically just 2 pieces of plastic that clip on top of the PS3’s L2 and R2 buttons to prevent your fingers from slipping. I’ve never had a problem with that, but they were £2.99 so I decided to check them out.
I must say they feel great for 2 pieces of plastic, and they don’t seem to fall off at all. Even if you mash the triggers as hard as you can, they still cling on and demand more.
You can grab yourself a pair over at Play.com.
It makes me wonder why Sony didn’t make their controllers like this in the first place, or at least keep the trigger buttons from the PS1/PS2 days:
Rebellion Developments have just released a multiplayer demo for their upcoming Aliens vs. Predator game. And I must say I’m quite impressed by it.
I’ve never played any of the previous AvP games and I haven’t seen any of the films, but I know the basic concept of it all. Not that you need to know much about the series to enjoy this game. You just jump straight in and enjoy it. You can play as either an Alien (scorpion-like creature with claws that can crawl on walls and bite people’s heads off), a Predator (tall monster with blades for hands and can turn invisible) or a Marine (guy with a gun).
The gameplay is extremely simple – players must run around a map and kill anything that moves. It sounds almost too simple but there’s nothing more satisfying that playing as a Predator, finding a Marine that’s just killed an Alien, creeping up behind him, stabbing him through the gut from behind and then ripping his head clean off. There’s a somewhat old-school feel to it all. I don’t know what it is, but it makes me feel like I’m playing Doom 3 again combined with Unreal Tournament. And that my friend, is a great combination. It’s available for pre-purchase right now via Steam.
The game will be released on February 16th in the US (I think) and Feb 19th in Europe. It’s quite cheap on Steam, so go ahead and pre-order your copy now. Hell, I might even review it when the time comes.
Just been thinking about Heavy Rain, and how goddamn difficult it’s going to be to review it. There’s so much to talk about, so many elements to it and the game demands multiple playthroughs to get the full effect. It’ll no doubt be my longest review yet and I’m dreading it. Usually before a game comes out I start writing a brief paragraph as an introduction to my review, but I haven’t written anything yet for Heavy Rain. That’s how much I’m dreading it.
Still, I can’t wait for it. It’s been 4 years and it’s finally here. Madison Paige seems like a really interesting character and I’m looking forward to playing as here.
I don’t usually enjoy discussing this subject, because it’s just so blasé and insignificant that I don’t feel the need to explain it anymore than I already have. But I’m going to do it anyway because it gives me something to do and I’ve never talked about it on this blog.
Violence in video games is fake. No matter how much impetuous savagery there is onscreen, none of it is real. If you can’t tell the difference then you shouldn’t be playing video games, and if your parents can’t stop you from playing them then they shouldn’t have had kids. End of story. Case closed. Par-dessus. Finito.
Anyway, time for a new topic. Nudity. More importantly, nudity in video games. So don’t get too excited, you sick perverted fucks.
I haven’t really seen all that much nudity in games, apart from the recent DLC pack for The Saboteur and there’s apparently a penis in The Lost and the Damned. That’s all I know. But I guess the one game that’s caused the most recent controversy is Mass Effect.
It contains “full digital nudity” in which you can have your character form a relationship with another character and then have sex. In the video link above (and here just in case you missed it, and are blind), they bring in two people to discuss the matter. The women they get, I forget her name and don’t care, is basically talking out of her arse:
> “13-year-olds haven’t seen Playboys because they’re not supposed to.”
Playboy? That magazine that came out in the ’50s? People still read those?
> “Adolescent males play games, not their dads.”
I’m pretty sure the vast majority of gamers are between the ages of 15 and 35. The average age for a gamer here in the UK is 28.
> “Violence and sexuality has a desensitizing effect.”
She makes it sound like you can be gay or bisexual in Mass Effect. I’m pretty sure you can’t do that. And any gamer will tell you that violence in games is in no way related to violence in the real world. Just because little Timmy slaps his mum in the face and calls her a “fucked up bitch” it doesn’t mean you should confiscate his copy of Grand Theft Auto IV.
> “Darling, I gotta go with the research… Boys that play video games cannot tell the difference between what they’re seeing in a video game and the real world if they don’t have a real experience.”
Patronising cow. “Boys that play video games”? What about the girls? And are we talking about boys aged 10? 15? Or just boys overall? And in today’s society, most boys have had a real experience with violence and sex at a very early age.
All that was said, and she hadn’t even played the bloody game! Neither had the anchorwoman. Utter bullshit. Some other woman later on even said “Whatever happened to Atari and Pinball and Pac-Man?” First off – talk properly, love. Second – Atari, Pinball & Pac-Man were around way before your time. How old are you? 23? Maybe 24?
I think I veered off a little bit back there 
anyway, if they think Mass Effect is bad I’m surprised they didn’t pick up on The Saboteur. And I dread to think what’ll happen once Heavy Rain is released. Some recently leaked footage showing one of the main characters fully nude in the shower might just get their attention.
Now if you excuse me, I need to go watch some British TV before my mind implodes from watching 7 minutes of FOX News.
…no I will not go to the game’s website, I’d rather gouge out my eyes with a wooden spoon, and I never said Horde mode on Casual was “too hard”. I said that the enemies refused to die easily, we still managed to beat it.
Honestly, there are some really imbecilic people out there. Don’t comment or pingback on my blog again, please.
I spent the weekend at a friend’s house, and unfortunatley they have an Xbox 360. So inevitably that meant I was subjected to Modern Warfare 2, Halo 3 and of course, Gears Of War. We played Horde mode, where you have to kill x-number of enemies before they kill you.
Now, I’ve already expressed how I feel how I feel about Gears Of War – the retarded running mechanic that pretty much puts a bag over your head so you can’t see where you’re going, beats you with a stick and kick you up the arse. Then your character suddenly seems drawn to knee-high walls because the sprint button is the same used for the cover system. You have to run around the sandbags outside a safehouse instead of past them, otherwise you’ll just pin yourself up against them and get shot in the face by enemies that refuse to die no matter how much you shoot them, forcing you to just use the chainsaw mounted to your gun.
Then there’s the reloading mechanic. Jesus H. Christ! What is up with that thing? How am I expected to mentally grasp this? – Press reload, wait til the little bar reaches the white bit and press reload again. Why can’t I just press reload once? Y’know, like in every other game? GOW tries so desperately to be different and chooses the most stupid things to do that.
One more thing, we played the Horde mode on the casual difficulty. But we seemed to die if an enemy even breathed just a little too close to us. It couldn’t be that we just sucked at it, we’ve been playing games for years and beating them on their hardest difficulties. But as I mentioned before, the enemies in GOW refuse to die easily. I dread to think what the game’s hardest difficulty is like.
Another year, another rip-off. We’ve already had a Devil May Cry rip-off, now it’s time for a God Of War rip-off.
I can safely tell you that this game is a complete copy of God Of War. Not a slight copy, but a complete copy. It is EXACTLY the same. The controls are identical, all the way down to how the buttons are mapped on the controller. You use the same ranged weapon, navigate the same menus, collect the same orbs after killing enemies with the same combos and regain your health using the same green health orbs. Hell, even the bosses and quick time events are taken straight out of GOW. And don’t even get me started on the blatantly stolen animations and the bastardization of the script.
God Of War is a much better game and you’re better off just replaying it until GOW3 comes out and not bother with Dante’s Inferno. It’s a waste of the developer’s time and your money.
How a game like this even made it to store shelves is beyond me. I let Bayonetta slide because it was made by the same director as the original Devil May Cry, whereas Dante’s Inferno is made by entirely different people to God Of War. So that’s simply unacceptable.
I guess it makes a change to all the countless Grand Theft Auto rip-offs out there, even if it is all Driver 2’s fault. But seriously, what’s the next copy of a game going to be like? Are Ubisoft going to make a new Mirror’s Edge? Perhaps Valve are planning their own version of F.E.A.R.? Who knows?
Utter shite. The themes are a neat idea, if the site where you get them from actually fucking worked!
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I’ve been a fan of this Welsh rock band for many years now, and they haven’t lost their style one bit. Every track on this album gives a fantastic mix of their old music style and their most recent styles, ranging from fast/loud/screamy, to slow/soulful/operatic to catchy/mainstream. A little bit darker than their previous work too, revealing a new side to them.
Nice to see a decent rock album after all the previous poor excuses last year.
Highly recommended for a hardcore fan or someone looking for something to rock out to.
Currently charting at #1 album on iTunes.
