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I, for one, welcome our robotic communist jobless future

Comment Everything will be so cheap, you won't NEED a job
Tim Worstall, 19 Sep 05:00

How do you choose your vendors?

Sysadmin blog Trevor Pott has a little list. What has he missed?
Trevor Pott, 17 Sep 08:29

Massively leaked iFail 5S POUNDS pundits, EXCITES chavs

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Frantic ‘experts’ backtrack as new iPhone unexpectedly sucks
Alistair Dabbs, 13 Sep 09:43

Everybody Loves Rayman: Legends dethrones Mario

Game Theory Plus: Diablo III’s console conversion, and Lost Planet 3 goes icy, slicey
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Mike Plant, 12 Sep 08:02

Smartwatch craze is all just ONE OFF THE WRIST

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Digital watches were crap in the 70s so don’t expect any better now
Alistair Dabbs, 06 Sep 10:39

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Mike Plant

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Mike Plant grew up on a diet of Final Fantasy, Monkey Island, TIE Fighter and Super Mario Bros. He now takes advantage of this idle youth by dividing his time between his The Console column for newspaper The Independent and editing his own blog GamesCatalyst.com. His quest to dispel the myth held by mainstream media, that games are the work devil, continues…
Grad Theft Auto 5

Grand Theft Auto V: Violent, sweary and amazingly ambitious

It’s rare that I walk out in the mean streets of London and experience carpet-bombing marketing for a videogame, but that’s exactly what happened this week. Something called Grand Theft Auto V is now available to purchase apparently, so I thought I might start with that. Elsewhere the rather great Zelda adventure, The Wind Waker …
Mike Plant, 23 Sep 2013
Rayman Legends

Everybody Loves Rayman: Legends dethrones Mario

Heading this week’s games was meant to be Total War: Rome II, but a PC malfunction means I’m having to postpone marching off up the Appian Way until next time. No matter, however, as a feast of games still awaits – including the year’s best platformer... Rayman Legends Wii U owners are a hardy bunch, capable of taking abuse on …
Mike Plant, 12 Sep 2013
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist... Spy HARDER

With the excitement of Gamescom still ongoing, it’s easy to forget that the weekly release of videogames continues unabated. Thankfully the idle hours of the impending Bank Holiday offer a firm reminder - especially given the extended weekend marks the release of one of the year’s best action games: Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: …
Mike Plant, 23 Aug 2013
Killzone: Mercenary

Shadowrun Returns and Killzone: Mercenary ... old titles, new takes

As the traditional quiet of August sets in, it’s over to a selection of download-only titles to provide the fix that gamers need. Step forward Microsoft’s latest Summer of Arcade collection – led by the excellent Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons – and Harebrained Schemes’ take on Shadowrun, both proving that there’s still reason to …
Mike Plant, 13 Aug 2013
Pikmin 3

Pikmin to the rescue: Can Nintendo revamp revive Wii U fortunes?

With the heatwave apparently set to give way to stormy weather, it might be about time to batten down the hatches and get comfy with a new game. This week we’re off for a walk in the forest with Pikmin 3, tracking down a master thief in The Raven and getting overwhelmed by choice in Valve’s Dota 2. Pikmin 3 The Wii U’s version …
Mike Plant, 24 Jul 2013

The Yawhg vs XCOM: Enemy Unknown. How small devs can win against the big boys

As far as the recipe for a successful new gaming genre would go, the combination of an essentially text-based role-playing adventure with a beery party game would seem very wide of the mark. Crunching stats and hardcore partying hardly seem to go together. Colour me wrong, however, for in Emily Carroll and Damian Sommer’s PC- …
Mike Plant, 11 Jul 2013