Games

Star Trek is a very influential show, and so I'll be looking at a few other TV show episodes, movies and games inspired by Star Trek as part…

[*Prince of Persia*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_(2008_video_game\)) is the seventh 7th game in the main [*Prince of Persia*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia) series, and the 12th game overall. Spoilers in this review, so you'll have to…

I just finished playing through all of [*Half Life 2*](http://orange.half-life2.com/) (at least, all of what's been released so far) for [Rebel FM's Game Club](https://www.eat-sleep-game.com/news/category/game-club/). Yes, a little late…

[World in Conflict](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_in_conflict) for PC is a real time strategy game with a new twist on the genre. Rather than emphasise the base building and resource harvesting that…

Yes, I'm aware it's 2009 now. But I still need to cover the games that I played in 2007, before I can move on to the 2008 edition.…

[Mirror's Edge](http://www.1up.com/do/gameOverview?cId=3160956), by DICE, published by Electronic Arts. I don't play a lot of games all the way to the finish. The current pile of unfinished games includes…

Just last week [Electronic Arts offered $US 2 billion to purchase another publisher, Take-Two](http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/news/131375.20080225.EA-offers-2-Billion-to-buy-Take-Two/). This is part of a continuing trend in the computer video game business, with…

I was struck by a [really interesting post](http://playthisthing.com/game-criticism-why-we-need-it-and-why-reviews-arent-it) by [Greg Costiykan](http://playthisthing.com/) on the difference between reviews and criticism, and the absence of real criticism of computer games at…

In the rest of this entry are the pictures from when I got my shiny new [Wii](http://wii.nintendo.com) back in December. I didn't post the pictures at the time…

Yes, I was one of the sad multitudes who stayed up past midnight to buy the new Nintendo Wii. I regret nothing! Haven't had much of a chance…