Multiplayer Demo Palooza!
Jan 222010
Jan 182010
The room-mate of a PlayStation Home user has claimed that she was sexually assaulted in the social networking application. The room-mate, ‘Whoef’ posted on the PlayStation forums that her friend was “sexually assaulted near the Festive Tree while she was helping others with the puzzle.”
“She would move and the harasser would follow,” Whoef said. “Each time trying to get behind her and use the crouch gesture. This apparently went on for some time.”
Whoef has called for a restraining order, or a ‘Home Prison’ where harassers should be put to harass amongst themselves.
Whoef said, “There is no reason Home can’t make money on future rapists. After losing all their items, like a real jail, Home can sell them orange jumpsuits, flip-flops and they can decorate their jail cells with a few items such as bunk bed, toilet and a bed roll. They might as well get use to it, that’s where they are headed if they don’t change their criminal behaviour.”
The victim was so distressed by it that she has decided to leave Sony’s App for good. Another reason for more ‘Home Police.’ Sigh.
Dec 302009
Gunstar Heroes is an example of how to correctly redo a classic. For those who don’t know, Gunstar Heroes was originally a SEGA Genesis game, released in 1993. The game consists of three different types of gameplay. On-foot shooting parts, hoverbike shooting parts, and spaceship shooting parts. Basically, you’re shooting the whole time, in three vastly different environments. The whole game can be completed solo, or with a friend locally, or online, although very few people were playing. Thankfully, you can save anywhere, and continue from that point at anytime.
The first level is a rapid killfest. You can just aim your weapon around the screen and bet you’ll kill everything. The second level gives you a taste of the hoverbike portion. You go along a set of rails, on either the top or bottom of the screen, and shoot everything. The third level has the same premise of the first, yet the action never seems to get old or repetitive. 
The fourth level presents you with a game board of sorts, where you roll a dice, and you’ll most definitely and on a mini-boss fight. After a few of mini battles, you beat the final boss for that level, and move onto the spaceship sections. The game took me around 3-4 hours to complete, and I enjoyed almost every second of it.
The game also has a unique weapon system. You’re able to carry two different types of weapons. You can pick up different weapons scattered about the levels. Each combination produces a different outcome. For example, some combinations make a very power, short-range laser, while others make long-range fireballs. If you’ve never played Gunstar Heroes before, I would give it a shot. On sale for $2.99 until Thursday, you can’t go wrong. Even at $4.99, I would recommend it for anyone who hasn’t experienced this classic game before.
Dec 292009
Blast Off may be a mini, but it packs a major punch. Released on November 24th by Halfbrick Studios, Blast Off is a game with a simple concept but with ad added twist, gravity. In the game, your objective is to maneuver your spaceship to rescue little astronauts floating around in space, and then travel to an exit. You launch your ship into space from a rotatable planet Earth. The longer you hold down X before you launch, the more thrust your launch will have. You then must retrieve a certain number of astronauts to open the exit portal. The challenge come in with the gravity factor. The larger the planet, the more gravitational pull it has. So, if you’re trying to grab two astronauts around a giant planet, chances are you’re gonna get sucked into it in the process. Thankfully, if you screw up mid-flight, you can simply hit L to reset the level, which you will find yourself doing very often in the later levels.
The game contains four difficulties, with an average of twelve levels per difficulty. Which brings me to another point, This game is HARD. You’ll most definitely be throwing your PSP against the wall in rage once you get into the Hard and Insane difficulties. Some of the levels are a cakewalk, though. 
If you’re determined, you could probably complete the game in about an hour. But, you can always go back to rescue every single astronaut in a level to get a gold medal. At $2.99, Blast Off is a bargain for the amount of content it has. Plus, it works great on the PS3. If you have a few dollars laying around in your wallet wondering what to buy, I have to say that Blast Off is a must buy.
Oct 282009
Had this happen to me on my first playthrough. Went back to see if it would happen again so i could capture it. It did.
Oct 242009
They Invadin' Yo Space
Picked this up from GAME after a Uni visit in Brighton (I’m not gay). Also picked up 4 PS2 games, find out what they are on episode 19! 
