Game On

The road to E3

Actually, it’s not a road – it’ll be a long plane flight from London to Los Angeles meaning it’ll be two days before I can feel my ass again.

Ahem. Not that I do it on a regular basis, but you know what I mean. Anyway, E3 should be top notch this year – I expectSony to come out with all their PS2 big guns blazing and MicroSoft doing their best to pee on the parade.

Either way it’ll be a great event and I’ll try to take as many snap shots as I can get away with!

Continue Reading
Game On

The Player Replies…

I received mail from Andrew Collins at The Player magazine this morning – nice of him to reply, most people cant face this sort of thing on their first day back in the office!

Andrew told me that as they were going to print, Sony announced that Wipeout Fusion would be delayed intil at least September, so the visit to Studio Leeds was cancelled. This left them with no feature.

This sounds like a reasonably good excuse and I understand (working for a publishing company) the predicament these things can cause.

So there you go – although guilty as charged, The Player was only a victim of circuimstance.

Thanks for clearing things up, Andrew.

Continue Reading
Game On

Don’t Buy The Player

Seriously, if you’re conned by the bright orange cover that says the contents include previews of forthcoming PS2 games, including Wipeout Fusion then you will be pissed off when you find out exactly how much there is on that game.

It was the only reason I bought the magazine and the sum total of information on ‘Fusion is a thumbnail of a screen shot that was released months ago and a caption that tells us nothing!

Crap like this leaves a taste worse than Claire Swire’s sex life – how can rags like this get away with shit like that? I’ve sent an e-mail to ask.

Continue Reading