Mat C
Mat C is currently fending off a monstrous Steam backlog with a big stick. You can say hello to Mat on the Tap-Repeatedly Twitter feed, @taprepeatedly.
Mat C is currently fending off a monstrous Steam backlog with a big stick. You can say hello to Mat on the Tap-Repeatedly Twitter feed, @taprepeatedly.
Over the course of this weekend, it’s almost seemed as though I’ve spent as much time tweaking RAGE as I have actually playing RAGE. If you’ve been following the launch of the PC version, you’ll know that it’s just that sort of game. The beauty of PC gaming however is that as much as these inconveniences can frustrate and annoy, the rewards are often so great for those who invest the time to fix their own experience. …
Followers of the official Tap Repeatedly Twitter feed (accept no imitations) may have noticed a brief spat this afternoon regarding a well known mainstream blog perhaps saying more than it should have about the upcoming Batman: Arkham City. To cut a dull story short, it seems the more established gaming press have recently been treated to an extended hands on session with The Dark Knight’s latest outing, and with embargoes clearly lifting at around 3pm …
The annual trade show circuit may be drawing to a close at this time of year, but for those of us in the UK the fun is only just beginning. The Earls Court exhibition centre in London has today opened its doors for this year’s Eurogamer Expo, the largest event of its kind on our shores and a valuable opportunity for the UK-based press and gamers to get their hands on the latest wares from …
If there’s one thing I’m quickly learning about PC gaming, it’s that the sales never stop. Ever. Something is always on sale somewhere, and often services such as Steam will throw up ridiculous sales seemingly for no apparent reason. Take today for example. Here I am with my wallet thinking what a cheap day it’s been, having spent nothing but £1.42 on a sandwich for breakfast. I’m happy, my wallet is happy and my bank …
Remember all those crazy 01Net rumours that everybody thought were absolutely mental, insane and totally bonkers last month? Well they just weren’t mental, insane or totally bonkers enough for Nintendo. Frankly, I don’t think anything is anymore. It turns out that at least one of those rumours is true. True and horrifying. Originally leaked by Japanese weekly mag Famitsu and later confirmed by Nintendo, the monstrously ridiculous “Expansion Slide Pad” adds inches upon inches of …
Ladies and gentlemen, the winter games deluge has begun. What started with Deus Ex a fortnight ago is going to last all the way through until early December, with wall to wall gaming awesomeness appearing on store shelves as far as the eye can see. Inevitably, things are going to get ugly. As a mere mortal who still has to, ya know, buy his games, I’m restricted by what’s commonly referred to as a “budget”. …
Discussing video game addiction is never a particularly easy subject to broach. At least not in my experience. Ordinarily it’s not something I particularly like to talk about at all. That could be because I’m a gaming addict in denial, or because I’m ultra defensive over my chosen hobby and quickly angered by the stupidity and banal waffle that usually follows such discussion in the mainstream media. The problem for me is that I am a gamer, …
Still on the fence over whether to buy Bethesda and Splash Damage’s team based shooter Brink? If so, there’s no better time to get your SMART on and pay a well overdue visit to The Ark. Starting right now on Steam and for three days only, it will cost you zero of the currency of your choice to see what you think of Brink’s much hyped yet critically and commercially divisive multiplayer action. Like what …
It’s no secret that the Nintendo 3DS hasn’t exactly been lighting up the cash registers since it launched back in March this year. With its main USP still seen by many as an unwanted gimmick and under increasing pressure from iOS and mobile platforms, this particular $250 dedicated handheld was always going to be a difficult sell. Even judged by already tepid expectations, the 3DS has endured a rough start to its life on the market, struggling to sell units, and with only Super Street Fighter IV and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – both ports of existing titles from various points in the last 10 years – doing the business on the software front. When Sony matched Nintendo’s launch price for the shinier, more powerful and altogether more striking PlayStation Vita, Nintendo’s reaction almost became an inevitability.
Starting from 12 August, the 3DS will now cost just $169 in the US, £130 in the UK and 160 Euros in Europe.
You! Yes, you there! With the bowler hat and the suitcase leaning against a lamp post sipping a fine cup of delicious Yorkshire tea. Have you played VVVVVV yet? No? Why not? Because you’re a bad person? Yes, that must be it. In fact right here it says you’re a terrible person. And we weren’t even testing for that. If you’ve yet to play VVVVVV despite the lure of delicious indie gaming goodness and even a …
Presumably Suda51 doesn’t. Nor does Tetsuya Mizuguchi. Or at least they don’t if June’s NPD numbers are anything to go by. As it turns out, Child of Eden seems to have tanked pretty hard. It’s currently only available on Xbox 360 with an impending PlayStation 3 release sure to give it a slight sales boost at worst, but even on a single format charting at number 83 on the back of 34,000 units shifted is …
OK, the Steam Summer Sale is starting. Lewis B doesn’t believe me, but it’s happening. How do we know? Valve have just fired the first shots. Valve Collection 82% off? Rockstar Collection 71% off? It begins. I’m delirious with excitement. This is obviously my first Steam sale as a fully fledged member of the PC community, and I can’t wait to fill my library with games I can’t possibly find the time to play for …
On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina left a trail of destruction and flood waters across New Orleans and the surrounding area, causing just short of 2,000 deaths, billions of dollars of damage and a clean up operation that continues to this day. Six years later and many parts of New Orleans remain in disrepair, standing as reminders of a tragedy which threatened to wipe an entire area of the United States off the map. One …
Bloomin ‘eck, who turned up the thermostat? Britain is currently basking in the glory of a bit of a heat wave, with temperatures reaching as high as 30 degrees in some parts of the country. We’ve had nothing but blue skies and sweaty foreheads for two full days now and according to those fine weathermen who pop up at the end of the news, with their funky ties and “just be glad it’s not pissing …
It may seem odd to some that there are still any multiplatform games that don’t play better on PC as we sit here in 2011, but this is a reality that beleaguered football fans have had to endure since the dawn of the current generation. Having provided PC gamers with a sub standard experience for years and delivering an only slightly modified PlayStation 2 engine right up until FIFA 11, it looks like EA are …