Modern WarfareI've been playing the Battlefield series since Battlefield 1942. BF:1942 was the game that really got me into multiplayer gaming. Unlike the Quakes and Unreal Tourneys, you could actually get to the top of the score table without firing a shot … Continue Reading ››
Busy. Do not disturb!After Bat-week , a long weekend here in New Zealand , a little bit of intellectual property drama and me being too busy in Arkham City to write anything, State of Play returns to normal. Well sort of, as … Continue Reading ››
Credit where credit's due.Due to an administration error, my writing credits got removed from the articles that I wrote on the Game Culture NZ website and accidentally credited to another author.As I did the writing for free, having the author credit is … Continue Reading ››
Nathan Drake: hero...or mass murderer?Sony go all Joseph Campbell on our ass with a new Uncharted 3 related video that asks "what is a Hero".As a tie-in to the upcoming Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception a host of hollywood types including Sam Rockwell, … Continue Reading ››
Batman returns!DC Comics' Batman: Arkham City was originally presented as a 5-issue mini-series serving as a prequel to Rocksteady Studios' follow up to their 2009's video game Batman: Arkham Asylum. The comic-book series has now been collected into a single volume … Continue Reading ››
It's Miller time!Frank Miller’s Holy Terror started out as a Batman story inspired by the events of 9/11. Miller has gone on record as saying that it is a propaganda piece and that it's likely to offend just about everybody. It … Continue Reading ››
Frank Miller: Batman legend!I’ve just finished reading Frank Miller’s Holy Terror graphic novel, as much as I love Frank Miller’s work, I’m in two minds about it. So much so that I’m going to have to read it again, so … Continue Reading ››
It's Batman!This week is Batman week on State of Play, celebrating the release of the Batman: Arkham City video-game in New Zealand on Friday.I've just looked at the last issue of the 5-part Batman: Arkham City prequel comic-book as well as the … Continue Reading ››
