Nintendo's new online service

TEN years after Xbox LIVE and six years after the PlayStation Network, Nintendo have finally come out and said they’re getting rid of the god awful friendcodes and system locked online features that have plagued the wii, DS, DSi and 3DS and replacing it with an account based system.
What is the name of new network?
Hold your breath………………………………………………………………………..ready? Sure? Okay here we go!
‘Nintendo Network’

Australia Day 2012

So we just had Australia day and what a great day it was.

Fuck I love Australia.

A new year and a new idea

So it’s a new year, 2012… the year we all die!

Regardless it has been a while since I have updated here or posted a video, well back last year I recorded with my camera a friend of mine (John-Joe) and he took a voice of something akin to a BBC documentary presenter and he just started going on about random things.

I have decided that this will make a good video to upload and maybe even a start of a new series.
I have always wanted to start a series and I have tried many times in the past (most attempts never made it to YouTube or got taken down by copyright issues).
I think the issue is that I am a horrible actor; my voice is a drag and who really wants to look at me?
Regardless John-Joe I think we can all agree is a born star and I have other clips and I will try to upload them too and see how it all goes.

A change

Some of you may of noticed that lots of my videos are gone.

The reason is that I have removed them so my youtube account is in good standing again also I am reducing the number of people that I am subing too down quite a bit.

It’s Blizzcon day again!

First up, new WoW expansion!


WoLK didn’t interest me
Cata bored me
I have NO interest in World of Warcraft at all; HOWEVER this expansion looks really good.
So Blizzard, since I have a slight emotion towards this I guess you have done a good job.

THQ shuts down 3 more studios

So last year Australia's largest game studio Krome shut down there 3 bases in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Only Brisbane remains with a small group, with them gone THQ was the largest Australian gaming company... not anymore.

Today THQ as part of there reconstruction has shut down Blue Tongue studios (famous for "De Blob") and THQ Australia (A Brisbane studio).

On top of this they also shut down THQ Digital Phoenix (was Rainbow studios).

THQ has not been going well, this year they have shut down
Kaos Studios (the studio behind homefront), THQ Digital Warrington (formerly Juice Games) and they sold off there wireless section.

My thoughts on the "Cold Stream" beta for L4D2

I think that is was overall a great hour or so spent playing.

The campaign was MUCH more hectic than previous and many may find them self’s dying once in a while (thankfully I only died once from my own stupidly), regardless I don’t think it needs to be made harder nor do I think it needs to be made easier, this really brings out the best of you, I think the level of difficulty needs to stay the same.

Level design was very well done with more interaction with the environment than normal and the path was less liner than normal (with times when you need to pick which way to go) which is a welcomed edition.