For the first time in four years, I’ve picked up a new football game: FIFA 10. I blogged at length about this previously, around the time Edge Magazine put FIFA on its cover and heralded it as the premiere video game franchise, taking the title back from Pro Evolution Soccer/Winning Eleven. I’m looking forward to playing a season of the ...

Our Kindles arrived in the mail today. Rediscovering reading has been one of the best things about this year.  It’s become a nightly habit to put on a pot of tea, hook up the iPod docking station, set to some random Sigur Ros album and read for a good hour or so before going to bed.  Being a slow reader ...

Stieg Larsson was a first time author who had worked previously as a journalist who was commited to fighting the rise of Nazism in Sweden.  He wrote a trilogy of books in his spare time, handed in his manuscripts to a publisher and then died.  The books went onto to become bestsellers and the inner sleeve of The Girl With ...

I’ve started playing through Uncharted 2 and am up to the seventh chapter so far.  A few discussion points came to mind while playing the game that I thought I’d write down in no particular order. Uncharted 2: Among Ladders There sure are a lot of ladders in this game across a range of varying environments.  The same unfolding ladder ...

An axe-wielding roadie who saves the world by melting demon's faces with his guitar playing. Thats right.

Jen and I finally had a chance to dine at Buffalo Club last night.  The venue has a bit of a reputation. Its head chef Ryan Squires was recently awarded Australia’s Best New Talent and his degustation had won a handful of local foodie awards so we were anxious to give it a try.  We had booked about a month ...

Came home today to find Jen had picked up a little something on the way home from work.  Nintendo’s latest fitness game Wii Fit Plus. Now I can stay in shape while playing Brutal Legend and Uncharted 2 all weekend. Jen <3

Came home today to find Jen had picked up a little something on the way home from work.  Tim Schafer’s new game Brutal Legend! Not ten minutes into playing the game, I was fighting a bunch of demons in a hellish pit, with an army of head banging rockers on my side and Def Leppard’s Rock of Ages blaring through ...

Hey, that stupid pedestrian bridge they’ve been building, which has been responsible for noisy construction going on outside our apartment every Saturday morning, has finally finished being built.  It looks very modern and er, spiky. Jen and I have been clearing out the back-catalogue of games recently to make way for the upcoming awesomeness that is Uncharted 2 and Brutal ...

1UP Yours/Listen Up As I write this, I’m listening to the final 1UP Yours/Listen Up podcast before host Garnett Lee leaves the UGO gaming network for Shack News.  That might not sound terribly interesting but listening to this weekly video game podcast has been a habit of mine for the past four years and the show was enourmously influential personally.  ...