Platform:  Nintendo Wii Developer:  Nintendo In the context of contemporary Nintendo’s gaming philosophy of bringing gaming to the masses through accessibility, I don’t quite understand how this game came to be. Ostensibly a series of musical mini-games that are based around timing and ‘Simon-says’ repetition challenges, Rhythm Heaven has a charming presentation style and after the first two mini-games ‘Built ...

Platform:  Xbox 360 Developer:  Popcap Games Publisher:  Microsoft Game Studios I’d like to think that years from now, future game developers will study Peggle as an example of just how much positive re-enforcement can help a game.  Peggle‘s central conceit is very basic: aim and fire a ball at a series of coloured pegs.  As a foundation for a puzzle ...

5 second review: It takes 5 seconds to learn how to play Flight Control and it also takes this long to describe its awesomeness.

MICHAEL Jackson, 50, has suffered a heart attack and died, gossip website TMZ reports. Paramedics were unable to revive him. TMZ were told: “when paramedics arrived, Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.” Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.

I think we’re all enjoying the benefits of introducing Word Press to The FAT Website.  The site looks like a million bucks and its a lot easier to use. Something else we’ve also added to TFW is Google Analytics so we can see who visits our site and how they found us.  I’ll do a monthly blog entry going over ...

Australia is currently embroiled in a political scandal that is referred to as Utegate.  Its the biggest scandal to hit the country since Flamingmongrel-gate and ShrimpsOntheBarbie-gate. I take back all the criticism I wrote about the frivolous nature of British politics.  The last couple of weeks in Australian politics have been a spectacular waste of time and  the whole thing ...

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I first discovered Agatha Christie and specifically her Hercule Poirot novels when I was very young.  I don’t remember the exact age, but remember watching a televised screening of The ABC Murders, which Wikipedia tells me was part of the original series which aired in 1989-1990, so I would have been around eight or nine by the time it reached ...

So let’s recap the Iranian Elections:  The incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faces a serious challenge from the slightly more moderate (although thats not saying much) Hossein Mousavi.  On election day, based on exit polling, Mousavi declares victory.  Then, one hour after an election in which there was an 80% voter turnout, State Officials announced that they had counted enough votes to ...

So I signed up to Twitter this weekend.  I’m still getting my head around how it all works.  I’ll get a hang of it over time I guess.  The spam protection thing where you have to type in the word on the screen was racier than I expected. So anyway, I’m at www.twitter.com/edotherocket.  Please follow my Twitter if you need ...