Gaming

#6: 8-Bitty Hello dear reader. For those new to this column, the Titular Idiot is me, and the Adventures are whatever I’ve been up to this week. This week’s been an unusually bitty one, so the column is too I’m afraid. But hopefully it won’t be dreadful. Let’s see… First up, a shameless plug, as one of the things I’ve been preparing for this week is the next live performance of mine and “Fleshy Tech God” Rob Sedgebeer’s live videogaming/comedy...

Ever wondered how close a group of people can get to an actual public circle-jerk without getting their actual penises out (and I do mean penises)? Well then look no further than a videogames convention! So, as someone who has been to many of these, it’s important to teach the next generation how to navigate these highlights of the gaming calendar. Day 1. The exhibition won’t technically start for a couple days but now that none of the publishers give...

#5 - What Am I Going On About?! As regular readers of this column will know, this week I’ve been all-consumed by E3 – the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Sadly for me, I’ve not been sent to Los Angeles, where all the action is. Instead, I’ve been in an incredibly well-heated TV studio in Shepherd’s Bush (read: “pit-stains”) where I’ve been anchoring the live coverage for video-gaming telly-box channel Ginx TV. On Monday, our show ran for 9 whole hours, thankfully...

#4 - MerrEEE Christmas If you’re not that into games, you might be oblivious to the fact that next week is Nerd Christmas. E3, or the Electronic Entertainment Expo to give it its full title, sees all the big-hitters in videogames converge on LA to give the world the first glimpses of the latest things they’ve created, in order to empty my bank account. Again. The first E3 was 20 years ago now, coming into being as a response to the...

This originally appeared on playthroughline.com Written by Ed Smith, the following script is a re-write of 1998's Metal Gear Solid and it's fucking hilarious and weird, and Joannes from playthroughline.com very kindly gave me permission to post it here for you all. Also a big thanks to Ed Smith for writing it or yapping it out-loud to his man-servant. I don't know his process but it works. Hope you all enjoy it. (Ed.) EXT. WET DOCK – SHADOW MOSES ISLAND...

#3 Festival of the Spoken Nerd  Last Sunday, I was down in Brighton with Rob Sedgebeer (All Hail King Rob) to preview our new live video-gaming/comedy game-show “thing”, WiFi Wars. We were the second half of a double bill at The Old Market (brilliant theatre, go there) and the gang that made up the other half were Helen Arney, Steve Mould and Matt Parker – better known as Festival of the Spoken Nerd. They’ve been doing shows together since 2011,...

Misogyny; not just the title of the prettiest lady in Ogyny, but the most used word in gaming this week thanks to the bastion of equal rights that is football. Specifically (and quite rightly), EA are going to include the top women's national teams in the next FIFA game (not for the first time though, you've been able to play as a woman in  the career mode of their NHL franchise since 2012) which neatly cued up two competitions. One contest,...

#2. Splatoon! Hi guys. It’s me again. “No idea who you are, mate”, you quite rightly retort. Regardless, hello. This week I’ve been playing a lot of Splatoon, to write a review and some features about it (top ten levels, guide to multiplayer, stuff like that…) for Ginx TV. If this article goes online in-time, you can catch me chatting about the game on Ginx Live at 6pm tonight. (Virgin Media Channel 286, and www.twitch.tv/ginxtv) If you missed that, either because you didn’t read this until after...

#1. Oh, hello, I didn’t see you there… Greetings, dear reader. My name is Steve McNeil and I’m lucky enough to have been asked to write things about the gaming industry for the marvellous London Economic. Each Friday, I’ll be beaming my brain-thoughts into your eyeholes via the internet, based on whatever I’ve been up to that week. As this is the first article, I’ll begin with a bit of background biography guff so you can quickly judge me and...