Their other selling point was the new layout and features of the software. I have an Iphone and I thought about the Iphone 4, however when I updated my iphone, i was shocked to see all the features they are talking about, available to me already.

Don’t waste your time buying a phone thats overly expensive, just buy a normal Iphone and get the software updates. Better yet, get a blackberry where your battery will over exceed the Iphone 4.

Have you got an Iphone 4? If so let me know what you think of it, is it worth the extra money, or have I hit the nail right on the head with this Iphone article.

Either way, enjoy your Iphone but if you want a battery life that is usable, stay away from the iphone and use a blackberry.

Players have found themselves with a copy of red dead redemption a little earlier than expected so hours of gameplay has already taken place and Rockstar had said this game will be atleast upthere with game of the year if not winner of game of the year. To be honest, I wholey agree with them, this game is fantastic and I feel like picking it up again and again.

The story mode is more than enticing with each individual section having you scamperring through in order to reach the next. Its not exactly easy either with a number of aspects being a little different than you would imagine, especially if you have been smashing call of duty for the last year.

The question is, will Red Dead Redemption be a big of hit as call of duty was last year? I’m hoping it is, as I like playing it and I will probably be incredibly bored if I don’t have many people to play with.

What are your thoughts? Is red dead redemption any good, should we be looking at other games instead of this? Or have rockstar got it spot on.

This time round we are actually seeing characters, graphics and some gameplay. I was very impressed by it especially seeing Dom with a big beard. Also, in the gears of war 3 trailer we got a sneek peak of a new character to be using in gears of war 3. The trailer has been named ashes to ashes and just as we thought the world had ended we still have a few stories that were unfinished.

Will we finally get to battle general raam, did out flood stop the locust growth? Will we fight the queen? And will we finally get more information about Marcus’ father which has been bugging gears of war players for years now.

Did the ashes to ashes trailer get your gears of war appetite wet? It certainly did for me and I may even consider playing gears of war 2 for a little bit instead of being annoyed by the surge of players on call of duty modern warfare 2 that seems to be clogging up servers and making it difficult to get games with a <50ms ping.

Just incase you haven't seen the trailer, here it is.

Although we haven’t yet seen the end of call of duty modern warfare 2 with the new stimulus pack due to be released the end of this month, we are hearing new details all the time about the next in the call of duty series. Is it too much to have a call of duty every single year? I don’t think so, but thats a debate for a whole other article! I am seriously looking forward to getting my hands on a game that is set in the vietnam war.

The new details we have had this week, is that we may just see some hugely historical battles included in this version of call of duty, just as we did in call of duty world at war. Some of the battles may just include the SAS Assault on the iranian embassy in 1980 and we will also see a return of the infamous zombie mode. Personally a mode which i absolutely loved and played it probably more than the standard call of duty online.

Will you be looking forward to call of duty 7 vietnam? If so leave us a few reasons below, even if its as simple as your finding modern warfare 2 a little stale at the moment and don’t want to pay 1200 microsoft points.

Does it sound like this question is too early for people to answer? If so then you may just be thinking about it in the wrong way. The reason I’m asking is to basically figure out if people prefer the modern warfare series of call of duty, or the old fashioned versions. Personally I have always liked games that are a little older in scene if possible, some real actions actually happening.

It was for that reason, I prefered call of duty world at war over modern warfare. I just feel that sometimes the modern warfare series, tries too hard to be good, and although they are good games, some classic weapons, real trenches and other aspects just make it feel more like a war game. I know there are millions of modern warfare 2 fans out there who will be thinking what am I talking about, however there will also be more than a few that will understand exactly what I mean.

Do you prefer modern warfare 2? Or will you feel that the call of duty vietnam game, may be more down your street? Let me know your thoughts either way.

Back to basics basically means that the sonic games will be moving back to 2d ish views on the game. Although I say 2d is, it will still come up with some really nice 3d shots of a side on view. The screen shot and video, should it be real, actually looks really good and interesting.

I mean looking at this, what do you think? Will the guys have a tough task to sell copies of this game, or has sonic been brought back to the early 90s to mount a huge challegene against the other games? My opinion is that its cracked, and back for good, sonic games may just be as popular as they always were. Let me know your thoughts, you can even discuss what you feel is your favourite sonic game out of all the games that have been made. Maybe you even like one of the sonic 3d games, if you do, i’ll be interested to hear from you.

In essence they are probably right, but with modern warfare and call of duty now produced as seperate games, there is probably a lagging in the factory that believe it has been too long since call of duty world at war. What are your thoughts on this? Do you yearn for another edition of call of duty, or should they be waiting for people to become bored or tired of call of duty modern warfare 2?

Modern Warfare 2 Glitches

Personally I feel that call of duty modern warfare 2 has seen its days as people online are also admiting to moving to other games such as bioshock 2, so that they dont have to play games that are riddled with glitch after glitch, and every patch reveals a new one.

Let me know your thoughts, do you require a little extra time to play? Or are you ready for a new installment.

If this sonic game really does bring back some hard core memories, then you probably know that since sonic 2 or maybe 3, you’ve not really had anything to wet your appetite for a really long time. Most sonic games since then, have failed misserably when compared to the early ones however one or two may have done ok in their market. The game that probably done the best was sonic and the olympics on the nintendo wii.

With sonic going back to basics with the latest games atleast sega have finally realised that they need to bring back the older generation interest in order to get the younger generation wanting to buy their games.

Back to what I was talking about, sonic & sega all star racing, is this really a good idea? Well I think so, lets face it, if we have sonic along side a whole host of other stars, then kids will associate these fantastic modern gaming stars with sonic, keeping them intriugued for the release of sonic 4.

Sonic racing is a fantastically fun game to be played with the family but I feel its probably better played on the wii instead of one of the next gen consoles.

Well there are a number of websites that I used in order to play free online games and it all depends on what mood I’m in and what sort of game I want to play. Do I want to play a sports online flash game, or a shoot em up free online game?

Sometimes I actually don’t know what kind of free online game I want so I’m basically stabbing in the dark as to what to pay. When I’m like that I have a website that usually takes care of it all, freeonlinegames.com has a good range of free online games to keep you occupied when boredom sets in. Don’t let yourself be bored, there are places out there that let you play free online games without having to worry about registering, or paying a “donation” in order to have free access to all the games.

Don’t forget, if your bored, play free online games where ever you can find them, we even have one to keep you entertained here, if you use the search function for street fighter, then you should be able to play street fighter 2 turbo free.

Only…well, it’s virtually impossible to resist the lure of a return visit to Rapture. As rusting leaky crumbling undersea dystopias go, Rapture has it all and I convinced myself at the start of my play through that I wouldn’t let my disappointment get the better of me. If nothing else, I’d enjoy being a virtual tourist in Andrew Ryan’s twisted undersea kingdom once again.

With no pomp or ceremony you find yourself once again emerging into a barnacle-encrusted world of decay and human debasement, only this time rather than being a fleet-of-foot mystery man, you’re cast as a lumbering Big Daddy. Clad in your armoured diving suit with all the grace and flexibility of an arthritic hippo, you may feel a little encumbered at the start of the game and extremely frustrated that just about everything left in Rapture can kill you with inherent ease.

Thankfully those of you who played through the first game will know that Bioshock doesn’t leave you defenceless for long, and Bioshock 2 doesn’t either. Soon you will gain your first plasmid powers (with various items common with the first game, plus a few new ones to keep you on your toes). Your main armament at first is the Big Daddy arm-drill, but eventually you’ll find other weapons dotted around the rotting corridors and access tubes of Rapture, and again like the first game these weapons can all be upgraded turning you from Splicer-fodder into a hefty killing machine.

I’m purposely avoiding giving too much away plot wise, because I know how annoyed I’d be if I read a review that spoiled plot and gameplay elements too much. Suffice to say that Bioshock 2 is very much more a shoot-em-up fan’s game, eschewing the intelligent character interaction and puzzle solving of the first game and focussing more on fighting your way out of trouble. On the “normal” difficulty level, I found the game unjustly punishing and seemed to spend way too much of my time staring at the glass doors of a revival booth.

Ammo seems to be scarcer than the first game, though you can spend a lot of time searching nooks and crannies, and various containers as well as dead bodies for useful items.

New characters and locations abound in the previously unexplored sections of Rapture and it’s these that make the game worth playing, even though you’ll probably play the entire game just waiting for that inevitable twist in the tale (again I’ll emphasize, no spoilers here, go and play it and you’ll know what I’m talking about). Your character seems easy to empathize with and like the hero of the first game, a character that’s been used and abused by nefarious villains in positions of power amongst Rapture’s higher echelons. But expect the unexpected. I will say no more than that.

Reiterating the point that Bioshock 2 is more for first person shooter fans than RPG fanatics, there’s a tacked-on multiplayer mode to compliment the single player stuff. I say “tacked on” because despite having some superb alternatives to the usual standard multiplayer “capture the flag” or “team deathmatch” fare, there are several custom modes that bond firmly with the game’s core elements. Adam hunt is one such mode, tasking players with gathering more Adam than their competitors. Of course it goes without saying that plasmid powers feature heavily in multiplayer too, and at times the gameplay is fast and frenetic. But it still feels like an entire game mode that wasn’t really necessary, and was just thrown into the mix to keep FPS fans sweet.

All told, Bioshock 2 suffers from having extremely large shoes to fill (and you don’t get larger shoes than those lead-lined clompers the Big Daddies wear). So much is carried over from the first game without much enhancement or change, and though that’s not necessarily a bad thing it feels a lot like the minimum effort was put in. That said, technically there are some superb spot effects and some impressive set pieces, particularly when your character gets trapped in a rapidly flooding chamber. The way the scene swiftly changes to a submerged particle-filled room full of floating debris is indeed extremely impressive.

Inventory and plasmid handling is much the same as in Bioshock 1, as are the weapons and upgrades and of course the moral choice of helping or harvesting Little Sisters, though this time you can escort the little darlings around to gain even more Adam for your own means.

The tedious pipe-puzzle hacking elements have been replaced with an equally tedious swinging needle “game” (which incidentally could end up being nigh on impossible if you’re colourblind). Other than that, there are minor changes to some of the HUD graphics and a tighter look and feel to the game engine. Rather nicely, you also have the option on consoles to lock the framerates (sacrificing a little visual clarity here and there).

The star of the game though is undoubtedly the setting, and though I’ve enjoyed Bioshock 2 a lot less than the first game I am pretty sure that if 2K have got a third game in mind, I’ll be unable to resist the temptation to go back to Rapture once more.

What I’m more interested in however, is the game that EA Sports will release shortly, Fifa 2010 World Cup South Africa. Are you looking forward to the release of the world cup game? I’m not sure what we can expect, will the game be very similar to fifa? Or do we expect something very different like EA normally do? Personally, I want a brand new game although previously I did hope for more of a Fifa 2010 World Cup expansion pack for Fifa 10.

Why do I want a brand new game? Well lets be honest, although EA have done everything better than usual for Fifa 10, there are still a number of things about the game that are in need of improvement. For one, defensive movement of players, although increased, I would like to see a situation where I change man and he doesnt continue to run for a second before I drag him elsewhere to follow another player.

What do you guys wish for when it comes to Fifa 2010 world cup South Africa, and who will you be supporting when the matches finally kick off? Let me know your thoughts below and enjoy the South Africa 2010 World Cup guys.

For a short period of time it was cool to play Sonic and the chubby, overall-wearing Italian plumber was nearly forgotten by some as Sega was arguably winning that generation’s console war. The company’s aggressive strategies, deemed madness by some within the company, amounted to achieving a 55% market share against Nintendo which had been considered impossible.

The fall of Sonic was largely due to the rise of 3D gaming. Unlike Mario, most of Sonic’s allure was in the speed of the experience and it did not translate well into 3D. The new Sonic games were poorly thought out as the gameplay was weak at best. It became apparent that Sonic was reliant on what I like to call the “cold beer effect” where once the 2D structure was abandoned it, it was clear that the games were hollow and could not succeed without it much like the way Coors Light in unbearable without the mind-numbing cold wave shocking your palate and brain.

Repeated attempts to modernize and stay competitive with games like Mario 64 left Sonic loyalists disenchanted to a point that they would condemn their beloved rodent unlike any other protagonist in gaming. “Improvements” such as adding characters, which worked in the past, were seen as cheap tricks and the Sonic series became known as a product for suckers and petitions against the company could be found.

A return to the 2D tradition finally came about with Sega bowing to the Nintendo DS with Sonic Rush and a sign of hope could be felt. Overall, the game was received well by critics and scored an 82% on Metacritic.

Most recently, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 was announced for summer 2010 for multiple platforms and so far it appears that the children of the ‘90s will be pleased. The side-scrolling environment and the feeling of speed seem to be replicated well as these are paramount for a good Sonic game. In the trailer Sonic is running through a corkscrew loop while off in the background rest buildings in the game’s familiar art style.

While I do feel the angst that sadly now comes along with being a Sonic fan, I find it hard to believe that this game can be screwed up – even if it is Sonic Team making it. While many are already panning this game’s release, perhaps we should give the series one more chance to redeem itself and I believe it will. The odd thing about Sonic 4 is that the bar is set so low that it is a win win situation for Sega. If it does well with critics then the developers will be cited as being in tune with the fans and if it doesn’t do well with critics the amount of old fans will likely still make it profitable and will ask, “What did you expect from a 2D game?” However it turns out, I hope there will be a nod to Michael Jackson in the game and if you have not heard about his supposed work on Sonic 3 then I suggest researching it.

The return to the 2D environment demonstrates a change in the company’s strategy, for the better, and shows that they understand what Sonic is. Sonic is a great character that does well in what he was originally made to do but he is also a character that has difficulty adapting to 3D space so until a better way of doing it is found, the side-scrolling method is best as it will bring old fans back to the brand and will attract new players looking for something different.