I am going to start this by using my genitals as an analogy for the DS touchscreen and the Wiimote, something that has surely been done a million and one times for a million and one reasons (and probably once or twice for real), but it is t...

So it's been a while since I last posted or even really visited the site. I'll site laziness, booze and a total lack of motivation for the absence. That said, I've a few amusing little pics to show for my time away. Don't get drunk around ...

I've had a bunch of thoughts go through my head and, as is often the case, they need to be vented so they can leave me and inhabit some other poor soul. So here are some ideas for games that must never be made. Oz: The MMORPG You've just...

I have lived in Brisbane my entire life and have basically thought of it as being distant from anywhere or anything of much importance. This wasn't something I disliked, the womblike quality of the city has allowed me to toddle through life...

Bear with me here. This all started a few nights back while I was at work. It was getting late, I was tired, nothing much was happening and, as is usual under these circumstances, my mind began to wander. A co-worker (Ken-yes THE Ken) was ...

I live in a city called Brisbane, the capital of the sun-raped state of Queensland. It is small and womblike in that you can get by here, quite comfortably, with the bare minimum of effort. Three guys on welfare can carve out a pretty swe...

IHUIA is an acronym for I Hate Using Internet Acronyms put there purely for the sake of saving an unloved joke from the gas chamber. That's where bad jokes go, like all the unloved puppies of the world. At any rate, I've bought and played ...

I used to post here quite regularly. Be it insightful observations of the gaming world and the people who populate it, theory based analysis of gaming as a media or pointless drunken rants, it was all done (DAN HIBIKI) with a love of ...

I'll start this off by saying that I know little of the nuts and bolts of screens and definitions etc. When my more tech savvy friends start with their hd-1080p-whatever-the-fuck talk I tend to space out and think about butterflies and how ...

I am a man of many minds. Not to the level of Fight Club, or even any diagnosable multiple personality disorder, more like a captain (me) in charge of a bunch of other people (ensigns mostly). They do what I tells them to do, most of the ti...

Having just read Jims post, and visiting Jack's sparse profile page (c'mon Jack, spice it up with some headers or avatars, a snappy Anne Coulter one perhaps) my mind leaped for joy at the idea that he was actually here reading this site. M...

If my hero Jack Thompson has taught me anything, and repeated readings of his masterpiece garbed only in sanctified gamer blood has taught me all kinds of things, it's that it's okay to engage in certain acts as a means to an end. See...

Games are art. I have said and argued this a million and one times here and elsewhere. The line between good and bad art, though, is purely personal. It's just what you like, what strikes you, what appeals to you. I hate clowns crying and e...

Firstly, sorry Chad, but immitation IS the sincerist form of flattery. Sure, I could have suggested that you do a Memory Card on this topic but, A: you may have not had this memory and, B: suggesting you do this as a request on my behalf wo...

I have friends, real no foolin', friends. Trouble is in that fuck all of them game. I have one who is obsessed with Pirates of the Burning Sea, and by obsessed I mean crazy fuck bent on playing it. That's it though, no more gaming beyond ...

What is hardcore? That is a question that has been bugging me for ages now. So I began to deconstruct it, let's take hardcore apart... The literal beginning of it is in the name, (doi) and is part of the expansion of masculine dominant cul...

I bought a Dreamcast at midnight. Yup, stood there outside my EB, eagerly awaiting my CD goodness after the N64. I bought is for the great games, particularly, the twodee fighters. So I bought an arcade stick to better nail the combo bet...

As a youngling there was an arcade nearabouts that had these things called "lock-ins", which were wonderous times where an arcade would make you pay 20 Earth money to get in and then switch everything to free play. It was fucking sweet, I...

If my hero Jack Thompson has taught me anything, and repeated readings of his masterpiece garbed only in sanctified gamer blood has taught me all kinds of things, it's that it's okay to engage in certain acts as a means to an end. See, ...

I write this as a cblog and not as a comment on the article itself as it grew a tad too long, that and I've not posted anything for a while and this stuff is right up my alley. Firstly, Jonathan is right about the schema we are programmed ...

I can remember that, when this game first came out, the reviewer at IGN said that if video games didn't have an arthouse category before, they did now. I don't write this to belittle the opinions of people who don't like the game, and i...

This is off topic, as in it has little to do with games, but it is worthwhile and I feel that it can sit comfortably amongst the philosophical ramblings that this grand site tends to host. As I wander about my fair city I am reminded, agai...

A little while back I wrote a somewhat bitter piece about the state of gaming journalism, which was written after drinking following a research session into media theory. So I have wanted to see a little venom for quite some time, which ge...

God-fucking-dammit, I was happy there for a moment, I'd just written a loving appreciative note to Mario Galaxy and now this, and now I'm pissed. This is fucking unacceptable. It belittles gaming journalism and that belittles games as a me...

I must admit that I was pretty much burned out on Mario in the weeks leading up to the release. I was actually at a point where I was saying "meh" about it, preferring to focus my anticipation on Samus as opposed to the plumber. It is test...