[tech junkie]

Plants vs. Zombies

[Rating:9/10] Everyone knows that everything is better with zombies. Plants vs. Zombies is no exception. This 28MB download from Popcap games will ensure that from now on, you won't have a minute of boredom while sitting in from of your computer. Essentially, instead of shotguns and chainsaws repelling hordes of the brain eating undead, you make clever use of your green fingers and some rather obviously genetically mutated plants to build a line of defense between them and your back d...

GTA for the iPhone

It was inevitable. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars was released earlier this week for the iPhone. The was ported from the Nintendo DS and PSP version by the Rockstar Games folk on Leeds. Although I haven't played the other two versions, the game is apparently almost identical. It is available from the iTunes store for £5.99 and carries a mature/17 rating for the swearing, sex and violence that is necessary in any GTA game. My only notable experience with GTA in the past was with GTA IV o...

Just what WoW needed: Dungeon Finder

I am by no stretch of the imagination the worlds most avvid World of Warcraft player, but I've dabbled a little and when I have nothing exciting to play on my Xbox 360 it's a great filler. A monthly subscription will also only cost you just over R100, which is great if you're a little strapped for cash and can't fork out R700 for a new 360 game. One of the only issues I had with WoW as a casual player was that I couldn't really complete any of the dungeons, or instances, as I didn't really know...

Challenge your grey matter

[Rating:8/10] There was quite a lot of noise about Machinarium when it was released and everyone started playing it. I thought I'd keep my opinion to myself until I had finished the game. The game was developed and released by a small independent Czech studio Amanita Design and was simultaneously released for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. A great feat you may think, but actually just a clever move by developing the game in Flash. So basically any OS that has a compliant Flash player is able...

Quick App for Xbox 360 Owners: 360 Live

Most of the apps I've installed that claim to deliver a great Xbox Live experience have fallen very short. This new app by Juan Xavier Larrea finally delivers the goods. I guess you need to be a bit of an Xbox Live freak to see the value in an app like this, but I've found myself in a situation before where I wanted to check on either one of my own or a friends achievements, online status or some such. If you are a big online gamer and own a Xbox, 360 Live [$1.99 - iTunes Link] is the app fo...

Bioshock 2 coming in a special edition

I'm not usually one for special editions and fancy box sets, well not recently anyway. I may have purchased the Gears of War box set and the Forza 2 one and maybe one or two others, but that's all. Promise. The Bioshock 2 special edition looks pretty awesome. Probably full of stuff that I will only ever look at once, but how can I resist something that has an LP in it ? I'll have to go and buy a USB turntable somewhere for the ultimate Bioshock fan (geek) experience. So it’s official: ther...

Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone

[Rating:7/10] After some initial hiccups with getting (and keeping) the application in the iTunes App Store, Manomio are back with C64 (iTunes link) and 8 free games. At first you may find yourself questioning your sanity, but after dropping £2.99 in the iTunes store and playing one of the old classics, you'll be pulled right back to you gaming roots. Now maybe it was just because I was stuck on a two hour flight and had nothing else to do after I had finished reading my Stuff Magazine,...

Modern Warfare 2: It’s gonna be awesome

I know there are people complaining about the lack of dedicated servers for the PC version along with other whinging about possibly killing civilians by mistake, but who cares ?!? This is going to be awesome. If you plan on playing online with your buddies over the next few months you will have to own a copy of this, because this is what all the cool kids are going to be playing.

Borderlands – conquer it with your friends

[Rating:7/10] I'm still not sure about Borderlands. I can't really fault the game. The graphics are great, it makes me laugh and it's built from the ground up for online co-op. It walks a fine line between a FPS and RPG, probably my two favorite genres, but there still just seems to be something missing. I'm probably only about 25% of the way through the game, almost all of which has been done with at least one buddy in co-op, but I haven't had that, "I must lock myself in the house and play ...