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The Next Gen Consoles

Xbox One (or XBone as its 'affectionately' become known to gamers) was released just 15 minutes ago. Playstation 4 out next week. But most gamers I know on forums are waiting until next year until they get one because there are still great games out for PS3. Oh and there are not many new titles worth the splurge, especially at £50 a pop :o Killzone is the only one I would be interested in. Watch Dogs too but thats been delayed.
Ive still got loads to finish myself: Sly Raccoon 4, Heavy Rain, Killzone 3, Hitman Absolution, Arkham Origins, Borderlands 2, Bioshock Infinite, Far Cry 3 etc, not to mention the awesome The Wolf Among Us series, so even though I will be getting a PS4 (I was offered a special exclusive deal) I can't see me playing much on it for its first few months of life.
The graphics jump this time around are not going to be as spectacular either. Gone are the days of SNES to Playstation 1 improvement, or even the PS2 to PS3 which still feels like yesterday (was only 2007 remember). Going from PS2 (still a [b]great[/b] console) to PS3 was very impressive; jaws were indeed dropped when Motorstorm first hit our screens after MGS3 or Hitman: Blood Money on PS2 (again still fantastic titles) but the PS4 and XBone don't look to be much different to what we have now. Oh the number crunchers will notice for sure but yer average player will not.

Arias Welsh Alt. (18)

POLICE LINE: DO NOT CROSS



WARNING: FRUITY F BOMBS THROUGHOUT!

Hymns and Arias is Welsh folk singer Max Boyces best known songs, sung at rugby matches up and down Wales. I thought I would 'spice' it up a little with some colourful F bombs. Just for a giggle, and see how my accent carried it off.

Web Blues

Convinced I am falling out of love with the internet. It used to be id log on eager to learn something new or thrilled at the prospect of getting involved in a forum debate, but all this is rapidly disappearing. The excitement is flakier than Dodo bones. Seems ive done it all, earned the tee shirt and now after a quick glance at online newspapers and a kickabout on social media, all I want to do is log off again. Probably long overdue.
You see Ive been online since 1999 and the days of the Sega Dreamcast. The Dream Arena was my first taste of chat rooms and message boards, it was the place I heard "LOL" for the first time. It was new, alien, a digital frontier waiting to be explored by hip young cowboys who preferred joysticks over six shooters. I couldn't wait to sign in, to escape the humdrum of real life and get sucked into a kind of virtual playground. That's how most of us saw the internet back then but fast forward almost 15 years to a place where Smartphones and Tablets are everyday devices, and 'LOL' is as commonly used as 'Thank You' and much has changed. I certainly have, and with it my attitude of the great WWW highway.
I just spend 20 minutes staring at the Yahoo screen in a miserable 'limbo', not knowing what to do next. Just sat letting the computer backlight hypnotise me into some kind of pause, a bit like being lost at sea. So tired of it all. I saw it coming a while ago when I noticed I was visiting forums less. Over the years I have made great friends on internet message boards, some really wonderful people who some I regard as part of an extended family (may sound odd to some but its true), but when even they could not inspire me to log on (it wasn't them, it was the internet) I knew there was trouble in paradise. Or trouble on Google.
And like I say, its not a people issue (although certain figures grate), its the internet itself; the endless words, the anonymous
hands hitting the keyboard, pop up adverts, everything dotcom feels flat.

Rambo Trilogy Game Trailer

Bring on the explosive bows!

Yo 1980s action movie fans, here's something to tickle yer guns! Bad ass Green Beret, John J. Rambo is coming to a current gen console near you next year (Jan 17th) thanks to British publisher Reef Entertainment. And despite all the naysayers predicting the game to be a sloppy and average affair, I personally think its going to be a blast. Admittedly im a Rambo fanboy who regularly cracks open one of the movies (even Rambo III) to accompany my Saturday night drinks, so I will be easier to please, but come on! Watch the video trailer avbove, even grumpy old Col. Trautman would think this game looks decent.

Craig Lewis, commercial director at Reef said: "We have big ambitions for Reef and the Rambo IP is the first step in establishing us as a worldwide player. Rambo will be a triple-A title on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC and will capture the gritty atmosphere and full-on action which made the Rambo movies so successful."

Let us hope so mate, I am positively drooling at the thought of being to able to play through the meatier bits of the Rambo trilogy, while guzzling a few (too many) brewskies. Hunting cops through dense forest? Raining down those explosive arrows on hapless soldiers in Vietnam? Pass the bandana and elephant sized survival knife, let's do this!

Robocop 2013

New Robocop trailer released. It actually looks as violent as the recent Dredd was, and I loved that movie. Of course time will tell if it really is any good but Keaton, Jackson and Oldman are all capable actors and shock, horror, unlike most of todays new breed of HollyBrats, I like all three. Check out the trailer below.

Id Buy That For A Dollar!!

Rest In Chopper

I must confess to having watched the movie "Chopper" over 20 times. Hey its a good movie, and everyone is interested in bad guys right? Well 99% of us are.
A few weeks before he died, Tara Brown sat down with Mark 'for his last ever interview. Here it is. Always admired him for refusing a liver transplant after he got liver cancer. He refused to agree to the procedure, stating that while a transplant would save him, he did not want one when an organ could be provided to someone else. Respect and rest in peace Chop Chop.