ChimpWare Podcast 2

Due to the relatively huge succsess of the last podcast, the ChimpWare Podcast returns with another fourty minutes of wonderful banter! Presented to you by Simon Wang, Matthew Ward, Miles Coverdale and Sam Street.

Sam and Max Webcomic

For those in the know, the Sam and Max franchise has been ressurected by Telltale Games. Meanwhile, I would like to point everyone to their site and also their superb webcomic here.

Enjoy!

NB. To all contributors, you are allowed to linkdump and make brief posts but I won’t link the stuff to the right hand menu bar.

Second Opinion: Mario Kart DS

Another year, another Mario Kart. It’s 2005 and the long awaited Mario Kart DS is finally released onto the shelves of video game stores nation-wide, the title originally preped for release in May of this year. This is for those that don’t follow the series, the 5th Mario Kart to be released since it’s ancestor: ‘Super Mario Kart’ on the good old SNES, these games are reborn fairly sparsely when compared to other Mario games, namely the Mario party series which seems to have a new incarnation with the changing of the guard.
Mario Kart DS is the first of it’s kind to be released on the DS and is somewhat of a saving grace for the fledling console; with many great titles appearing on the DS, none of them seem to be having a huge impact on the gaming community and Mario Kart DS is just the sort of high profile game that the console needs to regain some of the gaming community’s attention.

REVIEW: CALL OF DUTY 2

Format: PC and Xbox360 (pc version tested)
Publisher: Activision
Developer: Infinity Ward
Genre: FPS
Price: Premture heart attack
Reviewer: One adrenaline filled Munki

SO WHY ALL THE CAPITALS? BECAUSE CALL OF DUTY 2 IS A CAPITAL LETTER GAME, RAWR!!!!!!. Sorry, I don’t know what came over me then COVER ME I’M RELOADING! Ahh! Yeah this has been happening a lot since I got CoD2, and by a lot I mean “for about 20 minutes AFTER I stop playing”. It’s relentless. It’s got no pace. It rips off of Halo quite a bit (I mean Halo of all games?) Yet It’s BLOODY AMAZING. English soldiers say “wanker” and “rotter” quite a bit.

Update v.1.4

A few more updates this Christmas season:

[revisit] Counter – Strike: Source

Format: Pc
Publisher: Valve (via Steam)
Producer: Valve and Turtle Rock Studios
Genre: Online First Person Shooter
Price: Variable (depends on package)
Origin: US
Reviewer: Munki

Ah Counter-Strike, cs, cs, cs. After playing every incarnation of this game for as long as I have it’s strange that I’m finding it so hard to begin a review/revisit of source. I suppose the best place to start is the source engine. It’s perfect eye candy delicious explosions, twisty fun ragdoll physics and beautifully high polygon models with amazing textures. It sounds great as well, carpets crunch under your feet, computers crashing apart as you knife them; and all this visual and audio beauty wrapped around the legendary cs gameplay. it should be perfect, it should be amazing, it’s not. So in this revisit I’m going to concentrate rather unfarely on the negative, we all know whats good about counter-strike and the source engine so theres no point going over that again and again and again.

Review: Sony Playstation Portable (PSP)

Manufacturer: Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE)/Sony
Use: Primarily Handheld Games Machine, also Multimedia Device
Price: UK Value Pack £179.99, Giga Pack £219.99
Origin: Japan
Reviewer: Sideath

Nintendo has more or less dominated the handheld gaming market for more than 15 years with the Game Boy model. Affordable, portable, reliable and simple. Over 100 million Game Boys have been sold, and have beaten off competition from such big names as Sega, 3D0 and Atari. Now, nearing the new generation of videogames, Nintendo has a real challenge – a challenge with the name, the style and the power – the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP).