42 Ways To Improve Videogames

We all love the games industry. Over the years it has provided us with thousands of hours of joy, excitement, fun and wonder. Unfortunately, it also produces more than its fair share of boredom, rage and frustration too, and we're often all too ready to make our voices heard on the subject.

However, maybe we're being a little harsh. Maybe it isn't as easy as it looks. If you actually had the ability and opportunity to improve the games industry, what exactly would you do? It wasn't until I sat down and started to think about it that I realized it may not be so easy after all. In fact, it'd be an absolute nightmare...

Transformers 3 Footage Online...

If, like me, you enjoyed the first Transformers movie as a good old-fashioned popcorn romp, you were no doubt as horrified and appalled as I was when Michael Bay decided to fashion the second movie into a stupid, puerile teenage gag-fest (in both senses of the word).

Thankfully, it appears he has seen sense. The first trailer for Transformers: Dark Of The Moon has arrived and, not wishing to jump the gun here, it already appears to have a far more suitable tone than its predecessor.

The Vault: Advent Rising

 No, it's not Halo. I know it looks like it, but trust me, it ain't...

Before I begin, let me explain what The Vault is. Think of The Vault as where I keep all the games, films and books that I've played, watched and read over the years and truly, deeply, with every ounce of my soul, despised. The broken, the shoddy, the incomprehensible, they're all here. Every so often, I'll dust one off and analyze just why I hated it so much.

This week, I offer you an Xbox game published by Majesco Entertainment in 2005, Advent Rising. Or Bile Rising, as it should be more accurately monikered. Set spleen to vent...

If Idiots Could Fly, LIVE Would Be An Airport...

The internet is an almost perfect gaming solution. Gone is the perception of the lonely gamer, locked away in his room for hours on end, interacting with no-one but his level 50 Dark Elf Cleric. Now he can be playing against people the world over, using a VOIP headset to communicate directly with other players, or even to catch up with friends and family while he plays. A world of friendly, like-minded gamers now stretches across the globe - all eager to meet each other and compete in good-natured contests of skill and reaction time.

Short Story: Lower

Street rats. Vermin that live off the pain of others. They swarm like a locust plague through the city; the police are swamped, the authorities too disinterested to care. Why spend time and resources on those that can't afford to grease the wheels of the system? Let them fight it out in their squalor and desperation; as long as it's contained below the Open Sectors, it's not their problem. It doesn't exist.

Antiheroes of repute. Ill-repute. Whatever.

As we all know, everyone loves an antihero, and cinema has certainly provided us with some of the best over the years. Enthrenched firmly in the murky waters of moral and ethical quandary, they speak to us of all that's good and bad in humanity.

Below are listed my personal favourites, seven of the best antiheroes to ever inhabit a moral grey-area. Why seven? Heck if I know, but it's a nice round figure...