I have managed to travel to my home town of Ireland twice in the last two months, so more then usual. It has been blissfully rainy and wonderfully coated in damp mist living up to all my usual expectations. Sadly my passport ran out so I have to stay put for a bit while it [...]

In January of this year, I finally got myself a HDTV. The feeling I got when I saw it all set up, shiny and pretty… let’s just say I was very, very happy.
I had been wanting to get one for at least 2 years, but other, more boring but also more essential things got in [...]

I’m not a one-console-girl, but it is the DS which always comes with me. From the moment I first got my hands on a DS, it has been one of the constant gems of my console collection, doubling as both a geeky and a girly accessory. Say anything you like about consoles being made in [...]

It is always nice to walk into a posh hotel, announce your name, and be escorted down into a private function room. I managed to get this rare privilege by knowing a competition winner of an Xbox Live community event. I’m not sure what it was they won at, or why they were unable to tell me, [...]

As with almost everything in life, the key to making a great team combat game is properly understanding how Star Trek relates to it. Players each instinctively fulfil the role of a Star Trek character when they group up in games. Even if they have never seen Star Trek. It cannot be explained adequately by [...]

BioShock 2 was released last month. Heavy Rain was released last month. A friend returned my Breakfast Club soundtrack featuring that catchy song by Simple Minds last month. Okay forget that last thing. The point is February saw me being a very excited girl.
But should I have been? Was I being somewhat naive? I mean, [...]

Hello and welcome to The Cynic’s Guide here on Ready Up, where our resident cynic, Tony, will be taking you through this week’s topic, being Video Game Titles.
Title: Well Known Game 2
After the roaring success of the first Well Known Game, the developers can literally smell the disposable income of the millions of you screaming [...]

Last weekend I managed to Team Deathmatch myself to a Commander (level 70) in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Considering it took me over 50 hours of online play to get there, I’m extremely loath to select Prestige and revert myself back to a Private. I’ve played online with people who are currently on [...]

I was at a LAN recently.  A wide mixture of games were being played – FPS, RTS, driving, sim, fighters even rhythm games – but the game played the most was an MMO, namely World of Warcraft.  I see more and more WOW at LAN events and, given that it’s not a LAN game, I [...]

Games are escapism. You get the chance to be something you’ll never be in real life, whether that’s a superhero, a marine, a raider of tombs or an Italian plumber. In pursuit of escapism from my mundane, somewhat geeky life I entered the world of “the bimbo”. Miss Bimbo is “an online virtual reality social networking game” [...]