Moving house. It’s oh-so-incredibly not fun. I moved into a new house ready for my final year at university on the 26th of June, where I have been without internet and key items of furniture for the past three weeks, luckily in my possession however, I was able to unpack the following key items:

1. The [...]

I’d imagine we’ve all had at least one moment where we’ve dreamed of becoming a video game character. Whether it be for the powers they possess, the life they lead, the world they live in or the way they look. Re-creating a character’s look is nothing new, of course; cosplay is huge all over the [...]

It is a man’s world, but he would be nothing without a woman… or maybe he would be more, maybe he would be able to get on with dreaming of jet-packs and 3D. Then we could have had mammoth leaps forward in the world of gaming years ago…  if only there wasn’t a woman standing [...]

When you’ve been gaming as long as I have you reach the stage where you can pick up any game in a genre you have already played and just jump straight in. This is great, in some respects. I love that any shooter or RPG or even action game is instantly playable to me as [...]

Blizzard rocked the on-line gaming world with the announcement that their forums will no longer allow users to “Hide” behind gamer-ids or pseudonyms but their posts will be tagged with their REAL NAMES! This idea was subsequently withdrawn but the initial announcement was pretty widely reported, and had even made the BBC news web site, [...]

Hitman: Blood Money was developed by IO Interactive and released on PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Xbox 360 in the summer of 2006. The most recent title in the stealth-based Hitman series, it places players in the iconic role of ruthless ice-cool assassin Agent 47. The immaculately dressed clone is placed in a series of [...]

Okay, that’s it, I cannot remain silent on the topic anymore. I was hoping, nay – praying, that the motion control fad bubble would blow over without me having to spew my pessimistic bile all over it. I just wanted to go ahead with my daily business of not sleeping, get to the Winchester, have [...]

To many gamers it would seem that the mighty Sony can do no wrong, after the runaway success of the Playstation 1 and the market dominance of the Playstation 2 you would have been forgiven for thinking that there could be no competition.  Alas there were more than a few hiccups in getting the Playstation [...]

We’ve all been there.  Sometimes you just get obsessed with a game… but sometimes, idiots like myself take things a little further than your average obsessive gamer.
You buy the game on a whim. Then you play it. Soon, you’ve bought all the downloadable content, including spending real money on items to make your avatar look [...]

Affro King
Contact
E-mail: walter@ready-up.net
Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1978
Nicknames: affro / affroking / kingaffro
Career
Toshiba – MSX [1984 - 1986]

In 1984 I was exposed to a device called the Toshiba MSX, This gained me access to my first few computer games, including; The Race, Ghostbusters the Video Game and Manic Miner
Sega –  Master System [1987 - 1992]

With [...]