Guitar Hero

Plagiarism through the ages

The creators of the vastly popular PlayerUnknown’s Battle Grounds made gaming news headlines last week, taking legal action against a handful of games mimicking PUBG a little too closely. One clone features a frying pan as a melee weapon, while another uses the term ‘Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner’...

Game Y’self Better

Recently I have become rather obsessed with the idea of self improvement. I’ve started running. I’ve started eating breakfast. I’ve stopped being a vegetarian. I also got myself into thinking that games could help me achieve my dreams of being a better person. Since Brain Training sold approximately...

News just in: FIFA is still popular

UK Charts Only an idiot would doubt that FIFA 11 would take the top spot in the UK chart this week. How many copies have been sold though is really quite astonishing – 821,000 in just one weekend. In total FIFA 11 counts for 51% of all games...

Celebrity squares

Kurt Cobain would have hated Guitar Hero and even before Courtney Love complained about the inappropriate use off his personality in Guitar Hero 5, I knew it would cause an uproar. Apparently No Doubt and Jon Bon Jovi weren’t happy about the way that they were portrayed either,...