This article was written by Allie Coyne for ITJourno.com as part of their blog watch feature which takes a look at some of the lesser known Australian tech sites and media outlets. It was originally published on their website on Wednesday 13th July 2011 at 8:00am. Trent Petronaitis
I’ve wanted to write this piece for quite some time, especially with the resent reshuffle of the social world. The sellout of MySpace, and the creation of Google+ make this perfect timing, as well as other players such as LinkedIn becoming more dominant. I always felt, MySpace had too
Konami
Picture this; an amazingly well presented spirited Gameboy Color game. It contains gameplay which engulfs the player and keeps them entertained dispute the systems limitations. Now picture the game had a generation hiatus, a little room to breathe, now picture that when the game was finally back into your heart
3DS
Introduction Excite Bike is a timeless classic from the early days of the NES. A title that found itself in many homes, with crashed bikes and high scoring jumps, has now been updated as a 3D Classic for the Nintendo 3DS system. The question is does this high profile update
3DS
Remember the Windows 7 Parties? Probably not, after maybe everyone who did it only did it for the free copy of Windows 7. But I had one- well my brother did, because he does those things with computers, and we had a huge row of computers powering this operating system
Konami
Introduction Released in 2008, Konami’s latest entry into the series was forgotten and skipped by many who played the three Nintendo DS titles. The games where riddled with problems over the series original Game Boy Color entries under the name Survival Kids, but improvements did slowly appear as Konami
Survival
Over the life span of video games been part of the home, something has happened every so often to shatter the way the think when it comes to video games. Most of them are just trends which make developers push out one particular genre like there’s no tomorrow. While
There is one major thing wrong with Lego games today- and possibly for ever. It isn’t a simple idea to grasp- but at the same time it should be one already known and dealt with. Instead its getting more and more prominent. What is this issue you might ask?
CiNG
Introduction Previously Hotel Dusk was released, introducing a character called Kyle Hyde from a chirpy little company from Japan called CiNG. CiNG shows gamers their final title both in the series and from the studio in form of Last Window, a sequel to the sleeper hit Hotel Dusk produced by
Nintendo-X2
Trent is back with the end of the original 3 part series which DS-X2 has been posting. What gaming has taught us reaches its final stage with an observation about hobbies. If we thought of what gaming could teach us as just what we play, then no doubt we would
Economics
Another day brings another feature article. Once again from Trent in his “What Video Games have Taught Us” series, this time a shorter editorial about economics in video games. What has gaming taught us? Probably nothing, but as gamers we like to think and say we are learning things from
Article
Slow news days are always a pain, but for the rest of the week DS-X2 will be posting articles from the 3 part feature article series by Trent Petronaitis. First one is more of an observation- about sharing. In the early nineties one of the biggest generations grew up around