Because No One Asked For... Terraria's 1.2 Update To BE So Darn Good!

I initially went to write this review of Terraria's latest and long awaited 1.2 update at about 11.30am this morning. I then thought I'd better put a half hour into the game - having only put 7 hours in since its launch on Tuesday - just to see if I'd discover yet another new addition down amongst the pixelated stone and dirt dungeons. 2 hours later I stopped for lunch. Then when I went to start writing a little later on I somehow managed to put in a further hour. Welcome to a repeat prescription of my life circa October 2011 when I first downloaded Re-Logic's 2D adventure/RPG masterpiece to my PC.

Because No One Asked For... October 2013 To Be Pure Online Gaming Carnage, But I'll Be Happy About It!

We are now less than one week away from 1st October 2013. It's not generally heralded as a special day in particular out of the 365 (or 366 - leap year blah blah yadda yadda yadda) we experience each and every Gregorian monitored orbit of the Sun. This year it even falls on a Tuesday and I think we'd all struggle to place Tuesdays above seventh place in a popularity contest of the days of the week in terms of importance (Public Holidays are gonna help out Mondays' case, surely?!).

This coming Tuesday, however, looks destined to be something quite different if you happen to be a video gamer and particularly an online player.  In fact it looks set to be a very special, if not deliriously annoying in the very best of ways Tuesday. Like some strange celestial phenomena, where heavenly bodies align their magnetic fields, playing merry chaos with the mental faculties of all in its path, we are going not only going to be confronted with the release of GTA Online, but also Battlefield 4's Multiplayer Beta and from Re-Logic we have Terraria's long awaited 1.2 update.

Because No One Asked For...An Insight Into When I'll Buy An Xbox One

I’ve been a proud owner of an Xbox 360 for 6 years and been a player of the console for even longer (oh thank you former shared house situation). Before that I also owned the original Xbox console for a couple of years and continued using it into the infancy of its successor. I will at some point also own the newly announced Xbox One console. I’m pretty darn certain of this. The next generation of gaming does look promising; the technology seems impressive, franchises are arguably in something of a golden age with critical success after critical success and certain big money publishers are dominating the industry with annual quality efforts. Indie games developers have also excelled themselves when using the current generation technology and the prospect of what they’ll be able to deliver in the next five years on a new machine is mouth-watering to say the least.  I’m less certain however, that I will be making my investment into Microsoft’s next brave new world within the first 12 to 18 months of the console’s launch this Autumn, and this is for a number of reasons.

But first, a small journey through time...