Sony 007 Text-Based Adventure

So, anyone else old enough to remember the old text-based adventure games of old? I actually missed their heyday, as by the time I picked up and Amiga they'd pretty much been replaced by good old Point-and-Click games (and now that I've typed that, I've got a serious hankering to go play one. Maybe Flight of the Amazon Queen...)

As Dr Cooper says, they run on the most powerful graphics card of all; Imagination.

But if you've a powerful hankering for some nostalgia, or perhaps just want to kill some time before the evening showing of Skyfall (I saw it last night, but most of the Quantum Geek team are off tonight), this might be just the thing for you.

Turns out, Sony have commissioned their own text-based adventure, which can be found here, to tie into the release of Skyfall and their new Xperia. Best of luck, agent...

Gamescom is here & Tearaway is coming...

So there's this thing called Gamescom happening this week in Cologne, it's the worlds largest video games trade fair and today it kicked off with a whole bunch of press conferences by some of the worlds biggest publishers showcasing their upcoming games.

Sony also held a press conference which seems to have been a direct responsie to most of the criticism they received following E3 - namely that they neglected their new handheld, the Playstation Vita - of which I am a happy new owner (why I got the Vita and how I'm getting on with it I'll save for another blog post or two).  Suffice to say, they kicked off their Gamescom conference by announcing new games for the Vita, this was the one that caught my eye though - it's by Media Molecule, the guys that made Little Big Planet and it looks... well... amazing:

If you are quick you can also pick up a Vita for the BARGAIN price of £144 from Tesco - click here to learn how...