You will see, occasionally, the complaint that a video game has been given a perfect score. 10/10. 5/5. All five stars. The complaint tends to be that there are too many of these perfect numbers. These scores must come, the thinking goes, from easily impressed reviewers who are as full of bias as they are breathless.
Lt Col Oliver North is a polarising figure in American history and, we found out, earlier this month, an advisor on the next huge Call of Duty game, Black Ops II. North isn’t your average video game consultant. He was one of the main actors in the Iran-Contra scandal that wracked America in the ’80s.
The people at the National Academy of Video Game Testers and Reviewers have sent me a survey in an email that was topped with the deceptive subject line “Game Reporter of the Year?”
Angry Birds on Facebook is now Angry Birds Friends, a re-naming that will either horrify you or launch a new Facebook gaming addiction.
Above, an image screencapped on my computer the day this past March when we broke the news that the so-called PlayStation 4 is codenamed Orbis.