I suppose it's about time I discussed this. I'm sure a lot of you will have heard me make reference to a device known as "the Falcon" recently. I have this device on loan from the university as part of my fourth year project.

The Falcon is supposedly (we'll get to that) a Next-Generation Games Controller. It's a haptics device, some that attempts to bring touch sensation into games. Despite all the literature hailing it as a revolution in gaming, it's been around for a good two years now and nobody seems to care.

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It's funny how one of the big beefs people have (okay, myself included) with so-called "next-gen" games is that they are brown. But really, this is nothing new. Games were brown in the past, too.

Quake II, oh Quake II and your two mission packs, you are so much shorter than I remember you being. But you are so brown, oh so brown. With the odd splash of grey, when you're feeling a bit racy.

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I completed Mass Effect yesterday, and with the power of Pinnacle Station managed to reach a curb-stomping level 57.

It's hard to say where a game's "end sequence" really begins. I think the only definition I can apply is "when you realise that shit just got real." It's when you've just uncovered the bad guy's last secret and you're now on the all-out assault on his base. An assault from which you cannot return, naturally.

I love dramatic finales, so I'm going to consider some for this blog. Spoilers for Mass Effect, Unreal II, Deus Ex and Sonic 3 & Knuckles may ensue, so don't say I didn't warn you.

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... Gets its own page on wikipedia, it's that hard core.

Every time I play Deus Ex, I want to mod it. Just like every time I play Unreal II: the Awakening, I want to blog about it. Just like every time I say something, Kilbirnie says the opposite and Jack fuckin' hates that shit.

I've tried to mod Deus Ex before, with varying degrees of success. I did most of my work a considerable number of years ago, back when command prompts were still scary. But now, I've jumped back in with minimal fuss and it is absolutely delightful.

This, then, is the story of my love affair with UnrealEd.

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Since I paid the princely sum of £3.99 for Mass Effect's latest downloadable content pack, Pinnacle Station, I feel the right to lambast it horribly.

Well, I can't lambast it horribly; it was all right. It wasn't £3.99 all right, though -- maybe closer to £1.99. Especially since the previous DLC, Bring Down the Sky, came out free for PC users.

Grumble grumble.

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