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There is a revamped, remodelled, reworked PlayStation Portable on the way. Over the last few weeks we’ve seen rumours flying, details revealed and even speculation surrounding a new PSP name. Over at PALGN, my weekly column, The Wrap has just landed, and I’m attempting to sort the fact from the fiction, the wishful thinking from the watertight, the logical from the ludicrous, the rational from the rubbish…you get the idea.

You’ll find The Wrap #29 here.

Cheers,

The Incomplete Gamer

It’s that time of the week again.  My weekly  musings over in the hallowed halls of PALGN has just been posted.

This week I take a look at video game narrative.  Dr Souvik Mukherjee, a researcher and computer game narrative expert from the School of Arts & Humanities at Nottingham Trent University, believes that ‘the complex mesh of possible storylines and deep levels of involvement in video game narratives relate to, and often surpass, the experience of earlier narrative media, such as books and films.’

He’d get no argument from Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux’s who back in March famously predicted “Godfather” levels of storytelling in games by 2016, then upped the ante even further last month at GDC, stating that he believed video games would actually surpass those levels of story telling.

What do I think?  You’ll have to read The Wrap #27 to find out.  And remember, you’ll find links to earlier columns at the end of this week’s ‘Wrap’.

Enjoy.

The Incomplete Gamer

If things have been a little quiet at The Incomplete Gamer it’s because I’ve taken on a new video games writing gig.  I’m back, writing a regular weekly column - The Wrap – after a two year hiatus; courtesy of the good folk at PALGN who thankfully don’t subscribe to the old adage that ‘you can never go home again’.  It turns out it was just my folks who believed that; although in their defence, they always swore that they had meant to tell me they had moved… but that’s another story.

The Incomplete Gamer isn’t going anywhere.  if anything you should start to see increased gaming coverage (both news and reviews) as a result of my additional game writing duties, as I spend more of my day immersed in gaming, reviewing and with my head, hard-wired into the online video game news world.

You can read my latest column over at PALGN here. It drops ever Saturday – think of it as your antidote to a slow news day.   The Wrap #24 looks at the health of the games industry in these rocky economic times.  Recent colums have looked at the way the motor industry use video games as a marketing tool, poked fun at the European Union’s efforts to enforce parental controls on consoles, and taken a (tongue planted firmly in cheek) look, at all the evil things video games are responsible for.

You’ll find links to all previous editions of The Wrap at the end of each article.  If I do say so myself, they’re a good read and I’m sure you’ll enjoy.

Cheers,

The Incomplete Gamer

Fans of sitcoms and procedural crime drama were treated this week to a cross over double act with a difference featuring CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (8:30pm, Sunday 29th June, Channel Nine) and Two and a Half Men (Tuesday, 8:30pm, 1 July, Channel Nine).

So was this stunt TV or was it an an original cross over concept that breathed fresh life into two tired television genres? Today The Incomplete Gamer stopped writing about Tivo long enough to pick up the peanut remote and find out for ourselves.

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