There is hope yet for an R18+ rating down here in Australia!

Here’s a quick entry for you guys just to update you on the current situation down on the other side of the planet.

You guys have been following this for awhile now thanks to these previous entries:
I fucking hate this country!
I fucking hate this country! Part 2
I… This country confuses me! (IFHTC! Part 3)

But it looks like there is still some hope left in this country…

Are we finally going to grow up?

My first MMO: The Lord of the Rings Online

Ever since they came into existence, I’ve always thought that I’d be able to go through life never having to play any kind of MMO game… ever.

I had to reconsider my position on MMO’s when BioWare and LucasArts announced Star Wars: The Old Republic… it’s pretty hard to resist… BioWare, Star Wars, the successor to Knights of the Old Republic… and the fact that it’ll be the ONLY decent Star Wars game to be released in a very long time make it something I really want.

Of course, since I have… had ZERO experience with MMO’s, it was going to be a little difficult for me to learn about the basics without feeling lost for most of the first couple of days of playing it. However, thanks to The Lord of the Rings Online, I’ve begun to gain a lot of valuable insights into MMO’s and I’ve begun to understand why they work the way they do.

Legolas! What do your Elf-eyes see?

My memories of Metroid

By now, you’ve all read my scathing Game Spotlight of Metroid: Other M… the first game I’ve ever actually HATED in my entire life. The game that has damaged my high regard of the Metroid series forever and there’s really no going back. Metroid used to be one of my favourite series of all time but now…

…now all I have are the memories of better days. In fact, some of them can be found on the Internet itself! I did a little digging around the forum of my old website, The Anime Crisis Center, and discovered some very interesting posts about how I felt about Metroid all those years ago. So, come back with me in time and let’s take a look at those ye olden posts…

Metroid has seen better days…

Nintendo 3DS

Unless you’ve poked out your own eyes and ruptured your eardrums somehow, then you’d be aware of the Nintendo 3DS which was officially revealed at E3 2010… though, maybe you’d only have to poke out one eye for the device to end up being just a more powerful DS in your eyes… eye… But is the 3DS just an evolution of the Nintendo DS or is it capable of providing much more than the DS ever could?

A lot of information about the Nintendo 3DS has been released over the past week including specs, pictures, hands-on impressions as well as a long list of games being developed for the system. There are a lot of people at E3 who absolutely love the 3DS and were amazed by its no-glasses 3D effect first-hand. People who weren’t lucky enough to attend E3 can only take their word for it… and that’s very unfortunate.

UPDATE: Eep, just a few minutes after publishing this entry I found out about this: Nintendo 3DS’s GPU: DMP’s PICA200.

Unfortunately, this web site is not in 3D

E3 2010

E3 2010 has come and gone, as a result we’ve been buried in a tonne of awesome things to look forward to in the future. Be warned, this will be an epicly long post the likes of which have not been seen on Twilight Lynk before…

As you can probably tell from the above image… Nintendo continues to laugh at the measure of their own success and their ability to print more and more money. It’s an unstoppable force unlike any we’ve ever seen and will one day consume the entire universe. Who will stop them? How can they be stopped? This is madness!

Of course, there were a lot of other great things being shown at E3 and this entry will go through everything that I have absorbed for the past few days…

I get the impression one of the big three is printing a lot of money right now…