Guardian Force UK

Along with probably a million other people I was watching the live coverage of the latest Apple keynote speech.

So what are the hard facts for us UK peeps;

• New design is nicer (IMO) and metal
• Much better camera and additional one on front
• WiFi Video Calling
• Much better (4x in fact) screen (although not quite 720 HD Apple)
• Pre Orders next week for June 24th release date in UK, USA, France, Germany, Japan
• No UK Prices YET

OK a more in-depth look below

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Since i’m a good old 80′s gaming geek Scott Pilgrim is literally right up my street, when I heard they were doing a film it was mixed feelings because the book’s so insane I thought they would struggle but if anyone can pull this off it’s the epic Mr Edgar Write (of Shaun of the Dead fame).

See what you think of the full length trailer.

This is definitely going to be a love it or hate it style movie, it’s not supposed to make sense or be intelligent but I am sure its going to be funny and effective which is really all it needs. Oh and obviously OTT fight scenes.

As far as casting goes there looks to be some pretty good choices in there, I like Cera anyway, he is a bit “one role” but he is an ace young actor and I’m sure he’s going to get better, most of the female cast I’m unfamiliar with but the style all looks great and we also have Chris “soon to be Captain America” Evans in there too who has always been a decent one in my books.

I loved the first Little Big Planet game- loads of fun and something a bit different. Now the trailer for the second game has been released and it looks like they’ve upped their game…

I can’t wait to play this! It also sounds like it comes complete with an irritatingly catchy sound track again just to ensure that you’ll be humming the music for days after you’ve played.

One thing I love about the gaming industry is that it seems to have an almost infinite amount of space to take this piss out of itself. Gamers are happy to laugh at each other, dress up as characters and mess around or generally have fun singing and playing air guitar with our mates. Unless of course you are a “serious” gamer or a “fanboy” in which case you’re still really funny because we’re [real gamers] laughing at you.

Anyway one of my Twitter Fellows, good web chap called Rhys Wynne, put me onto a little gem of a “professional” gaming reviewer who goes by the handle of Yahtzee and writes in a column he calls Zero Punctuation. (more…)

So we mainly post about gaming, media and cats playing musical instruments but alas politics affects all things, even lolcats and so with the upcoming UK general election I thought I could offer a brief insight into where and why my vote is currently going. Let’s get the fact right first.

I am 25, that means I have only voted once before in a proper election, I come from a mining town in the Midlands and I have worked, at least part time, since I was about 13. Tax Records will state that I started significantly later. I’m not ashamed to say I have an anti-Tory bias.

I come from a mining town, my dad was a miner, and I was born in the early 80′s that means my childhood was heavily influenced by the fallout of the miners strikes. On top of this the Tories are hardly the most “in line” with my belief system, I am libertarian (although that Wiki article is shit) and even though this Political stance embraces many ideals it does not stand for the unbalanced “save our rich people” campaign the Tories are basically pushing.

This being said I have approached this election as unbias as possible, I listened to what Cameron had to say just as much as the other parties and I would not deny them my vote just because past policies have been pretty crap.

Anyway, the truth is that this election is really important, the World Wide economic crisis has really shook things up and there are a lot of game changing decisions to be made over things like tax, immigration, virtual law, privacy and national defence that drastically effect me and my peers, we really need to get this one right. So far we have had months of campaigning and one interesting TV debate (with two to go) so here are my thoughts so far… (more…)