Tomorrow's future – today!

While you wait for the opportunity to pay £60 for a couple of Resident Evil games on the 3DS, why not pass the time by playing an excellent one right now on your iPod for under 60p?

Zombie Infection is a great-looking third-person instalment in videogaming’s ongoing persecution of the undead community, has excellent controls and is currently on sale at an unmissably bargainous 59p. (If even that’s too much to risk, there’s also a free demo version.) If you want something to show people the iPod is about more than Angry Birds, but want to spend under £1 doing it, it’s your lucky day.

Touch my geometry, missus

It might lack Retina graphics and it might need better thumbstick placement (specifically more scrolling so that you aren’t always covering important screen areas with your thumbs, something most other iPod twin-stick shooters have managed without making a big fuss about it), but Geometry Wars Touch is still a big chunk of quality game for 59p.

Which is what it’s currently going for, so get in there.

What Bristol means to me

Alert WoS viewers will already know that despite having lived adjacent to it for almost 20 years, I've never really got on with the oddly characterless city of Bristol. This year, though, I made an extra-special effort, which included going to the Bristol Harbour Festival.

Is the 3DS the new PSP?

So do we care about the 3DS or not? I just don't know.

Since the release of the software lineup trailer, everyone on the internet's been getting very excited, in a way that only Nintendo really achieves. 

(I know people queue up at midnight to buy Halo Reach and gobble up Modern Combat in their billions and beseige Apple Stores whenever Steve Jobs removes another feature from the iPod Nano, but only Mario and Zelda seem to still have the ability to turn grown men into simpering fanboys.)

But something struck me on watching the video, and in the light of the recent news about the console's price. Is the 3DS actually the new PSP?

PS3 Move – the WoSblog experience

I saw one running in Tesco HomePlus on Friday while I was out looking for a new office chair, and was quite interested in having a go on the table-tennis game that was being shown, so I had a read of the on-screen instructions and grabbed the cute and nicely-built (if rather light) "wand" controller.

I spent five minutes unsuccessfully trying to calibrate it, then gave up. 1/10.

The creatures looked from pig to man

"…and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to tell which was which."

WoSblog Game O'The Day

Is the tremendous Finger Sling.

I have to go out right now, but I'll explain why it's so great later. Although since it's free, you really ought to have found out for yourself by the time I get back anyway. Get to it, and I'll see you on the leaderboard.

The Old New Adventures Of Hitler

Man, I've been waiting for this to happen for ages. A long long time ago, when I was barely half as old as I am now, there was a magazine called Cut. A sort of artsier Scottish version of the NME, it was a music-and-culture-and-politics newspaper that came out either weekly or fortnightly, I forget which.

Either way, in 1989 Cut began publication of a comic strip written by Grant Morrison (the eccentric/mental creator of Zenith and The Invisibles, among many others), called The New Adventures Of Hitler.

Using the old noodle

Another punch in the kidneys today for all those people who say the iPod's touch screen is no good for "traditional" types of game.

Aftermath is basically Resident Evil meets Robotron, a third-person twin-stick zombie shooter conducted mostly in darkness, but the ingenious aspect is the way that your character shoots automatically at anything illuminated by his torch, simplifying the controls without reducing the difficulty any.

It's excellent and temporarily free right now, so don't hang about.

You'd need a heart of stone not to

"Frog in a rainbow flowing water to drink, had a special ability.
Oh! Swim in the sky…
Listen to the sound of frogs in the wind.
More snow jump right to the shorter distance, and if it does drip a little to be recovered.

What's new

The birth of a new game."