I PLAYED IT IN COLOGNE

• 19Dec 09

  step 1 to fixing the Trocadero. WHERE THE F**K IS SEGAWORLD!?

  Click here for a video on how good Sega world London use to be.

  Back in 1996 the wrolds largest indoor theme park and arcade 'SegaWorld' opened in the London Trocadero.

  Four years later it was closed down.

  What remains is Funland and a fine selection of random crap. Today Trocadero is the Coney Island of London; a semi deserted, uncared for piece of entertainment history. It was the place I had taken my first date, it was the place I use to go to for EVERY birthday growing up.

  Realisitically, I dont see Segaworld coming back. It was the death of the arcades during the late 90's that brought it to its knees. That and the reductions of Sega as a company.

  But hey, who knows maybe someday. Something as cool as Segaworld, or at least something thats looked after and with pretty lights can be back in the Troc.

  From a Londoner born and raised on the streets of Sonic, I miss you.

  • Posted Dec 19, 2009 10:42 am PT
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• 13Dec 09

  'dont b nervous talking 2 girls'- yup I bought it and heres a video

  Heres the video of me playing it, you probably want to watch that first to know what the hell I'm talking about.

  

  For the past year independent gamers having been welding their ambitious programing/ developing 'talent' upon the gamers of Xbox Live with varying degrees of awesome. Theres the ones that really try for something original and fun like 'Kudo game lab'. Theres the novelty cash in games like 'pumpkin carver' released during the Halloween season. And then theres the old school formula reworked with pretty pixels, such as 'I made a game with zombies'.

  This game falls into none of those categories. Its just crazy. But its also kinda practical and for an upcoming independent gaming studio quite the cash in. Because lets face it, we gamers have been known to not be the smoothest with the ladies, right? Plus we'll almost always buy a game with a pretty girl on it. I'm not sure which of these facts is more depressing

  I have to say however despite my initial speculations on the game, it works well as a 'play it with your mates for a laugh' game. You know like a guilty pleasure. Its pretty funny to see friends reaction when they got a cocky negative response from 'Jessica' the virtual hottie.

  And from a single man who practically has no game, I do find that I am actually learning the basics of being smooth.

  ...And learning how tall the tallest rollarcoaster is :/

  • Posted Dec 13, 2009 1:45 pm PT
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• 6Dec 09

  SEGA CANDY GIVEAWAY!- plus I almost forgot to post about the MCM expo

  

  Reply to this question- "who is the coolest Sonic sidekick ever? - Tails, Knuckles or Shadow? "Winner will be picked at random, and according to the right answer (which is my fixed personal opinion...and the obvious one really). There is only one sweet to give away per blog, per winner (yes this blog is available on both IGN and Gamespot) COMPETITION OPEN TO ALL INTERNATIONAL ENTRIES. I will announce the winner on this blog post comments section, please then leave me a contact whether it is a facebook or Xbox profile to arrange a delivery address. I'm under Mark Boss on facebook, you can't miss the profile pic.

  P.s. I can't assure whether or not this sweet will still be edible. It's been a month or so since Eurogamer. Although it is a boiled sweet, and from my understanding these things can survive a nuclear holocaust.

  Now onto the rest of the blog...

  2009, for me this has been the year of the expo. And whilst the Germany Gamescom has rightly dominated all, 'said with my Gamescom camp wrist band still attached four months later', there have been some great expos over here in merry old London. Chief among them- the October MCM expo.

  

  At the start of what were a somewhat hectic couple of weeks I attended the MCM expo on the 24th of October for the second time this year. And boy what a pile of awesome it ended up being.

  What's always made the MCM expo are the cosplayers. It's here where they hold the world record attempt each year for the most cosplayers in one spot, and which they usually top each year round. And it's these guys that make up the atmosphere at the joint. At the first MCM expo of the year I encountered my first wave of video games cosplayers as can be seen in this great cosplay selection video I did.

  Then there were the games present- Bayonetta, L4D2, Assassins Creed 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction. A pretty good turnout for what is a mixed entertainment expo event, with the real focus being once again on cosplayers.

  Here's some of the videos highlights of the event as well as the Eurogamer event which was on the following weekend.

  One of my favourite interviews from the show was this awesome Bayonetta interview where at the end I posed the question, was Bayonetta inspired by a certain Chobot?

  I interview two hot cosplayers about doing it pro

  What do gamers think of the Aliens vs Predator demo?

  Watch as Ubisoft rep takes us through the Splinter Cell demo

  The PlusXp and gamers-unite gang discuss their impressions on the new Super Mario Bros

  And if you enjoyed those videos please visit PlusXP.com for loads more including my Mod War 2 marathon. Theres also the gamersuniteTUBE page on Youtube.

  As you can probably tell I don't blog as much as I used to and the events that these videos were filmed at are from some time ago. Right now the main place for all my vids will be PlusXp.com the sister site to gamers-unite.com, my blog has now become more of like my diary. Which is still cool. And yes Gamers-unite.com is still on the way. After a false start earlier this year due to some poor filming equipment, I had to take some time and rethink my **** out. Right now the site is being worked on by two separate web designers and there's around 30 writers/ video hosts interested in participating including the guys over at PlusXp.com

  But that's a story for another blog.

  I shall leave you guys with this photo and one of the reasons I love being gaming video journalist.

  

  Because the people in this industry are awesome.

  P.S. just want to give a shout out to my mate James Gilmour whom has recently started as an intern on Gamespot UK, have fun there bro, and hopefully they will do the right thing and hire you full time.He's kindalike Justin Calvert...but awesomer. Heres a link to the news article he wrote recently and he can also be heard in the past weeks Gamespot UK podcast.

  www.gamespot.com/users/markB0SS

  www.blogs.ign.com/markB0SS

  That's 'Boss' spelt with a zero

  • Posted Dec 6, 2009 4:54 am PT
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