A couple of weeks ago, I got a very unusual electronic invitation (Evite) from my good friends Eric and Kristy. They were throwing a party to celebrate the launch of Rockband, a PS2/PS3/Xbox 360 game developed by Harmonix Music Systems. I had heard of the game but in my whole new busy-busy-rush-rush world, hadn’t had [...]
My Sims DS: My Review
Having officially clocked 17 hours, 21 minutes and 24 seconds on my main character, not to mention the undocumented time I’ve put in rolling and re-rolling my characters, I think it’s about time I wrote a review on My Sims for the Nintendo DS. Besides, my fan club (which consists of a few of my [...]
Decorating and Fashion Disasters
Those Addictive Sims
I always thought that a handheld gaming console (ie. Nintendo’s DS or Sony’s PSP) was meant to be played when you are on the road or somewhere away from your state-of-the-art gaming machine with matching high-end flat-screen monitor/TV. It certainly beats reading a two-week-old well-thumbed issue of People Magazine while waiting at the dentist’s office. [...]
Singstar for the PS3
Longing for”Home”?
The big tech news this week is that Sony faced another disappointment with the delay of “Home”, a virtual world designed for PS3 online users. But really, I think the big deal has more to do with the Asian concept of “losing face” than anything else because I certainly don’t see PS3 users moaning and [...]
MMORPGs in the PS3′s Future?
It’s no secret that Sony’s PS3 is currently losing the “third generation console war”, if one were to even admit that there was such a thing. While the Wii continues to outsell its rivals, and the Xbox 360 struggles to maintain second place, the poor PS3 remains in third position largely due to a lack [...]

