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Soapbox: Bring Back Warhawk on PS5, You Cowards Share: The year 2007 was a particularly good year for online multiplayer. Most notably, this was the year Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare launched, and its influence can't be overstated: it changed the landscape of multiplayer shooters for good. While I absolutely spent dozens of hours playing Infinity Ward's excellent FPS, another 2007 shooter had my heart — Warhawk. Obviously, this third person shooter was a smaller scale offering than Call of Duty. There was no offline, single player campaign; it was online only, which was a fairly foreign c...

Plumber Dan Soap Box derby wows crowd on return to Whanganui streets 25 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 3 minutes to read Thousands of keen locals gathered on the banks and streets around Pukenamu Queen's Park for the return of the Soap Box Derby. The street race returned to the centre of Whanganui for the first time since 2018, with Dan Goldsworthy (Plumber Dan) taking over the reins for this year's event. About 80 entered the derby which was part of Bayleys Whanganui Vintage Weekend. Starting at the top of Pukenamu, a wide variety of homemade carts and drift trikes raced down the windi...

Soapbox: The NYT Thinks We're Gaming Too Much, But It's One Of The Only Things Keeping Me Sane Share: It's that time of year again: a large publication has had decided that kids play too many games, and this time it's a COVID-flavoured special, courtesy of the New York Times, designed to make parents feel guilty for letting their energy-filled children play video games after being cooped up all day doing online school. I won't pretend that video games are actually perfect, although it's tempting to go on the defence, here. There are a lot of predatory practices in games, like microtransactio...

The coronavirus effect - Look, I don't want to be a downer, but 2021 is going to be a strange year for video games. Not on...

Soapbox: A Resident Evil Outbreak Reboot Makes Far Too Much Sense Share: It is quite clear that Japanese developer Capcom loves to experiment with its biggest franchises from time to time, and Resident Evil has to be one of the best examples of that. The series actually went first-person way before Resident Evil 7: Biohazard with the PlayStation 1's Resident Evil Survivor, and questionable multiplayer offerings have never been far away. The very forgettable Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City and Resident Evil Resistance are proof of that. Not the greatest line-up of spin-offs, then, but t...