On the recommendation of Julian ‘Rabbit’ Murdoch from the Gamers with Jobs podcast, I bought the Space Miner game for my iPhone.

I played it for a couple of minutes during my lunch break and was really disappointed because it was just Asteroids.

I tried it again a day or two later and realised… it’s Asteroids with a tech tree. And therefore it is awesome.

Oh, and it’s kinda amusing too. Worth the $2.50.

E3 is pretty much over, and here are the disc-based games that I’m looking forward to in the next 12 months:

• Gran Turismo 5
• God of War III
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Assassin’s Creed 2
• Uncharted 2
• The Last Guardian

As you can see, originality is (nearly) dead in the console market. Pretty much everything is a sequel or a clone of another title.

This speaks for itself, really. The PS3 is starting to attract the game developers that have always drawn me to the PlayStation platform. Quirky, offbeat titles are far more my cup of tea than the typical shooting/fighting games, and Team Ico have never released anything less than stellar products. I am officially very excited for this one.

1. It’s the end of the financial year, and that means tax return time!

2. Gran Turismo 5, the game that tipped me over the edge to buy a PS3 over an Xbox 360.

3. WWDC. With luck, we’ll be told the release date of the new OS X operating system, Snow Leopard, and a new iPhone will be launched.

4. Ghostbusters on Blu-ray!

More reasons as they come to me.

This is all your fault, JONATHAN POH!

Expect a call from my lawyers!

…okay, so I tripped over the Singstar mic lead by myself, but I wouldn’t have been playing it if YOU hadn’t suggested that you’d get more trophies than me!

Great article interviewing the original BG team here.

If this series had continued, I suspect I would still be gaming on the PC.

As a beta tester, let me tell you, Home is a disaster of monumental proportions. Imagine the least fun online experience imaginable. You’re thinking of Second Life, right?

Okay, now take that thought and improve the graphics, but give your players nothing to do whatsoever. Also, if there could be lots of loading in between areas, that would be awesome.

The people at Microsoft’s Xbox division must be crying with laughter when they think about Sony’s online ’strategy’.

Yes, we can.

I’ve been holding off on buying Fallout 3 for several reasons but mostly because I’m still getting my head above water financially (but I’m doing a lot better now, honest!).

The second-highest in the list of reasons is the general consensus that the PS3 version of the game is somewhat broken in comparison to the Xbox 360 and PC versions. I don’t have a 360, and I really can’t see myself sitting in front of a computer for 100 hours of gaming, so I’ll wait for a patch.

I have a good reason to wait for that patch now. If I buy the game and start playing without trophy support, I’ll have to restart the game when they patch it in.

Watch this video all the way through, and imagine… imagine… building this by hand.