3DS vs NGP (Specs) - Will Sony win Round 2?

Today Sony officially announced the successor to the PSP. It is being referred to by the codename “NGP”, which stands for “Next Generation Portable”. The usage of a codename for the product is nothing new, for example think of Kinect’s original codename, “Natal”.

As it stands, there are currently only two major portable dedicated gaming consoles: Sony’s PSP and the Nintendo DS. So the question is, “How do they compare?”

Gaming Setup: My First Living Room

The holiday period is over. For most people, that means that the time to relax and take stock of their home, friends, and family is over too. Not the case for me. I spent the 2010 holiday season moving to my first place.

Which means that now that the season is over, I finally get chance to relax and enjoy it. As you can imagine, for a geek like me the best part of getting my first place was s putting together my gaming setup. If the readers of this care about anything I write (and they probably don’t) they will like to see my gaming setup.

But it doesn't stop here.

Should I Buy an Xbox or a PS3:Tales of a 360 Owner

I am a self-confessed 360 fan boy. It has not always been this way, I was a Playstation man up until this generation. But with the delays to the Playstation 3, and the steep asking price, I ended up spending a respectable £300 on a shiny new Xbox 360. Since then, I’ve never looked back. But I always wondered, what would have happened if I had waited, saved, and gone the Sony route?

 

PS360

 Well, thinking along these lines inspired me to ask fellow Gamer, Geek, and TDard Mark “Breener96” Breen about his recent acquisition of a 360. Up until Christmas 2010, Mark has been a Playstation 3 gamer, and I was interested too hear about his journey across the gaming bridge.

Street Fighter IV: A Cry for Help

Calling anyone bored enough to be reading this blog: I need your help! Recently I’ve been sliding deeper and deeper into an addiction to Street Fighter IV. On iPhone.

Seriously, almost every time I pull my phone out these days I almost instinctively open my “Gamz” folder (thank you iOS4) and tap on the image of Ryu’s determined looking squint. But I don’t need your help with my addiction, the problem comes with how I’m playing the game. Heres the thing: I only ever play as Ryu. And even I know that that is just dumb.

I refuse to buy Super Street Fighter IV until I start playing this game properly!

Matt Cundys Cameo on the Inbetweeners

Watching Channel 4's teen sitcom "The Inbetweeners" today, I spotted an amusing link to Gamesradar's Matt Cundy...

TDard Saturday – Jump on board!

For quite a while now, listeners to the weekly gaming Podcast TalkRadar have had a weekly play-session, when gamers can jump onto a current or popular video game and play online together. It’s a great way for members of the community to interact, and if you are a new member of the TalkRadar or GamesRadar community then I highly recommend joining in.

Credit: Batman5273

The Week of Blog Posts

As you may have noticed, Only Logical has been fairly devoid of posts over the past three weeks or so. OK, so you didn’t notice. Well anyway, it has been.

Space & Games, hand-in-glove. 

I have been busy moving house and kicking ass, but now that January (and the depression that goes along with it) has arrived, it’s high time I got back to shouting at the staggering 4+ readers of this blog about games and space. Not at the same time, though, unless we are talking about Mass Effect.

So this week, I’m going to try to commit to a post every day. Topics covered will include:

·         Super Street Fighter IV – Cry For Help
·         Gaming Setups

·         Tdard Saturday

·         Xbox 720/PS4 Excitement

·         Tales of a 360 Owner

·         When Astrophysics Goes Right

So, I guess you’ll probably read all of them apart from the last one. Well if that’s the case, shame on you. The last one will be the best, I guarantee it.

Motivational Game Music: MoWaDuece

Nope, this won’t be a regular thing. I just wanted to throw up a link to this video in a place that I can easily find at any time. I was going to simply ‘favourite’ the video on YouTube, but then I thought “what the heck, a few of my friends like this song too so I’ll put it somewhere public.” Plus, It’s been a while since the last post here.

The song is by Hans Zimmer, and is called “Going Loud”. You will remember it from the Modern Warfare 2; it plays both during the epic Gulag mission, and at the beginning of certain online game modes.

It certainly lives up to its name, never fails to get the adrenaline flowing. TARGET NEUTRALISED!!