Split-Screen :: The Game-Geek’s Daily Read

It’s been a good year for gamers here in India, and gaming in general saw a really exciting year in 2007. The number of top line games which came out in the last few months of 2007 is staggering, mind numbing, incredible, and other such words too. So much so in fact that I’m still working my way through the lineup.

In India and around the world, we also seem to have entered into a console age. Sure, for the hardcore gamer the PC still offers some things which a console can’t if only because we have this great big keyboard with oh so many keys on it in front of us, but lets face it - a console just makes things so much easier. Power up, insert disc, and play. The greater accessibility, combined with the hardsell marketing which has now started to take place here in India has made the console the new and highly visible face of gaming, and take it from being a kids toy and made it a part of any household. Bright and shiny PS3s and 360s are making their rounds here like in other parts of the world, and video games are suddenly a lot less niche.

And so now there’s also a lot of sites from India which are giving you news about video games, and then there’s also sites like well… Zapak, which offer a lot of flash games to play and advertise heavily in India. Both are good things, I think. Though, Zapak… seriously, the latest round of ads need work. I’d like to say that I’m here to give you news about games too, but you can get that anywhere, and with more inside sources at that, so unless someone hands me a real scoop I’m not bothering with it. On the other hand, I’ve been playing video games since I first got a computer. I’m not quite the pong generation, but thinking of the original Prince of Persia still gets me all misty eyed. And I like talking about video games. A lot. And I’ve found that there’s a lot of people around me who’re like that too.

So over here I’m gonna talk about video games, and joke about video games, and occasionally perhaps even try and analyse video game. If you like video games and would like to do any of those things too, just email me, hell, I’ll even pay you for it! And meanwhile lets talk about video games.