The video game battle has raged on for over 20 years with more and more casualties announced each generation. This time round, who will win the fight?

360 Man

In his former incarnation as just plain old ‘XBox Man’, 360 Man took his time and used his big weapon: connection infrastructures, to plan the perfect moment to enter the console wars. With Master Chief at his side and guns blazing, 360 Man is the current kingpin of all the heroes.

Strengths:

Truly KILLER Apps (including a substantial advantage over PS3 Mecca with his recruitment of third parties), and with the devastating power of the MS network he can summon his many followers (in a non-cultish way of course).

Weaknesses:

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Wii Tennis, Wii Bowling, Wii bloody Golf…how about some variety, Nintendo? Below are a bunch of obscure sports that, to my knowledge, have not yet been made into mainstream video games. But chances are we have all heard of these sports at least and given that the Wii is looking to cater for the family/non-gamer demographic, these activities deserve a chance too. Mr Miyamoto, if you want to mail me a royalty cheque just send me a PM. Credit to Andrew Carmichael who gave me the idea for this blog.

Hardcore Euro limbs-flailing-about Action

European Handball

No, not the handball you used to play in primary school by ‘slogging’ a tennis ball. This is one of the great obscure sports that is… Read More