The Good The Bad The Ugly - Xbox One

Welcome to the inauguration of a new format here at Crash To Desktop. With The Good The Bad and The Ugly we will bring you a weekly review of the latest in gaming and tech, introducing you to the great and the downright rotten.

Firstly let me say I love my Xbox 360, not the PS3 and I will most probably own an Xbox One within a year or two of launch. I will, however, be buying a PS4 on the launch day and will be signing up for a pre-order after E3.

I’ll admit, I have not been playing many games recently and I did not watch the Xbox One announcement live. I have watched the full video and honestly I'm feeling very underwhelmed by the whole announcement.

Thats not to say that I am not interested in the console.

Gaming Under Ceej: Is DLC The Future Of Gaming Or A Shady Scam?

I’m not going to lie. I do like the idea that I can purchase video games without ever having to put my trousers on. But, then, it is rather obscene to sell DLC over the internet, which is why I just show up at GameStop, naked as the day I was born. I’ve gotten a few complaints for that, but a lot of phone numbers. Skyler, I’m not avoiding you. I lost your number. My naked body doesn’t have pockets.

There’s a funny thing about DLC. Its lifespan is limited by the whim of the developers. If I go to the store and buy Batman: Arkham City on disc, I have that game forever. Short of forcing their way into my home and taking it by force, the developers can never stop me from playing it. If I made copies and modded my system, I’m even protected from that. Though, to be fair, if they’re already going as far as I have them doing in this incredibly ridiculous scenario, I don’t see why they wouldn’t take the extra effort to destroy every copy and my system.

However, if I decide to purchase the game from the internet instead, I still get the unlimited play time, but only in theory. I mean, if my system spontaneously bursts into flames, as today’s generation consoles have been known to do (why did you think the colloquialisms for these errors always end in “of death”?), I’d be allowed to download it again at no additional charge...

Season's greetings

Season's greetings from CTD, we hope you have a wonderful festive season this year.

We will be back in the new year, with new content and material from Kremlik, Fatal Impurity and Raksha; as well as some possible new faces.

Happy holidays, happier gaming.

Ratchet and Clank HD Trilogy Delayed

Adding to the stack of HD remakes, Insomniac's Ratchet and Clank is due for it's first trilogy of games to be published on the PS3.

Sadly EU players will be waiting a little longer as over Twitter, Insomniac have just announced that the game will be pushed back till June, no reason or date has officially been given so far, despite the fact the date was accidently leaked back in March.

Ah well I guess it's time to break out the PS2 again...

Interview with Trendy Entertainment's Philip Asher

A few weeks ago I had the glorious opportunity, to interview Trendy Entertainments very own Marketing Director Philip Asher. Trendy Entertainment, as you probably know are the masterminds behind the Tower Defence/Action RPG mash up Dungeon Defenders. During the interview we covered not only Trendy's stance on their DLC marketing, but developing and balancing the ever expanding content.

So for those of you who saunter around with your level 70 mage, destroying wave after wave of orcs, prepare for the inside scoop on this years most exciting Tower Defense title.

Enjoy.

3DS receives free wifi in EU

And soon... THE WORLD! (Maybe, I dunno)

As of the last week, 3DS owners can connect wirelessly through over 25,000 Wi-fi zones all over the EU.

In this unprecedented action, there's no really no excuse not to connect online and kick your friend's butts on games such as Mario Kart 7 or Pokemon Rumble Blast!

Granted, you still need to locate your nearest hotspot in order to do so, which is possible through

the Nintendo Hotspot Finder, Nintendo has endeavoured to place the majority of these hotspots in airports, coffee shops, fast food outlets and various other places of business.

Although there have been complaints online about the latency experienced on these new hotspots, it's early days yet. So hopefully we can expect lower latencies with subsequent firmware updates and growing router support for the 3DS' WiFi.

Ubisoft Announce Anno 2070 Expansion Pack - Deep Ocean

On Monday Ubisoft announced a new expansion pack for their 2011 Real-Time-Strategy game Anno 2070. The expansion is titled "Deep Ocean" which aims to expand the underwater construction features of the main game much deeper (place your Inception memes here).

Some of the more notable features include being able to acquire territory without using military force, underwater globalthermal nuclear power plants and a new "Tsunami" disaster. If you want to read about the rest of the features you can head on over to the German Ubisoft forums.

The release for the Deep Ocean expansion pack is set for Autumn, 2012.