Michael "Mixel" Dawes

Michael "Mixel" Dawes

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Gaming since the 8bit days on the BBC Micro, through Commodore Amiga and now console/PC/iOS. A big horror fan who spends his time drawing, running a webcomic, doing indie game design and enjoying his awesome family.

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The Changing Face Of Online Console Gaming (Part 1)

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3 weeks ago
by Michael "Mixel" Dawes in

New hardware always brings big changes to the online gaming experience. Usually these are positive and expansive, and that doesn’t look to be any different this incoming generation. Microsoft achieved a lot with Xbox Live in the early years and really set the industry target. One could argue both Steam and the PSN compete well or surpass XBL for value or feature reasons now, but that’s all about to become moot as the landscape reforms.

What changes are we likely to see?

XBox Live has had its share of advantages; cross game chat, and the fact that a mic comes with the Xbox360 itself makes the More >

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Xbox One – Another Reaction

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4 weeks ago
by Michael "Mixel" Dawes in

If nothing else – this is a damn nice looking controller!

Tues 21st May. Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One – successor to one of the most popular consoles of all time. As someone who buys consoles largely to play games, and has a media center PC (and current gen consoles) already rigged up to the living room TV – the event was a huge disappointment. E3 is just weeks away, so MS are obviously waiting to show games – but they had a captive audience here, and could have done anything to make the gaming press happy. What we saw instead was MS positioning Xbox One as an entertainment device first More >

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Weekly Roundup 2: EA and Micro-transactions

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3 months ago
by Michael "Mixel" Dawes in , ,

Another video editorial, this time on EA’s comment that they’ll include micro-payments in all games in the future. I also mention a couple of recent games and ramble about DLC and (what I consider to be) improper implementation of marketplace features.

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Weekly Roundup: My thoughts on the PS4 event!

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3 months ago
by Michael "Mixel" Dawes in , ,

My first weekly roundup, covering the PS4 launch (vaguely, I have a more in depth video in progress), and what I’ve been playing.

Worst green-screen ever! I’m working on that though.

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The PS4 event: what was missing?

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3 months ago
by Michael "Mixel" Dawes in

So Sony finally gave us the info-dump we’ve been clamouring for and the tech press is going over the details with a fine toothed comb hoping for a clearer picture of what the PS4 means for gaming.

There are hundreds of articles about what Sony showed, but I thought I’d go the other way and write about all the things they didn’t show.

1) The Console

This has upset people more than anything else, but really, what does it matter? By not showing it they’re guaranteed hundreds more crazy mockups by artists and 3d modellers, and the hype that goes along with that. I’d put money on the design being More >

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