The Silent Hill HD Collection

Primarily SPOnG exists to provide a reference to gamers everywhere. However, we also offer a number of professional services to gamers, games retailers and software publishers, these include:

Used globally by retailers, distributors and insurance companies, SPOnG is the market leader in providing quality information your customers need about the games they want to buy.

Take a moment to peruse the titles listed in the current charts and, from our publicly available database, the depth and richness of SPOnG's data is immediately evident; packaging and in-game screens , age ratings , release dates , genre classification, accessories and summary .

To bolster the publicly available content, SPOnG's video games data feed delivery service ties the all important barcode to the relevant box shot / packaging , publisher and release date , along with the RRP and release type (Initial Release, Platinum, Player's Choice, etc.), providing single, coherent SKU for each game released - all provided in a single package that's easy to import into your online store or back-office system.

The uses don't just stop at online retail; without SPOnG's games content the identification and selection of products would be a lengthy process for the many non-specialist and temporary staff employed by our clients in the insurance, warehouse and distribution sectors.

If you want to know more about our unrivaled content delivery and how it will generate sales while saving you money, get in touch .

Our XML DTD for video games content is available at: http://spong.com/dtd/export/games-v2_2.dtd

SPOnG is in daily contact with all the major players within the computer games industry. As a result, we can supply daily or weekly games news content, be it a standard news-feed, or bespoke content specifically aimed at your target audience.

Our XML DTD for news is available at: http://spong.com/dtd/export/gamesnews-v1_0.dtd

SPOnG's sister company, eleventeenth , is the Internet development company behind the streamlined stock and sales tracking system used by Activision, Electronic Arts, Konami, Midway, Take2, Ubisoft and Vivendi, along with technical solutions for Aardvark Swift, Q8 Aviation and DHL Worldwide Express's award-winning WAP services.

Game Review: Silent Hill Shattered Memories « OMGJeremy

Game Review: Silent Hill Shattered Memories

I finally managed to play through Silent Hill: Shattered Memories a while back. Being a huge SH fan over the years, this one really put me off initially. I’m not a fan of Wiimote waggling at all, and it seemed like this new SH was about to take it to all new pants-shitting levels of annoyance. And while I wasn’t entirely wrong with that initial assessment, I’m glad I finally took the time to play through it. Overall it's probably one of the more unique games you'll play regardless of all the frustration you may have with it. It's such a strange game in overall concept that it will probably take a few days of going over it in your head after you've beaten it to really rein in the things you saw and did in a way that will make sense. And even then, there's going to be a hazy cloud of uncertainty sitting around. This is a good thing, BTW. Just in case you were wondering. Well, except the waggling.

Ignoring the gameplay, the plot is easily as intricate as Silent Hill 2's, but not immediately so. It's not until you beat the game does everything you just played fall apart and rebuild itself in a way that makes some sort of sense. And even then, you'll need the help of a good plot synopsis to put the remaining pieces of the puzzles together. There are some deep, deep things going on in Shattered Memories. Taken at face value, those things resonate hard with people who have dealt with them. Dig deeper, and it gets even more disgusting in that “I should probably take a shower now” way. This is layered storytelling as good as it gets in gaming, made even more surprising that the guys at Climax, and not the original team is responsible for it. But first, let’s get the bad stuff out of the way, which is basically every other part of the game besides the storytelling.

Shattered Gameplay and Graphics

What isn't so surprising is that the gameplay is pretty awful at best. While Climax brought it hard with the plot, the gameplay falls off a cliff at points. Most of the time, you'll be running around Silent Hill exploring the town, which is generally fine. Then about halfway through, you discover that what you can explore is on such a linear path that it makes it almost worthless to search for nooks and crannies. There are collectibles to find, but I stopped caring about them fairly quickly since nothing about the environments made me want to explore them. Why should I sit and fight with King Wagglemote when a great piece of storytelling is just beyond that gate over there? I suggest you do the same.

GameAxis Unwired

Silent Hill: Homecoming

Silent Hill 4: The Room Official Strategy Guide

Horror video games, essays on the fusion of fear and play

CMJ New Music Monthly