It’s fair to say that last year’s Wii U reveal at E3 2011 was met with much confusion and, subsequently, a fairly lukewarm reaction. The whole thing, with its touchscreen controller, smacked of gimmickry – nothing more than another play for the casual audience – and the...

Our neighborhood is just what we were after. It’s perhaps not as cultured as, say, the Capitol Hill area, but it does mean we’re away from the constant hustle and bustle, which is often nice to escape from. Besides, we have friends who live in Capitol Hill, so we’ll likely...

Jen and I moved into our new home yesterday – an apartment in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood. And the actual move itself forced me to do something I wasn’t expecting to do at this early stage of my new life in America: drive on the right-hand side of the road. You see, Jen...

Shortly before Jen and I left her family in Vegas to officially move to Seattle, I headed to San Francisco and Los Angeles to cover Sony’s pre-E3 events for New Zealand media. On the first day, I (and a bunch of other journalists from Australia and Europe) headed out to Foster City...

Well, I’m writing this from Seattle right now – we’re finally in our new home! We’ve spent the last couple of days applying for jobs and apartment hunting. Jen’s got a job interview lined up for this weekend already, and it looks like we may have found a nice,...