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FIDGIT ARCHIVE FOR July 2008
I'm always happy to talk to strangers about games. It makes up for the fact that I can't talk to strangers about sports. I wouldn't have any idea what to say if someone sidled up to me and said, 'How...
POSTED Thursday, July 31, 2008
It looks like a lot of locations will be reused over the course of the game. A location you visited with one character will be played through later by at least one other character. On one hand, this feels a...
POSTED Thursday, July 31, 2008
In case you were worried that Electronic Arts hadn't learned anything from its ongoing attempts to balkanize The Sims 2 with eight expansion packs, nine "stuff" packs, and online micropayments for meaningless shreds of content, fret no more! They have...
POSTED Thursday, July 31, 2008
The drawback of going mainstream is that the Today Show talks about you. They did a short segment on Rock Band 2, which for some reason included talking to a dude who said, "[Rock Band] came out Thanksgiving 2007 and...
POSTED Thursday, July 31, 2008
Scrabble clone Scrabulous, one of the most popular applications on Facebook, shut down service in North America. Now the official version of Scrabble is the only way to match vocabularies with your friends on Facebook. This appears to be the...
POSTED Thursday, July 31, 2008
Okay, so come on, this is the graphics engine? Really? Because so far, it's not doing anything special. In an outdoor area – directly repeated from the original Siren, by the way – the fogging is terrible, as if the...
POSTED Wednesday, July 30, 2008
On October 12, Richard Garriott will be the sixth private citizen into space. The creator of the Ultima series whose known ingame as Lord British is one of the founders of Space Adventures Ltd., which will send him on a...
POSTED Wednesday, July 30, 2008
In an interview with IGN, Naughty Dog rep Arne Meyer explained that the upcoming trophy patch for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune will add 47 trophies, plus a 48th for getting all the trophies. Coincidentally, 47 is the exact number of "medals"...
POSTED Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Oh dear. Gas Powered Games has set loose a demo for their upcoming sci-fi action RPG. Space Siege, so named because it's a follow-up to Dungeon Siege and not because it has anything to do with the unlikely activity of...
POSTED Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Downloading and installing each episode is a bit of a pain, particularly since the game is sold in three chunks, but installed in 12. I guess this is a way around the fact that you're basically downloading a 10GB game...
POSTED Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Everyone calm down for a second. Just calm down and listen. As you know, the USS Activision has collided with the HMS Vivendi. Tough break, but we're making arrangements to transfer several passengers to the more viable Activision. If I...
POSTED Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Variety's '08 Impact series details the most, well, impactful folks in the world of videogaming. You know some of them: Miyamoto, Will Wright, Ken Levine. But what about Martin Zerogsek, Jamil Moledina, Sandi Isaacs, and Eunice Dinwiddle-Tutweiler (I made one...
POSTED Tuesday, July 29, 2008
If it's a) animated, b) funny, and c) needs a game made out it, Telltale Games seem to be the go-to guys these days. First came their episodic follow-ups to the classic Sam & Max adventure games, then a couple...
POSTED Tuesday, July 29, 2008
You can download the Too Human demo from Xbox Live Marketplace for free to get a taste of the upcoming action RPG. Although the demo only let you play one of the game's five character classes when it was initially...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
Swooping in from the future comes an article on Rolling Stone dated August 7, 2008, detailing the impact of games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band on the music industry. Consider this: The new Guitar Hero: Aerosmith ... sold over...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
Siren: Blood Curse was supposed to be released in 12 episodes available for download over a period of time, similar to a season for a TV show. With its splintered narrative and multiple characters, this would have been ideal for...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
On Saturday morning at 9am, 22-year-old Sean Feica in Ontario, Canada started up Rock Band and drummed through "29 Fingers" by The Konks on the expert difficulty level. It was the beginning of what he called The Drum Day From...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
This week is the usual whole lot of summer nothin', with the exception of Soul Calibur IV. Since many folks might not know a Soul Calibur from a Soul Reaver or a Soul Nomad, I've assembled the relevant bullet points...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
Star Trek Online hasn't had an easy time of it. The game was in development at Perpetual Entertainment, a company also working on a promising Roman mythology-themed MMO called Gods & Heroes. After a round of layoffs, Gods & Heroes...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
In the wake of this year's kinder, gentler, less crowded E3, a couple of game executives are showing off their more poetic sides. Simon Jeffrey, president of Sega of America, has a way with metaphor: "[It was] an event that...
POSTED Friday, July 25, 2008
The Wrath of the Lich King expansion for World of Warcraft recently went into a more open beta testing phase, giving a select few fans a look at the new stuff. Naturally, these excited fans take screenshots, write up impressions,...
POSTED Friday, July 25, 2008
A Gears of War movie just got one step closer to being a sure thing. It's one thing to have a script floating around (first by Pirates of the Caribbean writer Stuart Beattie and now by Wanted writer Chris Morgan);...
POSTED Friday, July 25, 2008
Hey, look, it's a beta patch for Sins of a Solar Empire, the sublimely beautiful, slickly manageable, and strangely-titled sci-fi real time strategy game. Check out that screenshot up there. I made that. That's my Reliance Battlecruiser -- I named...
POSTED Friday, July 25, 2008
While you're waiting on Siren: Blood Curse to download (I'm just shy of the half-way point for the roughly 10 gigabyte download), here's the latest on Fatal Frame IV, a.k.a. the sequel to Fatal Frame III, a.k.a. the best horror...
POSTED Thursday, July 24, 2008
Funny [sic] videogaming video shows are a dime a dozen, which is a reference not just to their ubiquity but their approximate value. And that's being generous. But wade through enough of them, and sooner or later you'll find something...
POSTED Thursday, July 24, 2008
Book 14 is out for Lord of the Rings Online, adding the chapter that sees the Fellowship leaving Rivendell and plunging past "Beware of Balrog" signs towards Moria, where they'll take us later this year. As usual, there's no charge...
POSTED Thursday, July 24, 2008
I knew I recognized that font! My Weight Loss Coach is part of a series, along with My Word Coach, My French Coach (Oh la la!), and My Spanish Coach (Hey, pendejos!), all for the Nintendo DS. And, believe it...
POSTED Thursday, July 24, 2008
I learned two things today: 1) Games are tested for how likely they are to induce epileptic seizures, and 2) Wipeout is supposed to be written like so: wipEout. The Wipeout games do enough damage to the laws of physics....
POSTED Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Microsoft has announced its first round of original programming for Xbox Live. According to the Hollywood Reporter, a series of comedy shorts, each under 10 minutes, will be created by a half-dozen directors known for horror movies. It sounds like...
POSTED Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Although it wasn't mentioned at E3, Capcom just announced that it's developing a Dead Rising game for the Nintendo Wii and the people who play it. Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop will be out this winter. "Chop Till You...
POSTED Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Microsoft issued a great big "never mind" for Games for Windows Live. You know Games for Windows Live, right? You probably installed it when you played Universe at War on your PC. You didn't play that one? Okay, how about...
POSTED Wednesday, July 23, 2008
A local ABC affiliate in Maryland conducted a sting operation to see if minors are being sold M-rated videogames from five national retailers. They recruited Aaron Fink (no jokes about his name, please), the 15-year-old son of one of their...
POSTED Wednesday, July 23, 2008
95% of E3 coverage is the same old stuff. Read a dozen write-ups of the same ten-minute demo and each one will list the same three or four bullet points (guilty as charged!). That's how E3 works. But every now...
POSTED Tuesday, July 22, 2008
After fifteen years of seeing game demos and then the actual games that result, I can't help but be jaded a little wiser. I've learned to translate key phrases on the fly. I've figured out how to read between the...
POSTED Tuesday, July 22, 2008
2K Games producer Alyssa Finley detailed some of the trophies for the Playstation 3 version of BioShock. Which might have been exciting if every single trophy she detailed wasn't just a duplication of an Xbox 360 achievement. 2K didn’t even...
POSTED Tuesday, July 22, 2008
I'm not sure if zombies without opposable thumbs are more scary or less scary. The question is raised by Valve's box art for their upcoming zombie-shooter. On one hand, missing extremities are pretty gross. On the other hand, zombies without...
POSTED Tuesday, July 22, 2008
I can't help but feel sorry for Konami and Rock Revolution. Konami pioneered peripheral-based music games with their Dance Dance Revolution series and dancepads. But then along come the young upstarts at Harmonix with their plastic guitars and their drum...
POSTED Monday, July 21, 2008
You know those cool timelines in front of books about World War III usually written by Tom Clancy? You also get them in front of a lot of sci-fi game manuals, tracing the development of hyper-drive, then first contact, then...
POSTED Monday, July 21, 2008
If you were away over the weekend, you missed our tsunami of E3 coverage. Rather than scrolling down through it all, you can just click on the E3 category in the section list to the left. Then just peruse the...
POSTED Monday, July 21, 2008
In Parenting magazine's list of six ways to be a great parent, the first way is to play videogames. Yes! Fist pump! I think we can all get behind this one. The author of the article talks to a Cincinnati...
POSTED Monday, July 21, 2008
Save your money while you can. Once the end of August rolls around, you might need a second job to sustain you through the holidays. In the meantime, enjoy minimal to non-existent wallet threat levels. This week, for instance, the...
POSTED Monday, July 21, 2008
What: "Entrencher" isn't a very sexy name for a weapon. It's barely a step up from "shovel". But you should see the entrencher in action. It morphs the terrain, letting you dig holes or raise hills during battle. In other...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What:There's no continuity here with the first Far Cry, at least as far as I can tell. It's as if Ubisoft inherited the name, so by gum, they're going to use it! This re-boot lets you play as a mercenary...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What:A near-future real time strategy game played on a console and controlled mostly by voice. Command your units with a basic grammar system of "unit ordered", "action", and then "target". For instance, saying, "Unit one capture Alpha" into the mic...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: Everyone's killed zombies. But how about telepathically jumping into their heads and then sneaking past them? Of course, you can still kill them if you'd rather do it that way. The original Siren's unique "sightjacking" gimmick was often infuriatingly...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What:Sony's MotorStorm racing series leaves the barren desert of Monument Valley for a tropical Pacific island clogged with vegetation. Joining the wheeled rumpus are monster trucks capable of simply driving over small vehicles. Play the less linear festival mode, capture...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: Steer to wind to pick up flower petals to unlock new areas in which to steer the wind. Who: Thatgamecompany is the studio founded by Jenova Chen, the guy who did Cloud and flOw. Where: Playstation 3, via the...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: If you had a hammer in a videogame, you probably wouldn't use it to build stuff. So the next step in shooters is better fidelity when it comes to breaking stuff. Battlefield Bad Company, for instance, boasts breakable walls,...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: A real time strategy game based on the Warhammer 40,000AD license that inspired Starcraft. But this sequel trims a lot of the typical RTS gameplay in favor of a more RPG and action feel: no base building, no economy,...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: A sweet new Stratocaster (pictured); new drum kits with metal pedals and softer pads for quieter drumming; new World Tour mode that's less linear with dynamically generated "challenges"; complete backwards compatibility with Rock Band 1's downloadable songs, as well...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: Did you play Creative Assembly's nifty Viking game? Because this looks like a more polished version of that. You play Jason looking for the Golden Fleece. Choose which of four gods you're going to favor during NPC interaction (each...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: It's the world of Halo seen from above and played as a real time strategy game. "God powers" are brought down from capital ships in orbit and bases are built on pre-set nodes on the map. There are two...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: The obvious inspiration for this horror game in spaaaaaaaace is System Shock. You're a miner named Isaac Clarke (was "Clive King" taken?), alone in the vacuum on a ship overrun by, uh, a "necromorph". To their credit, EA is...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: Please. Have you been living in a cave without an internet connection or something? Who: Electronic Arts' Maxis division Where: PC gaming is alive and well and about to make a lot of money for Electronic Arts. There's also...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: With swaying trees, lovely buildings, and streets full of traffic, Venezuela is looking good in Mercenaries 2, an open-world sandbox of destruction that gives you guns a-plenty, over 100 vehicles, a half-dozen air strikes, and even a tactical nuke....
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: If there's one thing better than a commando, it's a bionic one. This update of an ancient Nintendo 2D platformer lets you play a dude with a bad-ass bionic arm that gives him super strength. The arm also has...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: Taking a cue from the stylized look of the upcoming Clone Wars movie and television series, this fighting game has ten classic and new Star Wars characters pairing off and drawing lightsabers. Swing the Wiimote horizontally, swing it vertically,...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: The classic survival horror series goes to Africa to investigate the origin of the virus that infected people in the last game. You can play through the game online with a co-operative multiplayer system that lets other people join...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: This sequel to the Playstation 3's alien invasion shooter looks like it'll be much closer to the Halo-killer Sony must have originally hoped for (the first Resistance game was barely even a Medal of Honor-killer). The battle comes home...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: While the larger Playstation 3 version of Resistance heads to America, this handheld version hangs back in England. A new no-frills auto-targeting and cover system make it easier to gun down aliens on the PSP. And new weapons and...
POSTED Saturday, July 19, 2008
What: A team-based capture-the-flag online game, played from an overhead view of cute little people who get cut up into bloody bits. Choose your class by picking up different hats to play the warrior, the wizard, the builder, the priest,...
POSTED Friday, July 18, 2008
What: This shooter has a vaguely pulp 50s serial sci-fi look to it, a la The Rocketeer. The gameplay goes vertical courtesy of the main character's rocket pack, a propulsion system with serious kick that he uses to leapfrog up...
POSTED Friday, July 18, 2008
What: A superhero-themed MMO based on the pen-and-paper RPG by Hero Games Who: Cryptic Studios knows their superhero-themed MMOs. These are the guys who made City of Heroes and City of Villains, so they've already wrestled with tough issues like...
POSTED Friday, July 18, 2008
I didn't get to see this game, but I love that screenshot. It's as if a drunk girl just accosted Superman and told him a bad joke about DC characters appearing in a Mortal Kombat game. The Man of Steel...
POSTED Friday, July 18, 2008
What: A set of addictive time-based puzzles where a lithe little 2D man gets to an exit, carrying over his unspent time to the next level. Half of these levels are old, half are all new. For the twist, see...
POSTED Friday, July 18, 2008
What: This total conversion of Civilization IV (a "total conversion" is a mod that requires an extra lot of work) is a remake of the cult-hit strategy game (a "cult-hit" is something not many people played, but they each loved...
POSTED Friday, July 18, 2008
What: A re-release of last year's RPG, but this time with a better inventory interface, some re-recorded dialogue with presumably better voice actors, and NPCs with randomized parts so you're not adventuring in a world of clones. You'll get all...
POSTED Friday, July 18, 2008
What: A racing sim that, uh, doesn’t look too hot. But that's okay, because it's not built for eye candy. Race Pro are serious sim for serious drivers. Who: SimBin are the folks who've made the top-notch no-foolin'-around GTR sims....
POSTED Friday, July 18, 2008
One moment it's Monday morning. The next moment, after a brief blur of game demos and announcements, it's Thursday evening. E3 2008 is over. Although it went by awfully fast, this was easily the most manageable E3 I've ever attended,...
POSTED Thursday, July 17, 2008
What: First person Parkour in a cheery Utopia gone just slightly wrong. But never mind the backstory. The idea is to get to the exit of each level as quickly -- and therefore as smoothly – as possible. So really,...
POSTED Thursday, July 17, 2008
What: "We're doing all the same things you see in other tennis games," I was proudly told. This was shortly after a rather confused explanation for why this is really only the second game in the series. Who: Namco-Bandai is...
POSTED Thursday, July 17, 2008
Our sister news site, Sci Fi Wire, has coverage of Konami's Silent Hill (picture above, and really rather gross, isn't it?) and Castlevania announcements. They also wrote up a visit with Sega to look at Bayonetta, Mad World, and Stormrise;...
POSTED Thursday, July 17, 2008
What: Hunt deer and other critters, but this time with multiplayer. Compete in leaderboard style challenges and even play co-op with a bunch of other hunters. Please remember to hunt responsibly and not drink too much. Oh, wait, this is...
POSTED Thursday, July 17, 2008
What: A turn-based monster-building/fighting game where you create your own monsters and use them to roam around regional maps to find more parts to build better monsters. Wii minigames are used to determine the quality of your R&D. Who: This...
POSTED Wednesday, July 16, 2008
What: The next Lara Croft game, presumably striking a balance between the action of Tomb Raider: Legend and the puzzle solving of Tomb Raider: Anniversary. Who: This will be Crystal Dynamics' third Tomb Raider game. Where: Nintendo DS, PC, Playstation...
POSTED Wednesday, July 16, 2008
What: Don't be fooled by the fact that this is based on the curiously irrelevant license for an ancient Sega Genesis game; this is a full-blown modern RPG with turn-based tactical combat, addictive army management, demons in a box, queen...
POSTED Wednesday, July 16, 2008
What: A direct port of the basic SimCity gameplay, but with Wii-friendly features like curving roads, Wii-mote driven disasters, and tilt-steered aircraft tours of your own city, as well as unlockable hero buildings that affect the way your city grows...
POSTED Wednesday, July 16, 2008
What: The latest real time strategy game in the whimsical time travel alternate history of the Red Alert universe, this time with crazy Japanese robots among the Soviets and the Allies, and with every map a naval map Who: Electronic...
POSTED Wednesday, July 16, 2008
What: A Lord of the Rings-themed version of the Star Wars: Battelfront games, featuring battles from the books and movies; playable heroes like Aragorn, Wormtongue, and Treebeard (yes, playable Treebeard); and plenty of bots and battles for single-player and multiplayer...
POSTED Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Final Fantasy XIII, pictured above taking aim at Xbox 360 owners, will not be exclusive to the Playstation 3, much to the dismay of people who love Final Fantasy and Playstation and hate to see them break up so Final...
POSTED Monday, July 14, 2008
The campaign is over and I'm happy to announce that Barack Obama is the next President of the United States of Tom's Game of Political Machine. It wasn't even close. Obama won every single state that was closely contested. Ohio...
POSTED Monday, July 14, 2008
Welcome to hell. I mean the week of E3. Welcome to the week of E3. I confuse them sometimes. This week, Fidgit's updates will be spotty, because our entire staff – and I mean every last one of us –...
POSTED Monday, July 14, 2008
Dan Dixon used to work at Surreal Studios where he was a programmer for The Suffering, which graphically brought to life the horrors of prison. The sequel then graphically brought to life the horrors of Baltimore. In both cases, demons...
POSTED Sunday, July 13, 2008
Obama spends the last month of the campaign, October, continuing to court Texas. McCain runs around doing stupid pointless things like giving a speech in Florida proclaiming his support for more jobs. But McCain of all people should know that...
POSTED Sunday, July 13, 2008
I've just noticed that when I reload a game, a lot of the data is different from when I saved the game. The percentages in different states have changed. The issues no longer show whether they've risen or fallen in...
POSTED Saturday, July 12, 2008
When it comes to me saying embarrassingly adoring things about developer Tilted Mill, you'd think my comments about the Enhanced Edition of Children of the Nile would be enough for one week. But no! This week is a twofer, because...
POSTED Friday, July 11, 2008
It's rare that you have a series as successful as Grand Theft Auto from a developer as taciturn as Rockstar Games. The company isn't very media friendly, and the creators of the games rarely do interviews. So it's worth pointing...
POSTED Friday, July 11, 2008
Rather than continue to complain about the interface and the dirty cheating AI, this game diary entry is a good time to talk about some things Political Machine does right. Read the more upbeat comments, and details about the campaign...
POSTED Friday, July 11, 2008
Maybe you're bored with the current selection of PSP games. So you go online to see what's coming out. And you see that the new releases section for the PSP is a barren wasteland dotted with the detritus of occasional...
POSTED Friday, July 11, 2008
Apple's new iTunes App Store just went live. Among other things, now you can get games for the 3G iPhone you just got today. You did get one of the new iPhones, didn't you? I'm on way out now to...
POSTED Friday, July 11, 2008
After stalling out in Iowa, presumably because his campaign's negative $116,000 weekly balance drained the coffers so dry he couldn't even afford a plane ticket, it turns out that McCain is not out of the race. Instead, he's just playing...
POSTED Thursday, July 10, 2008
Tilted Mill, the pre-eminent (and pretty much only surviving) developer of city builders, just released an Enhanced Edition of Children of the Nile. This Ancient Egyptian-themed life-sim/city builder got mixed reviews for its non-conformity and languid pacing, but I found...
POSTED Thursday, July 10, 2008
Different countries have different standards for their videogames. Germans are sensitive to swastikas and red blood, for instance. Game makers have to swap in Iron Crosses and green blood. Us Americans are averse to the appearance of nipples. We tend...
POSTED Thursday, July 10, 2008
Here's something you don't see every day. The Codename Cagney update for Burnout Paradise is available today for the Playstation 3, beating out the Xbox 360 release by four days. Oops, scratch that. Apparently extra bugs were found in the...
POSTED Thursday, July 10, 2008
By the middle of June, I've got three intimidators knocking back McCain's awareness rating in states where he hasn't set up an election headquarters to counter their effect. I park two in Pennsylvania and one in North Carolina. With judicious...
POSTED Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Sometimes good things come out of corporations pulling together. Take, for instance, the recent collaboration between Electronic Arts, Yahoo, and Swedish fasionistas Hennes & Mauritz. First, Electronic Arts releases The Sims 2. Somewhere along the way, they team up with...
POSTED Wednesday, July 9, 2008
2K community manager Elizabeth Tobey announced that different retailers will offer different ingame bonuses to the copies of Civilization Revolution they sell. You can click the link for specifics, but to sum up: People who buy from Best Buy will...
POSTED Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Although it's slightly tardy, Sony's new virtual trophy system for the Playstation 3 is here. Trophies should have been part of last week's 2.40 firmware upgrade, which was also known as the "oops, never mind!" upgrade (it was quickly pulled...
POSTED Wednesday, July 9, 2008
By the end of May, the projected electoral votes have swung wildly out of my favor. McCain now leads Obama at 310 electoral votes to 228! Studying the map, it's obvious that I'm being outgamed on the electoral college. We're...
POSTED Tuesday, July 8, 2008
It's pretty disheartening to see Electronic Arts crassly monetizing The Sims. It's bad enough that there are so many overpriced expansion packs for The Sims 2, most of them not very good. But just in case you missed to opportunity...
POSTED Tuesday, July 8, 2008
I'm not saying I'm an achievement whore. I love the little challenges and rewards that come from playing a game on the Xbox 360, but frankly, I don't have the Gamerscore to qualify as an achievement whore. And I never...
POSTED Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Don't forget to wish your friends and family happy Bungie Day! Yeah, I know, I didn't realize Bungie got their own day either. That's what I get for not being regularly pwned by 14-year-olds in Halo 3. To help you...
POSTED Monday, July 7, 2008
"Ah, here's your problem. A car this is size is going to need at least an N64 controller." Thanks Best Pic Ever via Blue's News....
POSTED Monday, July 7, 2008
In the real world, the Republicans just spent $3 million to run ads in key battleground states claiming Obama supports higher gas prices and McCain supports the environment. In my Political Machine world, I just spent the week running ads...
POSTED Monday, July 7, 2008
Cooking Mama, noooo! Don't do it! We love you just the way you are, in your lovely little 2D with your giant head and your madly shining eyes and your cute little flat recipes. We don't need you to go...
POSTED Monday, July 7, 2008
The last big summer release until the late-August glut is this week. Civilization: Revolutions is the slick adaptation of Sid Meier's ingenious DIY history of the world series. You're faced with the tough choice of playing on a next-gen console...
POSTED Monday, July 7, 2008
I have a surprise for you: Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor is excellent. Yeah, excellent. And certainly one of the best music games I've ever played that didn't require its own plastic instrument. Although, come to think of it, I guess...
POSTED Monday, July 7, 2008
Happy birthday, America! Well, the bits between Canada and Mexico. Hey, what are you doing reading a gaming site? Go do something appropriate, like enjoy some fireworks, play a few rounds of golf, take in a movie, read a book,...
POSTED Friday, July 4, 2008
McCain is ahead by 9% in Ohio. Spooked by 2004, I send a media darling out there, accompanied by a consultant and an intimidator. The media darling, an Obama girl I found in West Virginia, improves Obama's standing on all...
POSTED Thursday, July 3, 2008
In Ohio, you can go to the library and check out War and Peace, The Water Method Man, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, and Madden NFL '08. According to the Dayton Daily News, four Ohio branches of their...
POSTED Thursday, July 3, 2008
With the level of preview coverage it's getting, Too Human doesn't really need reviews when it's officially released in mid-August. The upcoming action RPG from Silicon Knights has been getting a lot of play on the internet lately, thanks in...
POSTED Thursday, July 3, 2008
Gamespot's Rumor Control column reports two leaks that might reveal some of the songs included in Rock Band 2. One comes from a screen freeze of footage accidentally aired on X-Play, a videogaming show on G4 TV. Oops. But thanks!...
POSTED Thursday, July 3, 2008
That picture up there is probably about the actual size of the upcoming lightsaber stylus for the Nintendo DS. You can get larger ones that actually light up. How cool is that?!?! I mean, um, how dorky is that? Because...
POSTED Wednesday, July 2, 2008
I hate to be too hard on Age of Conan, since it's not a terrible game and I want to let the developers at Funcom get on with the business of finishing the game. However, I can't resist this tidbit:...
POSTED Wednesday, July 2, 2008
One of the early important battles is to grab the undecided voters. States are divided into conservative and liberal voters, and poaching some of the guys from the other side is an important part of your long-term strategy. But every...
POSTED Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Upon receiving a Nintendo Wii and a copy of Wii Fit for his birthday during an on-air presentation last month, CNN's Anderson Cooper had the followinfg comments: I have no idea what's going on. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Can I...
POSTED Wednesday, July 2, 2008
When it comes to talking about videogames, guys like me have it easy. I can say "Call of Duty 3 sucks" and "Oblivion rocks" without getting called into my boss's office. I just have to be sure to spellcheck first...
POSTED Wednesday, July 2, 2008
June is over. You know what that means, right? It means a) 2008 is half finished and b) whoa, slow down, summer, what's your hurry, you just got here? It also means it's time for the First Annual Half-Year Awards....
POSTED Tuesday, July 1, 2008
It's January of 2008. We have ten months until the Presidential election, at which point John McCain or Barack Obama will be elected into office. I am here today to tell you that I have been appointed Obama's campaign manager....
POSTED Tuesday, July 1, 2008
By way of Blues News, I came across a blog entry from a student in San Francisco who posts under the name Charlie Six. He rightly points out that a significant part of combat is "suppressing fire". Consider the infamous...
POSTED Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Funcom and Eidos should be rightly proud of how well Age of Conan has done. It took a fairly niche license and turned it into a successful MMO. No one can dispute that. But it's worth taking a look at...
POSTED Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Things are going to get a whole lot darker with the upcoming fan pack for Rainbow Six Vegas 2.There are three maps included in the free DLC: Murdertown – Dark, CQB Training – Dark and best of all the much-requested...
POSTED Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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