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November 2008 Archive for Fidgit

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We're out of here until Monday. Have a great holiday weekend! Eat all you want because you can always just...
 
Videogame facts proven to be wrong up to 90% of the time!

Videogame facts proven to be wrong up to 90% of the time!

A great way to get attention is to invent facts. It doesn't matter if the facts are wrong, because by...
 
Videogame watchdog group gives industry a good report card

Videogame watchdog group gives industry a good report card

The National Institute on Media and the Family has issued its annual report on the videogame industry and aside from...
 
Fallout 3 to be continued in Pittsburgh and Alaska

Fallout 3 to be continued in Pittsburgh and Alaska

So Far Cry 2 gets a couple of guns, Fable II gets a little island, and now Fallout 3 hits...
 
Halo: Recon is no longer Halo: Recon, but a bunch of letters instead

Halo: Recon is no longer Halo: Recon, but a bunch of letters instead

Apparently the word "recon" is either too prosaic or already featured in too many game titles. Or maybe it just...
 
10 reasons you should play Sacred 2

10 reasons you should play Sacred 2

Now that I've ironed out my technical problems with Sacred 2, the sequel to the fastidious German RPG from 2004,...
 
Sci Fi Wire's top ten videogame annoyances

Sci Fi Wire's top ten videogame annoyances

Jenna Busch, who is sick of World War II, first-person shooters, and the lack of nudity in Wii games, lays...
 
Far Cry 2 does explosions like [insert something really dramatic here]

Far Cry 2 does explosions like [insert something really dramatic here]

Not many days go by that I don't fall in love with Far Cry 2 just a little bit more....
 
Halo Wars controls better than real time strategy games on a PC?

Halo Wars controls better than real time strategy games on a PC?

This must be "Crazy Things Said By the Lead Designers of Upcoming Real Time Strategy Games" week. After the Dawn...
 
Knothole Island coming to Fable 2 for ten bucks

Knothole Island coming to Fable 2 for ten bucks

Last week, the developers of Fable II said they had a big announcement to make, but they were going to...
 
If Dutch post-Impressionists made Counter-Strike levels

If Dutch post-Impressionists made Counter-Strike levels

The picture above is "de_vangogh", a level for Counter-Strike made by a guy who goes by the name "Nipper". The...
 
Dawn of War 2 to have separate multiplayer and single-player game designs

Dawn of War 2 to have separate multiplayer and single-player game designs

Dawn of War 2, the Warhammer 40,000AD-themed real time strategy game of space orks knocking chainsaws with space marines, comes...
 
Tabula Rasa diagnosed with terminal cancellation

Tabula Rasa diagnosed with terminal cancellation

The sci-fi MMO Tabula Rasa is on its way to being literally rasa'ed (the Latin phrase is usually translated "blank...
 
Be the ultimate badass in Far Cry 2 with your own silenced shotgun

Be the ultimate badass in Far Cry 2 with your own silenced shotgun

I already get a little bit of a No Country for Old Men vibe from Far Cry 2. As I'm...
 
November 24, 2008: Wallet threat level green

November 24, 2008: Wallet threat level green

The rest of the 2008 should be mostly safe for your wallet. It will face only minimal threats from stuff...
 

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