Over the years Silent Hill has gone from being a cult classic that all the cool kids preferred, to a media darling that the cool kids still preferred, to a struggling franchise that no one seems happy with. This is because no one can agree on what Silent Hill is all about. The basic …
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Review – Silent Hill Origins
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 by christianReview – Soul Calibur IV
Monday, August 25th, 2008 by christianEver since Soul Calibur 2, it has been clear that Namco decided that their once experimental, more serious fighting game series could be another cash cow, if only they made a few tweaks. Thus we have been getting sequels that continuously emphasize style over substance, chock full of nerd bait for people on both …
Review – Braid
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 by christianWe can spend a lot of time talking about Braid, trying to interpret it and stamp out a definitive idea on what it is and what it says. There isn’t much of a point in it though. Braid, for all its flaws, is literature, something that has meaning. Anything I say about …
Rearmed and Ready – Are you?
Friday, August 15th, 2008 by christianBionic Commando: Rearmed is now out in all intended formats. If you have one of these formats, and you love the challenge and the feel of classic 2d games, I hope you have it already. If you don’t, might I suggest you give it a download? Until Mega Man 9 hopefully rocks …
Review – Alone in the Dark
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 by christianApparently, it is becoming the rule rather than the exception for games to be rushed to release, rather than given the time to properly simmer. There are a slew of factors causing this, such as soaring costs, tricky console hardware, and the fickle, tiny window of attention that the hype machine grants.
Of course, a …
Review – Army of Two
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 by christianArmy of Two is an attempt at many things, one of which is to capitalize on the recent enthusiasm for cooperative games. Co-op is arguably the number one most important bullet point a game can have in its press release. Even if it is hardly suitable for the game at hand, excluding it …
Big Tuesday Blog Post
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 by christianInitially this post was going to be about one topic, but several other things have come up that warrant discussion. Let us begin!
- Yahoo! Music is closing its doors. You probably never used Yahoo music, but it was big enough to warrant some sponsorships with Pepsi in the past, and worked …
Review – Resistance: Fall of Man
Monday, July 28th, 2008 by christianIn Resistance: Fall of Man, scrappy human soldiers in the UK go up against a technologically superior (and seemingly alien) foe in an alternate, World War 2 era universe. To those uninitiated in gaming culture, this may sound like War of the Worlds updated by half a century.
If only it were that whimsical. …
Dual Shocked
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 by christianWay back when the Playstation was Sony’s way of saying “fuck you” to Nintendo, there was the original Playstation controller. The method behind it was simple; take what Nintendo made and make it bigger. The controller had the same layout as a Super Nintendo pad, with some added handles and two extra shoulder …
E3 08 – Sony Press Conference impressions
Friday, July 18th, 2008 by christianThe major E3 press conferences played out the way I expected, except for Sony’s. Nintendo didn’t have much, and they didn’t really need much. Microsoft needed a fresh coat of paint and wanted a broader audience for the 360, and revealed attempts to accomplish these goals. Sony needed some big fucking guns, …
