Here is a tip for developers. Whenever you issue a challenge to the gaming masses, don’t make any bets, assessments, or guesses about how long it will take them to complete it, or if they will even complete it at all. They will simply let out a long cackle, and by the time they take …
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Race to the Finish
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 by christianStreet Fighter Folks
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 by christianYesterday was the release date for Street Fighter 4, at least if you’re being technical. Most every store in the nation won’t be offering it until today, but if you had a preorder, or a lucky store, then your local Gamestop may have been your potential source for a Tuesday pickup. When it …
Review – Prince of Persia
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 by christianThe games and film industries are currently obsessed with the concept of reboots. While this is not a new concept, traditionally reboots are greenlit for franchises that are fairly old, and only when the IP holder feels that it will remain commercially viable after a modern facelift. Certain entities in the gaming world …
Getting the Lists Right
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 by christianThe 2008 retrospective lists continue to roll in, and every time I see one I feel the need to comment on it. Without fail, once I’ve written my piece I simply delete the draft and worry about something more important.
I finally struck gold today. PC World has a list of 2008’s most overrated …
Condemned’s violence brutalizes its narrative
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 by christianIt is a matter of fact that many of the games we play contain violence in some form. Rarely do we ever stop to think about this, since this violence usually comes with no strings attached. You kill people because they are the bad guys, and most games do not try to flip …
2008 in Review Part 2
Friday, January 16th, 2009 by christianMany folks are saying that 2008 was a bad year for games. I think this is true in the sense that almost no Triple-A release lived up to their hype or potential. However, if you embrace a wide range of consoles and genres, there was a lot to love this year. Here …
Review – Street Fighter II HD
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 by christianThe number of permutations of Street Fighter 2 is one of gaming’s oldest punchlines. Though the joke still has teeth due to plain old nostalgia, savvy gamers now realize that the arcade revisions of Street Fighter added important tweaks and upgrades (and the console versions were various attempts at porting them to limited hardware). …
The next gen consoles then and now – Revisited
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 by christianI wrote this little ditty sometime last summer, analyzing all three consoles and how they had changed since launch. Since then the market has seen more major shifts, so I want to take yet another look at the Wii, 360 and PS3, and see what we might expect from them in 2009.
Microsoft
Then: I …
Digital Distribution in a Not so Ideal World
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 by christianI don’t like getting into personal anecdotes, so I’ll make this part quick. I was a strong supporter of digital distribution when it started popping up as a legitimate method of buying games. I was a Steam apologist when it was new and buggy, and I used Sam and Max as staunch proof …
Review – Gears of War 2
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 by christianWhen the first Gears of War was released, I wrote a little rant about Cliff Blezinski’s introduction to the game found in the instruction book. For a game about large meatheads shooting albino insect meatheads, the intro sounded far too pretentious and lofty. Commenters took me to task, and they convinced me …
