Gran Turismo 5 is out now, after years of development time and a daunting number of delays, including a few last minute announcements which left retailers stuck with incorrect ads and preorder cards, and no reliable information for customers as to when they can expect the game . The end result is that the biggest …
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The Ride of Your Life
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 by christianGadgets and games – when to move on?
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 by christianOne of the nicest things about this console generation has been the lack of concern over the next generation. At the very least it demonstrates that the industry isn’t entirely insane. Microsoft might have put the original Xbox to bed too quickly, but at least its successor, the 360, has been in it for the …
Medal of Honor and Today’s Market
Saturday, October 16th, 2010 by christianThe new Medal of Honor game is out this week. The reviews have been wishy washy at best, the sales will probably not reach Call of Duty levels, and once again, we should have all seen this coming.
A game like Medal of Honor is frustrating for me. I can see what it is striving to achieve (aside from …
Opinion – Final Fantasy 13
Friday, September 24th, 2010 by christianFor weeks, I have been trying to write something, anything, about Final Fantasy 13, but the task has proven difficult. One reason is that anything worth saying about the game has been stated already, and by better writers. Another is that I continue to suffer from the longest period of writer’s block I have ever encountered. …
Runegate – When Sales Beats Common Sense
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 by golden jewRiot Games finally released a feature for League of Legends that has been begged for since the game’s inception: additional rune pages. For those of you who aren’t familiar, runes are one of the metagame features in League of Legends that allows you to customize your gameplay. You get a series of different …
Sounds
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 by cunzy1 1I may have already mentioned ALREADY JESUS CHRIST ALREADY GET OFF MY BACK MOM ALREADY! That I am a big fan of video game soundtracks. Be it the official tunes, an inspired remix and very occasionally I even allow songs which have merely sampled an OT to creep onto the MP3 player. …
The New Xbox 360
Monday, July 19th, 2010 by christianThe release of the newest version of the Xbox 360 came right before I prepared to move to my own apartment, where my roomate’s console would be unavailable for the first time in several years. Perfect timing I guess, though there are always caveats with console hardware revisions, ones which make all the new features …
Features for Monster Hunter 4
Monday, July 12th, 2010 by jayI try to deny it but I may have secretly been interested because it’s on the Wii and as any Wii game review on most major sites will tell you over and over again the system lacks a plethora of high-quality third-party titles. Maybe it’s just that I don’t have a PSP and the series …
PSP RIP
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 by christianIt finally happened. After almost three years of excessive abuse and fairly steady play, my PSP-1000 has reached the point of no return. It still runs, but not well, and at this point I don’t think I’ll ever get it to read Memory Sticks.
Rather than try to fix the damn thing, I decided to replace …
A Lazy E3 Summary
Thursday, June 17th, 2010 by christianThis E3 was, in some ways, a reversal of what most gamers expected. Typically, we see everyone clamor over whether Sony or Microsoft came out on top, while we all wonder how Nintendo continues to bumble their way to success. This time around Nintendo schooled everyone, while both MS and Sony looked lost …
