Us game bloggers talk a lot about games and play a lot of games but rarely make games ourselves. Well here’s one I just thought of. Below are several portions of reviews excerpted by Metacritic. The goal is to correctly identify the game it’s about.
These are all critically and commercially successful games everyone’s familiar with, …
That is actually the question. With the recent release of some concept shots for the PS Move inviting a glut of mixed internet people reactions from the logic failing PlayStation fundamentalists’ “this is all Nintendo’s fault” to the long suffering Wii forumite’s “how do you like them apples?”, motion controls seems to …
As a gamer, I’m often puzzled by decisions game designers make. This most often occurs with MMOs, where the eternal question of “poor decision or lack of resources?” seems to apply, but many console games come to mind, like the Gears of War magic chainsaw. Of course, as a gaming consumer, I am …
I think of Valve as both the most interesting and depressing developer we have. Interesting because they are a shining example of what can happen when you give time, money, and freedom to developers. Depressing because they are an increasingly obvious outlier. If armchair analysis of the industry were a fighting game, Valve would be …
The God of War 3 demo is out. Let’s discuss!
- Dear Sony – fuck you. I understand that you wanted to put a demo out right before the game is released. Everyone does it (or at least they should do it). But you’ve got a lot of balls to then go ahead and tell the …
If you’ve ever read any of my reviews of SNK games, you will know that I had an absurd fascination with the firm’s US branch. For the most part, they were a complete and utter mystery. The quality and frequency of their releases fluctuated constantly, and since they barely talked to the press, any and …
Recently, a brand spanking new copy of Resident Evil 4 for the Wii caught my eye. Reduced to clear and put in the shop window of a generic electronics shop in London’s laughable ‘electronics mile’, I couldn’t face the heart break over the thought of that particular copy of that gem of a game slowly …
I haven’t played any games localized by NISA, save for the 15 minutes I’ve spent with Disgaea on PSP. Yet I find myself fascinated with the company, thanks to the many stories of I hear of the mind boggling mistakes and blunders they have suffered over time. Here are a few that I have heard …
I like to think of myself as above silly things like console wars, but let’s face it, we all have our certain preferences. When we were kids our preferences came from the fact that our parents would only buy us one console, so whichever one we got was automatically the best. Nintendo’s exclusives were always …
Pat came to town last weekend and we took a break from our regularly scheduled God Hand and Shining Force 3 to play a bunch of games we had but had yet to really play. Our backlog is daunting so spending 30 hours skipping from disc to disc felt productive, even if we only …
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