Growing up, I was a huge fan of Legos. Loved the damn things—I think I spent time after grade school every day building Legos and watching old Batman reruns (POW!). Now that I’m an adult, it’s not really appropriate for me to build Legos, but it is OK for me to play video …
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Building a Mystery… I mean a City Builder
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 by golden jewResist the Temptation
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 by christianI just recently finished Resistance: Retribution on PSP. I’m not sure how I feel about it. On one hand, I played through its campaign in three straight nights of gaming, which means it was least somewhat addictive. On the other hand, I was so thoroughly finished with it by the end that I sent it …
Blood N’ Guts
Friday, January 8th, 2010 by christianThis week, Sega announced that they plan to make few Mature Wii games. Capcom followed with a similar statement (which they had to clarify with simple PR speak). Some folks seem to be in a frenzy over the news, so let …
Demon’s Souls is the GOTY
Monday, January 4th, 2010 by christianIt is no secret any more that many of us at videolamer are huge fans of Demon’s Souls. Those of us who have played it would easily consider it one of the best games of the year, if not the best game on the PS3. But our tastes in gaming do not always line up …
Some of my Favorite Box Covers of the Decade
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 by jacksonMetal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)
Resident Evil (2002)
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (2003)
Killer 7 (2005)
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (2005)
Contact (2006)
Electroplankton (2006)…
Finishing a Final Fantasy
Friday, December 18th, 2009 by christianYesterday, Final Fantasy VIII was uploaded to the Playstation Store. For just ten bucks, you too can relive one of the most controversial and most poorly regarded games in the franchise. I know I intend to.
My history with FF8 is long. My brother bought it at launch as one of many people …
Post PlayStation 2: Choose your own adventure!
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 by cunzy1 1You are in an excellent position as the market leader in the gaming industry. The PlayStation 2 went from strength to strength and, with few exceptions from the enemy, had some of the best games ever created. Nintendo have frankly just given up on the Gamecube and the Xbox is really heavy. With a huge …
Bordello of Bugs
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 by jayA few days ago I lost about five hours of time to the notoriously buggy Age of Empires DS. I’d waged a long war of attrition against the Taira and it was roughly round 80 when mid combat the game just froze. Majesco did put a piece of printing paper in the game’s case that …
Tomb Raider Underperform
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 by christianMy newest Gamefly mailing was Tomb Raider Underworld, one of the only games on my queue that isn’t new and low in availability. I figured that if the last two Crystal Dynamics led TR games were solid, that they’d follow it up with another winner. Boy was I wrong.
It isn’t that Underworld is …
Love the Capcom
Monday, November 30th, 2009 by cunzy1 1This is a transcript of a presentation I gave at the Women’s Institute last week.
In the ongoing, victimless, and utterly pointless console wars Capcom is America. It’s selling arms to everyone. Ammunition for all the fanboys to use on each other. Sure the Wii can’t do Dead Rising but then Zack and Wiki just …
