Archive for September, 2007

Finishing the Fight

Monday, September 24th, 2007 by christian

Sorry folks, but I need to put videolamer’s bold blend of criticism and cynicism on the back burner and brew a fresh pot of Game Fuel. That’s right - we need to talk about Halo 3.

Rest assured, we will be featuring a review of the game in some form or another, despite the fact …

Matt gets his PSP to run on TV, nearly wets himself

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007 by matt

Woohoo! I finally got my PSP Slim component video cables in the mail on Friday. I was a tad disappointed to find out that Sony held the release of the cables until only recently (the Daxter bundle with the Silver Slim unit was released much earlier in the month), but the wait has been …

Weekly News We Care About Wrap Up - 9.21.07

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007 by jay

PSP outsells DS in Japan
Square’s Final Fantasy VII spin off for the PSP, Crisis Core, sold half a million copies last week. It also sold PSPs. Possibly not all of the 95 thousand Sony sold in the week, but likely around 80 thousand, which is how many more units were sold than the …

Dual Shock 3 please, with a side of rumble

Thursday, September 20th, 2007 by matt

Well, it’s official, rumble is back. Officially dubbed the Dual Shock 3, Sony has “listened” to its fans and added the most basic of features to their much scoffed-at SIXAXIS controller. Isn’t it amazing?!

Yeah, not really. This should have been implemented with the PS3 before it even came …

Discs based gaming and you - Luddites and grognards

Thursday, September 20th, 2007 by christian

I have something to admit. It will sound strange in this day and age, but I still get a bit weirded out playing games on optical media.

It really makes no sense, considering just how long I have been popping discs into trays to get my game on. My reasons are a combination …

PS1 games you may have missed: The RPGs

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 by chris

As you all may be aware, Sony is finally picking up the software side of backwards compatibility for its shiny new system.

Since the PS3 doesn’t have any good RPGs or strategy games of its own yet, I would like to take this opportunity to recommend a few rare games that may actually be compatible with …

SDF-1: Sony Defense Force was obviously a joke

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 by christian

Let’s talk about Sony Defense Force. The site has been a constant source of humor for myself and other Lamer staff for a few weeks now. Apparently the site PS3Tag did some “detective work” that amounted to looking at the properties of a “whois”, and now the site has been “found”. …

Dreamcast Mania! - Overrated games

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 by christian

What better way to wrap up our celebration of the Dreamcast than by killing it off? In my final entry in this series, I’m going to do what I do best - slaughter some sacred cows. Not all of them are at the top of many Dreamcast gamer’s lists (and some certainly are), …

Dreamcast Mania! - Great games you can’t get anywhere else

Monday, September 17th, 2007 by christian and jay

Videolamer noticed that in our attempts to keep Dreamcast Mania! alive, so very many of our articles were about the things we missed out on, rather than a celebration of what we had. That changes now. Today we will be going over some of the absolute best games the DC (and only the …

Xbox Live Demo Roundup 2

Monday, September 17th, 2007 by christian

Another week, another batch of new and slightly stale demos to read about….

Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground - It probably isn’t coincidence that this one lands the week that SKATE comes out. It looks like in typical fashion, gamers are drawing the line in the sand before releases even occur. The SKATE demo was …