I 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 …
Archive for December, 2008
Digital Distribution in a Not so Ideal World
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 by christianNews We Care About Update 12.29.08
Monday, December 29th, 2008 by jayNintendo to offer streaming videos, just not here
Nintendo is bizarrely slow to adopt some aspects of technology. Their latest console, the Wii (pronounced “Why”), has only cursory online abilities, and lacks both a practical storage device and the ability to function as a time machine.
As a curmudgeon who spouts things like, “Game systems …
Golden Jew’s Nuggets of Wisdom #3
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 by golden jewAm I getting pickier, are developers getting suckier, or am I a fanboy?
I’m definitely gaming less, largely due to an increase in non-gaming activities eating my free time. As a result I’m finding myself particularly discriminating when it comes to what I actually buy and play. Video games aren’t my primary outlet these days, I’d …
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 …
Review – Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
Monday, December 22nd, 2008 by chrisTales of Symphonia is one of the Gamecube’s greatest RPGs. I only got around to finishing it a couple of months ago at the urging of several friends. I was further encouraged to play through it by the impending release of its sequel, Dawn of the New World. Unfortunately, DotNW does not …
Review – Dead Space
Friday, December 19th, 2008 by d. olsenIn April of 2007 a man by the name of John Riccitiello began work as the new Chief Operating Officer of Electronic Arts, one of the two largest video game conglomerates on earth. EA had fallen victim to its own massiveness in the years prior. In order to grow it had purchased and then cannibalized …
Review – Call of Duty: World at War
Thursday, December 18th, 2008 by christianAs expected, Activision has pimped the hell out of 2008’s yearly Call of Duty release, World at War. The savvier gamers out there have not been fooled, and have spent their energies trashing it before it even got a chance to prove itself. They know that WaW was developed not by series creator …
The Ever-Evolving State of Gaming, part 1 of 327
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 by tysonHere it is, December 2008. I am setting here typing this up on a computer I rarely use for anything other than playing music and scouring the internet for unseen porn. If you would have told me ten years ago that Chinese Democracy would actually get released and that I would play console games more …
Pachter predicts the PS3 is fucking awesome
Monday, December 15th, 2008 by jaySony is something special. Any other console with the combined hardware and software sales of the PS3 would be considered solidly in third place. Somehow when it’s Sony in third, however, it is simply a strategy to take advantage of a grandiose ten year plan. Imagine how violently you’d have laughed had Microsoft announced a …
Golden Jew’s Nuggets of Wisdom #2
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 by golden jewCooking Games
This is a slippery slope I’m about to embark upon, but what do I care, you clicked this link, so you’re stuck with me. I can’t be any worse than doing your job, right?
I get video game escapism. I was a nerdy kid before blooming into my awesome alpha male self, so I understand …