You don’t catch someone by running slower (than they are running)
Eurogamer is one of my favorite sites but they’ve hit on one of my many pet peeves – inaccurate sales language. In Japan, the PS3 has been doing a little bit better lately while Wii sales have been slowing down. Eurogamer describes this …
Archive for January, 2009
News We Care About Update
Friday, January 30th, 2009 by jayGetting the Lists Right
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 by christianThe 2008 retrospective lists continue to roll in, and every time I see one I feel the need to comment on it. Without fail, once I’ve written my piece I simply delete the draft and worry about something more important.
I finally struck gold today. PC World has a list of 2008’s most overrated …
Golden Jew’s Nuggets of Wisdom #4
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 by golden jewWhat happened to resource management/economic games?
Being a Jew, and a dork (as we have established by my contributing to this site), I love resource management games. Railroad Tycoon and Tropico bring back fond memories: games where you gather A, process A into B, and then sell B for C(ash). Unfortunately, I seem to be the …
Condemned’s violence brutalizes its narrative
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 by christianIt is a matter of fact that many of the games we play contain violence in some form. Rarely do we ever stop to think about this, since this violence usually comes with no strings attached. You kill people because they are the bad guys, and most games do not try to flip …
2008 in Review Part 4
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 by patGames, I have always believed, would benefit from acceptance into mainstream culture: once the stigma that video games entertained only troglodytic nerds disappears, the scope of what games are allowed to be would increase. This has started to happen, as, despite the whining and hand wringing of those who want games to remain in …
2008 in Review Part 3
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 by jayBeing an optimistic person, I’d like to discuss some of the things I was disappointed with in ’08. Last year must have been the first since I reached financial independence that I played games on only one publishers system; in 2008 I was a Nintendo fanboy.
Oddly enough, I am not adding the Wii in ’08 …
2008 in Review Part 2
Friday, January 16th, 2009 by christianMany folks are saying that 2008 was a bad year for games. I think this is true in the sense that almost no Triple-A release lived up to their hype or potential. However, if you embrace a wide range of consoles and genres, there was a lot to love this year. Here …
2008 in Review Part 1
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 by chrisI like to pretend that my favorite games will always be the classics, but this year has been quite a trial for that facade. Every year more and more games come out, and I have no chance to play just the ones that people recommend to me, much less all of them. The …
Review – Street Fighter II HD
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 by christianThe number of permutations of Street Fighter 2 is one of gaming’s oldest punchlines. Though the joke still has teeth due to plain old nostalgia, savvy gamers now realize that the arcade revisions of Street Fighter added important tweaks and upgrades (and the console versions were various attempts at porting them to limited hardware). …
Review – Dragon Quest IV
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 by golden jewFor many, the Dragon Warrior/Quest franchise has a great deal of meaning, nostalgia and history. I remember playing Dragon Warrior on the NES when I was a young whippersnapper. I also remember that when faced with a choice at the end of joining the last boss or killing him, I decided to join him. The …
