Article Archive for July 2010
Review: Sharkoon Xtatic 5.1 Headset and Microphone (Hardware)
I was surprised to find the Sharkoon Xtatic Headset and Microphone combination when I came home from E3 recently. Normally, companies like to give a heads up before they send out a product, but not …
Nintendo Download – Spot the Furry!
Above you see a screenshot for one of today’s new WiiWare releases, Furry Legends (1000 points). Can you tell me what the hell is furry about it? I’ve been through about eight screens and I …
Read-a-long with Nintendo Power #257 (August 2010)
It’s a story oft told: third party games just don’t seem to fare as well on Nintendo platforms as the homegrown crops. In this issue, NP tries, again, to get people to pay attention to …
Weekend AeroProTip: A Boy and His Blob
GAME> A Boy and His Blob (1989)
SYSTEM> NES
SOURCE> Nintendo Power #16, Sept/Oct 1990
No known applications. It’s just for fun. This was the kind of game where a secret combo yielded an immovable, non-useful object… for …
Review: Transformers: War for Cybertron (PS3)
Some concepts just seem too perfect. If I were to imagine a license that would be ideal to bring to the world of video games, if only for commercial viability, it would be Takara’s classic …
Capcom’s Inafune announces “far-out” Mega Man Universe
Mega Man’s creator, Dr. Light Keiji Inafune, was pleased to announce a new Mega Man game today for Capcom. This XBLA title is being described as a new take on the series, and will contain …
WiiWare star “Swords & Soldiers” headed to PSN
I thought it was one of the best WiiWare games of 2009, even though Nintendo Power totally snubbed it in their 2009 awards nominations… and now PS3 owners will be able to give Swords & …
Free ride to the MLG? Got you covered!
Well, sorta free. Thanks to our good friends with the MLG, we’ve got your entrance fee covered for your team. That’s right, you and 3 of your best gaming companions can compete at the MLG …
E3 Preview: Your Shape Fitness Evolved (Xbox 360)
Okay, I know we are a gaming blog, and some might question the gaming value of a title called Your Shape: Fitness Evolved. However, as I get to be an older age, where people call …
Atari Makes Old, New Again with Haunted House Sequel
I vaguely remember Haunted House on the Atari 2600 back in the day. It was a simple affair, where you ran around a maze of rooms, and battled ghosts, spiders and other rough digital looking …
E3 Preview: The First Templar (Multi)
I had heard little to nothing about The First Templar when I went to my Kalypso appointment for the title, and was not sure what to expect. Was it a hack and slash title (sort …
Professor Layton warps time; ships his game a week earlier
The third Professor Layton game, titled “Professor Layton and the Unwound Future,” was scheduled to hit DS on September 20 of this year. Well, Hershel must have had a speaking engagement that week, because Nintendo …
World Class Style Comes to Forza 3 in Latest DLC Pack
Turn 10 Studios and Microsoft have put together a new Car pack for Forza Motorsports 3 called the World Class Car Pack. Each of the cars in this pack are fresh off the assembly line, …
Review: Singularity (PC)
I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked Singularity – Raven Software’s first original IP in over a decade, which looked good in trailers, but was led out to die by Activision, to the …
Deep Silver Unveils Lost Horizon
Well, after I just got done talking about the revival of the graphic adventure game in my Gray Matter preview, I then received an email from Deep Silver mentioning their newest adventure game coming this …
Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City trailer looks good enough to me
While you’re watching, amazed, at the visual quality of Atlus’ Etrian Odyssey III, I want you to think about this: The Nintendo DS hardware has, in some form, been around for nigh six years now. …
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