Articles in Editorials
Run, Don’t Walk to Steam and Get Vampire Masquerade On Sale
Just noticed this little footnote over at Steampowered.com, but Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines is on sale for $4.99. With that price, you would be foolish not to pick up this gem of a game. The …
This is not what a purchase experience for a game console should be like
My launch Wii is on the verge of exploding or something, so I decided to go buy a new one. Toys R Us had a promotion yesterday, online only, where if you spent $125 or …
My Two Bits on the Netflix Rate Changes
Yesterday, Netflix sent out word to its subscriber base that it was going to be changing its plan structure starting on September 1st, 2011. Instead of including streaming with every disc plan, Netflix has split …
Supreme Court Votes 7-2, To Strike Down California’s Violent Video Game Act
After winding its way through the legal system over the last five years, the Supreme Court finally reached an opinion on the California Violent Video Game act. The law was originally written by California Senator …
Is there any hope for DCUO?
I sort of hate articles like this, where the entitled fanboy swings in with a can’t-miss list of bullets that could, would and should “save” Game X. What the hell do I know about the …
L.A. Noire is merely O.K. Noire
I finished the homicide desk caseload in L.A. Noire and headed off for my first vice team assignment. As I sailed through 1947 Los Angeles (driving as if it’s Liberty City in 2008) it occurred …
The Forgotten During the PSN Outage: PSN Game Devs
So here we are, a week later, and there is still no PSN to get into at this time. Sure, it sucks for those that want to co-op in Portal 2, or rip thei spine …
Surprise – Another Gaming Study Paints 1 in 10 as Addicts
While perusing the news of the day on the web, I ran across a news article that talked about whether gaming fuels mental illness. Curious over the title, I decided to read the article, and …
2010: A Year in Gaming As Witnessed by Joe Haygood
Putting together an article about my experiences with 2010 gaming could have been summed up rather quickly with the following statement – Mass Effect 2 came out and then all my stuff broke. Yeah, that …
Do You Want Kinect?, 4 Questions to Ask Yourself
So you have one day left before Microsoft drops their big motion gaming bomb on the world. Many of you have already ordered one, myself included, and many of you are still hanging quite perilously …
APB: A Case Study for MMO Disaster
It was just announced the other day that Realtime Worlds was unable to find additional funding or a new buyer for their All Points Bulletin (APB) MMORPG and have disclosed the fact that they are …
Strange Effect of the Halo: Reach Live Action Shorts
Microsoft has put together several new live-action shorts that follow several characters on Reach before the battle that is to be depicted in Halo: Reach. I watched the first short, which shows a couple that …
Queue jumpers corrupting an otherwise excellent experience at Goozex
I’ve come forward time and again in favor of the website Goozex.com, which allows users to trade their video games for points that can be used for other games. Overall, it’s an excellent system that …
Rock Band 3 – Re-Charting Old Songs, RB2 Track Import Questions
So, in our E3 Podcast last week, Fourhman and myself talked about my Rock Band 3 presentation, and the new keyboard and real guitar and how that works into the old library. At the time, …
Second Opinion: Microsoft E3 Press Briefing
Earlier today, I had the unfortunate luck of watching the Microsoft Press Briefing from the JW Marriot hotel across the street from the Los Angeles Convention Center. My bad luck of course comes from the …
Would you let your four year old play GTA?
Congratulations and welcome to Wednesday. Your Internet Freakout (TM) for today will be this article on Kotaku entitled “My Four Year Old Son Plays Grand Theft Auto.”
It’s a nicely written piece, where author Matthew Orona …
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