There’s a point when yesterday’s innovation becomes today’s over-used, highly obnoxious crap. Call it a fad, call it a momentary lapse in development judgment, but sometimes things just get a little out of hand and a neat characteristic of one game (deemed successful), soon reaches out, propagates, and enslaves the entire gaming world.
Everyone’s favourite cranky […]
So you’ve always considered yourself a hardcore gamer. You’ve boasted to your friends and sat atop your throne of Gaming Greatness. But time has past. You’ve gotten older. Gotten married. Maybe have more responsibilities. So, are you still really hardcore?
TechRadar has listed ‘11 Signs That You’re Not A Hardcore Gamer’ to help you answer the eternal […]
The race is one to build on an internet-wide phenomenon (Facebook) and apply it in a focussed fashion to the games industry. I’ve been reading quite a few press releases lately that detail several startups getting capital funding, and existing sites expanding their functionality, all in an effort to entire gamers to live out their […]
Scourge of fans of both quality cinema and protecting the unspoiled reputation of gaming’s great franchises, Uwe Boll has also been known to come out swinging at critics of his work with such vastly intelligent retorts as calling the reviewer “stupid”. For years, many in the gaming community have been praying that no more of […]
Another take on the platform wars predicts that consoles will go the way of the dinosaur, a somewhat surprising statement given that it was spoken by Sandy Duncan, the former Vice President of Microsoft’s European “Home and Entertainment” division.
Duncan, whose opinion I whole-heartedly agree with, cites convergence as the major threat to the ongoing viability […]
Based on recent statistics that show PC platform games accounting for only 14% of the total game sales in 2007, the alarmists are back at the oft-heard panic button, ringing in the doom of PC gaming in the face of the uber-advanced technology now present in consoles. It used to be that PC processors slaughtered […]
What do we call this technique children? Deflection, deflection, deflection.
In the current societal climate, where fried and fatty is glanced longingly at from the corner while being denounced for the terrible toll it’s taking on the health of both adults and children, McD’s needed a new punching bag to point at, guiding the hordes aggressive […]
We all get a little caught up in the media hype surrounding the plentiful release of blockbuster titles (Halo 3, Bioshock, blah blah). 2007 has been touted as the greatest year in gaming history, as the pinnacle of gaming achievement…so imagine my surprise when I read a Next-Gen piece that dug around to […]
My vocal capabilities, at least in the opinion of SingStar 80’s, fall into the range of Erasure, Flock of Seagulls, and Madonna (in her Material Girl phase). I don’t know whether to be proud or frightened of that fact, but I do know that I then stole the game, a set of mics and […]
I work in an industry where for three months out of the year, I fall off the face of the planet, lose touch with friends, family, and reality, and exist in a zombie-esque state of semi-consciousness. Take, for example, the fact that I just had a very, very hard time spelling consciousness…that is the […]
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