This console generation has been rough to Sony.  They went to the trouble of trying to make an uberconsole in the form of the Playstation 3, only to watch it get its pants beat by Ninendo's underpowered, yet lovably oddball Wii.  Then they had to stand by and watch as their third-party exclusive titles like Devil May Cry IV and Final Fantasy XIII ( Read more... )

When the economic recession first hit, famous writers swore up and down that video game industry was recession proof.  Several months and a couple highly publicized studio closings later, writers seem to have taken the opposite stance and now think that the industry is headed for a meltdown that would make the Great Crash of '83 look like a slow ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel like such a bad person here, since I'm more likely to post about an article that irritates then one I genuinely like.  This is partly because it's a lot easier to flip my rage switch online then it is to flip my gush switch.

Case in point: I saw an article on Gamasutra that flipped that little rage switch.  The article is entitles ( Read more... )

I am an English Major.  This is  fact I rarely broadcast here, because I feel it is unnecessary.  After all, I didn't become a writer because I majored in English, I majored in English because I wanted to become a writer.  Besides, it's not like you need to degree to write, much less write on the Internet ( Read more... )

In case I've never made it clear, I really like indie gaming.  By all rights, the genre should be clogged with clones and knockoffs of preexisting games.  Instead indie developers seem to have a knack for making  innovative twists on old gaming standbys as well as some genuinely new game experiences.

In the past few years, some of my favorite ( Read more... )

These past few days I've indulged myself in letting nostalgic memories of past games float to the surface.  Normally I don't do that sort of thing because I fear that nostalgia is a dangerous force  if you lose your sense of perspective.

Case in point:  I recently was browsing at Cnet when I saw a blog post entitled, "Has the Zelda franchise lost ( Read more... )

Recently, Wired's Game|Life had an interview with Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime about a whole bunch of topics.  There was, expectedly, a lot of cooperate double-speak coming from Reggie, but there was one question that caught my eye.  The question had do with whether there would eventually be some form of a Virtual Console on the Nintendo DSi.  The ( Read more... )

Turns out I jumped to conclusions just a bit on the SD card update for the Wii. When I heard that games from the SD card were loaded into the Wii's flash memory, I thought it was a system similar to single cart play on the GBA and the DS, where the game is basically loaded into RAM and played from there ( Read more... )

This is related to the whole scans_daily brouhaha. I mentioned earlier that Peter David is somewhat responsible for the group demise. This being the Internet, "somewhat" quickly turned into "guilty as charged" as people began to post to his blog. So it's somewhat understandable that he has felt the need to defend himself in the form of several posts. One ( Read more... )

This week it was announced that indie-hit Braid is coming to PC, meaning you no longer need an X-Box 360 to play the game (though you are still screwed if you only have a PS3). For those unfamiliar with the game, it is a puzzle platformer centered around time manipulation featuring a beautiful hand-drawn graphics and charming music. I also have ( Read more... )