Grand Theft Auto is a highly anticipated game, much like Halo 3 was late last year. But I find Grand Theft Auto much more engaging than Halo 3 was. The types of people who play GTA are more than the highly ADD teenagers that usually play Halo 3. A stranger to the game will pick up a controller and jack cars, cause mayhem and just have fun in ( Read more... )

When the words fan fiction come up I am often reminded of the imagery of Harry Potter making out with Draco; there's some weird stuff out there. I take it all back after this video. Let's take the franchise I value with my life (Final Fantasy), combine it with another totally awesome franchise (Dead or Alive) and merge it with every awesome action ( Read more... )

Despite my better judgment, I decided to buy a CycloDS and after a day it arrived. It cost $70 and the 4GB MicroSD card was another $30. The end result is I've loaded my Nintendo DS with 31 games; that's almost all the good games I can come up with for the DS. Since I've been riding the high horse of throwing my hard earned money at movies, games ( Read more... )

Reading week is officially over. Tomorrow morning I will be waking up "early" in the morning and going to school. It's true that I didn't do much over my week long vacation but I just realized that I don't accomplish much going to school either. At least in the past week I've been able to do nothing in the comfort of my own home and waking up at ( Read more... )

I was worried that I spent $68 for an experienced I already enjoyed last year. There's red tape that the organizers of the show have to deal with to play music owned by a variety of companies, so I expected to hear the same music as last year. When I heard that they would be playing the music from Mass Effect for the first time I thought I'd get at ( Read more... )

In preparation for Sunday's Video Games Live, I've gone ahead and finished Mass Effect. I have never finished a Bioware game before but Mass Effect was certainly worth the effort. The story was epic, the world felt alive, and the game play (for the most part) was enjoyable. Even with quips, such as side quest maps being heavily recycled, clipping ( Read more... )

Raider, that is. I recently read a preview on IGN for Tomb Raider: Underworld. It looks like the developers are trying to set new standards for the Tomb Raider games. The preview pointed out several new aspects to the game, such as a widened ability to use the environment, new animations, detailed graphics like dirt sticking to and washing off of ( Read more... )

This time of year is the worst time of year for my pocket book. Every company in the universe decides that its a good idea to release everything I want in a narrow time frame. For games, starting a month or two ago all the good games flow out like a waterfall. I've already bought Bioshock and Halo 3. Games already out and that I want are Orange Box ( Read more... )

I don't live in a big or well known city like Toronto or Vancouver or New York. I was born and raised in Edmonton. So whenever I see my hometown being mentioned anywhere in any form of media I get kinda excited. And since I'm a gamer, I guess this is why I saw this.


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The past few days I've been like a ping pong ball bouncing between stress levels. During the week and for the beginning of the weekend I was super relaxed since I didn't have any assignments due. I was very mellow during this time. Yesterday I was freaking out because it seems all the deadlines were kind of stacking up on me. I don't have much due ( Read more... )