Archive for August, 2008

Each of the big three systems features some form of download game service these days – XBLA, the PSN Store and the Virtual Console for the 360, PS3 and Wii respectively – and there’s plenty to praise about each of them. However, one thing I’ve come to notice, and that disappoints me a little, is [...]

Alright, so Microsoft has been running this Summer of Arcade program for the last five weeks.  One of the highlights has been the oft-delayed but just as often spoken of Castle Crashers, from Behemoth. You know those guys. They made the good but somewhat flawed Alien Hominid.
It’s a crying shame then, that with as much [...]

This generation, Sony has been pretty keen on embracing the digital distribution front. While they continue to release smaller games through the PSN just as Microsoft does with it’s Xbox Live Arcade, they have also released a few games in both digital and disc format. These releases, which so far have included Warhawk, Gran Turismo [...]

Reading the discussion about whether it’s “right” for developers to just send up a broken pile of shit on release and follow it up with a patch a few weeks/months later got me thinking.  We got into this mess by allowing a PC gaming-style mentality of “Oh, it’ll get fixed EVENTUALLY” to creep into console [...]

So last night when I got home from work I was quick to fire up my 360 and get to downloading the much anticipated Castle Crashers, the latest in a string of top class XBLA titles. However, it’s another pricier title (like Braid it will set you back 1200 MS points), and one in which [...]

Before Guitar Hero became a household brand, it was a fairly out-there title in the gaming world. An insane guitar peripheral, coupled with head-bangin’ hits from the 70s and beyond? There were few things greater than this when it dropped, and I was happy to be an early adopter.
When Guitar Hero 2 came out, it [...]

In the last couple of days I’ve seen a couple of gaming sites running articles that rumour or predict the ‘next-gen’ of consoles, such as this Joystiq bit that rumours a Halo 4 in development and that it might be a launch title for a new Xbox console. Admittedly a new Halo game could take [...]

Every now and then I get together with a bunch of friends from university for our so-called Geek Fests, where we basically spend a day mucking about, playing video and board games (since one of our number is a collector), having food and drinks, and catching up; all good fun. At the most recent Geek [...]

The Guardian Legend is somewhat of a mystery to me. I remember asking my mom to buy it for me at a mysterious toy store when I was a kid. I remember clearly having no idea what the game was, but I was drawn in by it’s box art, which like most NES games, showed [...]

I just this past week finished up a 4-year stint (which will continue during school breaks) working at Toys R Us, selling video games.  In the time I spent there, I learned quite a bit about how much of a hellhole retail is (which has nothing to do with this blog) but also how terrible [...]