Archive for August 24th, 2008

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 [...]

One of the upcoming releases I’m most excited about at the moment is LittleBigPlanet, which manages to look better every time I see it (which is impressive given how good it was looking from the off). However, there was a brief scare in the last couple of days when an announcement at Leipzig Games Convention [...]

I’ve long been a fan of RPGs and am partial to a spot of tactics and strategy in my games, so, as you might assume, Strategy RPGs have always held an element of appeal to me. And any talk of SRPGs will inevitably lead to mention of titles such as Fire Emblem, Tactics Ogre, Disgaea [...]

Gambling.  To some, it’s a brainless yet entertaining waste of time, to others it’s bafflingly simple, woefully dependent on luck with little to no skill.  If you’re part of the latter camp, you might as well stop reading.  While there are things that add to the featureset of Fable II Pub Games, the fact of [...]