Archive for December, 2008

So I find myself in the curious situation where for the last few days, since last Friday probably, I just can’t bring myself to fire up any games and give them a whirl. It’s not for a lack of games – the new Prince of Persia tops a pile of games currently staring at me [...]

I look at Ben’s list of games there, and it got me thinking about what sort of arbitrary ranking I can give to games I happened to like this year.
Then I remembered I actually hate everything. Well, shit.
But wait. Maybe it’s not all bad. I had to like something, right?
Yeah. I think I did. Maybe. [...]

So 2008 is drawing to its close and seeing various ‘the best X of 2008′ type articles pop up here and there on the Interweb I got to thinking about what I consider the best games of 2008. I decided that ‘best’ was probably too much of an inflammatory term to use for such a [...]

The time that I’ve spent playing 360 Arcade games in the past couple of weeks, especially when an entire party hops onto a game, has really made me curious.  Just what, exactly, does this “Certification process” that Microsoft runs for their games actually do?  I’m sure I’m nowhere near the first to ruminate on this [...]

The other day Epic released a patch for Gears of War 2 to fix the widely-reported matchmaking issues a lot of people were having. This was a relatively speedy response, however, it only addressed a very small set of the issues people have had with the multiplayer aspect of the game, which still suffers with [...]