All posts tagged 'Gaming'
Eidos Says: Buy our games … buy alllll of them!
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by
New games coming to Steam are no big deal - nor is the ability to grab favorites for a reasonable price and not have to worry about play disks and whatnot. I wouldn’t report on any of that … but I just have to tell you what is now cooking on Steam!
Krull - Memory Lane
Posted on May 28th, 2008 by
Ah, Krull, does anyone even remember Krull? If you do, you can imagine how useful it’ll be. We can show our grandkids Lord of the Rings and then show them Krull (and Beastmaster, and even Willow) and they can pity us. We’d then stamp our feet and sputter “But we LIKED it!” - it was all we had.
Fallout 3: Preorder game, get … stuff
Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by
The associate at GameStop asked “Would you like to preorder Fallout 3 for the PS3 or XBOX360″? After deciding that I would not immediately kill the kid for forgetting that this is a PC franchise we’re talking about here, I said “PC version, standard not collector’s edition”. He said ‘oh’, rather surprised, but proceeded to take my money and give me the item that was the reason I pre-ordered the game about four months in advance: a DVD case containing a large poster and what looked like a 45RPM I might have bought thirty years or so ago.
Getting Disabled Gamers Back In the Game
Posted on May 20th, 2008 by
SNK Goodies
Posted on May 18th, 2008 by
The renowned video game maker SNK is known for its fighting games with personable characters and other action-packed arcade favorites. In honor of SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 being released on the PSP and PS2, I thought I’d briefly go over each game on the collection, share my own SNK opinions and experiences, and look at some other recent SNK collection releases. And just a warning, if you don’t have any interest in SNK, this blog will bore you to tears (or make you learn something new). So apologies in advance!
Mass Hysteria over Mass Effect PC DRM
Posted on May 17th, 2008 by
If you are a PC gamer and a RPG fan you are likely very excited about the upcoming release of Bioware’s Mass Effect. I was thrilled that it was being released a mere 6 months after coming out as an XBOX360 ‘exclusive’, and have had it on my ‘buy on day of release’ list ever since. However, if you take a look on Bioware’s forums or Amazon’s product page or pretty well anywhere PC games are discussed, you will find massive threads calling for a boycott of the game and a general tar-and-feathering of everyone at EA and Bioware. Why? What is the cause for all this hysteria about the game? DRM, or Digital Rights Management.
Puzzle Quest Warlords: The Seventh Purchase
Posted on May 15th, 2008 by
I have never been big into cell phone games, but my kids love them. I had an AT&T ‘Go Phone’ when I first started this new job since I couldn’t have a camera, and needed a cell since the family was 400 miles away. When I got my new phone, I gave the AT&T to my younger son, and my boys quickly discovered that it came with a bunch of games! Verizon loads their phones with exactly zero, so my older son was jealous.
Retrospective: Aging Nicely or Turning To Vinegar?
Posted on May 13th, 2008 by
After trying to keep pace with releases in multiple genres on multiple platforms through the fall and winter of last year, I thought I had burned myself out. In one way I had - I was burned out on playing games I didn’t want to play in genres I really didn’t like. That doesn’t mean that they were all bad games, just that they weren’t anything I really wanted to play. Fortunately I didn’t burn out on replaying games or trying games I had missed through the years. So instead of continuing to push myself to play games I didn’t want to play, I have taken a step back and started smelling the glorious flowers of games and genres I love …
Retro: The Oblivion Re-rating
Posted on May 8th, 2008 by
by Colleen Hannon, the Momgamer
Back in 2006 a role-playing game called Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was released and it has the distinction of becoming one of the few games re-rated by the ESRB. It began as T-Teen and ended up as M-Mature. GamerDad.com was on top of it at the time - here’s what we said:
PSP Turns 3, Phones Home
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by
I had planned to do a sort of ‘happy birthday’ post for the PSP as it turned three years old (in the US, that is) at the end of March. But also during March I made use of my PSP along with some new software updates to do a variety of new things, and wanted to highlight the ever-growing usefulness of the device as a multipurpose device. So now you get a merged post that will do both!
