Thanks to Giant Bomb, MiiVerse Sketch is really the only thing I've been friggin' "playing" on Game & Wario. Also, I clearly don't know how to "draw" the word "vegan".
Thanks to Giant Bomb, MiiVerse Sketch is really the only thing I've been friggin' "playing" on Game & Wario. Also, I clearly don't know how to "draw" the word "vegan".
I never blog here or anywhere else, so I don't know why I decided to pick up the keyboard again, but feh, who cares. Referring to the blog title, it's not as if we had any set schedule in the first place. Trigames has always just been a thing that Al and I did--at times, with differing goals depending on where we were in life, but still ultimately just a "thing we did"--and these days it's been...
It's rare that I blog anywhere nowadays, but sometimes all it takes is a bombastic announcement and reveal to get me all up in arms again. Nevertheless, I'll always be late to the party, so I'm sure that my general mixed reactions to Nintendo 's new Wii U interface have already been echoed elsewhere. I like the concept. I'm NOT feeling the form factor. I'm hearing the ergonomics are still great...
A few friends and I were bored and put together a randomized Bingo board for PAX East. Just print out the sheet--or multiple sheets. See someone or something out there that fits the board criteria? Mark it down! Then tweet what you saw to the #PAXEastBingo hashtag. Remember: It's randomized, so you can hit REFRESH to see the different squares that are out there. What do you win? Shit if I know....
A MrCHUPON Production (via Talkin' Mouf ). Naturally.
Almost exactly two months ago, my original Xbox 360 gave up the ghost after over 4 years of service. I had Ol' Bessie replaced with an Arcade unit (I needed one on the cheap, and that very night), which currently helps the spirit live on through the old 20GB hard drive it has strapped on its back. Three nights ago, I was looking forward to spending the extra hour gained from the end of Daylight...
Past creating the DmC page and seeing that Radiant Silvergun was (OMG!) getting a release on XBOX Live Arcade , I didn't really have the fortune of paying much attention to TGS last week, so I went to various websites to get my fill of information. Among the various news stories, game announcements and interviews as a little bit where Keiji Inafune , Lord of Awesome at Capcom , mentions that he...
This is something Al , Pete and I are going to discuss on the podcast this Saturday, but I had to vent about it here. I'd love to hear your thoughts about this, either in the comments or as an email to our mailbag . Recently on the front page of Giant Bomb, I saw this piece of news: http://www.giantbomb.com/news/ This spurs on a topic that I find myself annoyed with. Basically, the "official ju...
In case you haven't heard... Trigames.NET Podcast Episode 174 has been up for the better portion of the week. Didn't know? Well, then, that means you should be subscribing to our RSS ( http://trigames.net/rss.xml ) with iTunes, Zune Marketplace, or your RSS reader. (You can also get it direct from the site: http://bit.ly/cWucez ) We're running dry on listener topics this week (i.e. we haven't t...
So on Episode 173 of the Trigames.NET Podcast , which you can download now off of iTunes, Zune Marketplace or any other podcast feed ( http://trigames.net/rss.xml ), we talked about older games that we'd like to see remade in this day and age, and not in the Ninja Gaiden way, but the Bionic Commando Re-Armed way--i.e. keeping the core spirit of the gameplay and not totally overhauling it. Pete,...
Square and Enix have been remaking games with updated graphics but the same core for quite a while now (Dragon Quest IV - VI; Final Fantasy I, II, III, IV; SaGa 2/Final Fantasy Legend 2). Capcom did it with the Gamecube Resident Evil, and then worked with GRIN to do it with Bionic Commando: Rearmed. Personally, I can't wait for that SaGa 2 remake. It's not the greatest of games, but it's the fi...
On Episode 172 of the Trigames.NET podcast we'll be talking about the first videogame consoles we bought with our own money--portable and home. We want to know what you bought, too! Qualifier: We're thinking it should be with your own money--in other words, not allowance given to you by your parents that you saved up, but money you earned via some sort of part time job. (Although if you're too...
Two weeks ago, I played through Aksys Games' PSP role-playing game, Mimana Iyar Chronicles for a Gamespot review. It wasn't pretty. It started out okay, and as such I had decent hopes for it to be a serviceable dungeon crawler with an action-centric battle system in the vein of Tales of Phantasia, Star Ocean II and the like, but... well, click that link there and see for yourself. It's a little...
Al and I headed up to the PAX East grounds on Thursday, March 26th, with our Rock Band tourney band members Maurice (aka GXslim, former pro-gamer) and Megu (aka Midnight917, Fragdoll Cadette) to meet up with fellow Trigames.NET Podcaster Pete (aka Ryvvn) and his girlfriend Desiree. What ensued was lots of Rock Band, nerding out, drinking, partying with Fragdolls, Rock Band, barely sleeping, the...
Pete, Al, and I will be going, along with two of my other friends / Rock Band Tourney band members (one of whom is a newly-minted Fragdoll Cadette; give Megu a round of applause--we'll all be celebrating her game industry status the night before PAX East begins with some good ol' games and boozin'). If you'd like to catch up with us to say hi or just punch us in the face, let us know. You can h...
I'm talking Gamecube/PS2/Xbox-era stuff. Instead of contributing to Gamestop's profits, I thought I might some fellow game connoisseurs out instead. I've got way too much stuff lining my shelves. Yeah, all of these games have been used by me at some point for some reason (you know, sometimes there is a dearth of toilet paper in the hou- I mean, um... coasters?)--well, I guess maybe a few of the...
Holy hell, it's been a long time since I posted. Work had been kicking my butt, hard, up and down the street, and I lapsed into my typical "I'm two podcasts behind!!" editing schedule. Well, no more. I'm finally back up to date, with Episode 167 having been recorded this past weekend and posted just now. I also am going to see some very brief respite thanks to much-needed days off before I go b...
Considering my foray into Final Fantasy VIII and my resulting re-obsession with the music of the series, I thought I'd put together one of my ol' music quizzes and test your mettle. This one's almost dumb-easy since it's the battle music, and the battle music is what you hear most, but I figured it'd be best to the Holidays off nice and easy.
The Playstation Network re-release of Final Fantasy VIII happened much quicker than I would have imagined. When I came home from the airport late Thursday night, my podcast co-host Al informed me that Sony had just thrown the game online and I immediately booted up the MediaGo software to begin downloading it. $9.99 (plus tax) and five hours of sleep later, I had Final Fantasy VIII on my Playst...
Earlier in the week, I wrote about revisiting Final Fantasy VIII , a game I managed to loathe after my first run with it. Often I look back on things that were deemed quality experiences by others (this extends past videogames--movies, most notably Michael Mann's "Collateral"; music; books) and start to think about the things I missed. With Final Fantasy VIII, I realized that I never really exp...
Sometimes your initial evaluation of a game comes when you're at a point in your life when you're either not ready for, interested in, or understanding of what it has to offer. You might not be able to grasp its complexities; you might be too impatient; you might miss what lies deep inside the gameplay because of another potential flaw that you just can't ignore. Whatever the case may be, you m...
We're brainstorming up a new segment, which we hope to keep consistent on the podcast , in which we talk about a game or a series of games--or, more accurately, a subset of a series of games (i.e. the 8-bit Mario games or the 8-bit Castlevania games) for 30 minutes. Of course, all three of us will have had to play said game(s) to be familiar enough to engage in back-and-forth conversation. The...
Holy bejeebus--it's been a long time since I've written a blog on here, or anything for that matter. My Gamespot production has been rather slow (Space Invaders Extreme 2 and Undead Knights being my only two reviews in the last few months) and I've barely written anything for Trigames.NET aside from an admittedly middling God of War: Chains of Olympus review. Work has been weird, though, having...
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is quickly growing on me, but first thing's first... For some reason, according to @Edubuccaneer, the RSS feed is poop. If anyone's experiencing problems please let me know what they are. Al and I combed through the feed and couldn't find anything wrong with it! Sad face. In any case, you know where you can directly download Episode 142, but just in case you don't: ht...
Whew! Many hecticness over the last few weeks. The podcast is not dead, and we're recording this Saturday, which means throw your questions and comments over to mailbag AT trigames DOT net . Even though we haven't recorded a traditional episode in a while, we've christened Pete's hour-plus-long trilobyte as Episode 141 because there's enough in there to qualify as a full episode. The RSS is upd...
I didn't treat it too kindly in the review after all, which is a little bit of a disappointment because I was enjoying parts of it. The obvious answer is that Monster Hunter fans really have no reason to not buy Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. But then, said fans would probably have already pre-ordered the game and bought it regardless of any Metacritic score, so the review would be useless to th...
I came home with The Conduit today, and after spamming a bunch of Gathering missions in Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, I decided to give this much bally-hooed Wii first-person shooter a whirl. Quick, bulleted impressions: + Great control options. This is pretty much a known quantity going in, what with all the previews talking about High Voltage Software's dedication to customization. I like thi...
But thankfully I did not. I just defeated my first boss (denoted by an "Urgent Mission!" Tag) in Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. Now that I'm making headway, the game isn't so abhorrent anymore. I still agree with Joe Dodson that the combat is weak but I am upgrading it from "awful" to "not good." In any case, the game came out yesterday, and if you like Monster Hunter I see no reason why you wou...
DISCLAIMER : I should probably note that playing a game for review and playing a game for your own entertainment are two very different things. The reason why I am disclaiming this should be apparent from the post below, but I just wanted to clear that up. Part of our job is to review a game keeping in mind that the average player is not going to marathon through a game to meet a deadline, nitp...
I've determined that I'm too old, and that my job requires me to wake up too early, to keep doing this. What's "this"? Staying up all night imbibing liquors and spirits. Yeah. Taking midday naps when there's a lull, instead of trying to find stuff to do, is not a good sign, but luckily I work from home on Fridays... hmmm. The podcast sound files are messed up. AGAIN. I've been struggling to try...
I took a quick break from Dokapon Journey--which I have a lot of fun with--to sample Punch Out!! on Wii, which arrived in my hungry mailbox today. It's really a whole lot of fun. I love the little aesthetic touches that the developers have made to the fighters when they're bruised, as well as to the music for each person; for instance, the "Game Over" screen music from the NES version now serve...
Went down to Atlanta this weekend to visit my best friend and his newborn son. Hence, no podcast. Still please send in mail though for next week (mailbag AT trigames DOT net), and enjoy these random baby (and non-baby) pics. Nephew gives the thumbs up to the superior Uncle because, truly, I am better than everyone seeing this blog; baby said so--don't challenge it. Mom + Small Person + fearsome...
Oh, and just for good measure...
I don't know if the Gint Bum will mind that I post my vid from "that other site" (if you do, admins, just shoot me a PM and I'll try to edit it down to fit into a 10-min youTube :P), but yeah -- evidence that Dragonball Evolution can, in fact, be beaten with a single button (square). Or, at least, that you can get through the first few fights on the hardest difficulty with a single button.
Gamespot sent me Lux-Pain to review, and boy is it shit. The review's been up but I still have some gold that I took from the game in the form of AWFULY TRANSLATE DIALOUGE. Boy howdy is that translation terrible. So terrible, in fact, that I felt compelled to updated the Gint Bum page for the game with the various misspellings and grammatical errors I found. Let's hope it makes it in!!!! But ju...
OnLive -- the new tech unveiled at GDC that will let you stream games from a server to your cozy house without any bulky console hardware or child-threatening, razor sharp discs -- sounds insanely awesome up front. If what they claim is true -- that there will be minimal lag impacting your gameplay experience -- the technology really could give consoles a run for their money. Actually, could it...
Dear old-school RPG developers making games for the Nintendo DS, specifically those responsible for Dragon Quest IV: Chapters Of The Chosen... er... Ok, let me start again. Dear Arte Piazza, the studio which developed Dragon Quest IV: Chapters Of The Chosen for the Nintendo DS: Hi! You may have noticed that the Nintendo DS has a touch screen. This little technical marvel allows players to tap d...
Thanks to aspro73 for your Dissidia Potion entry! It was great. Everyone, the deadline is February 28th, 2009 at Noon. I'd like to answer edu's DQV question from my previous GS blog. After having read some reviews on the game, I can definitely say that I am looking forward to buying DQV -- even with my DQIV fatigue. My main problem is that the battle system never seems to offer any hook other t...
Quick note -- I dropped by Stitch before heading to my sister's belated Chinese New Year Drink To Get Drunk-fest and shared some words with Tina Sanchez and Garnett Lee from 1up.com (and a young, bright-eyed gamer named Ben). If you ever see the two holding court, don't be one of those shy people who hangs back and records video of them talking to fellow fans -- they're extremely friendly and w...
Not if you're me, at least. Allow me to ramble on about nothing and at no one in particular. I've made much about my insanely lengthy backlog. Every year, I manage to scoop up some of the top games for that particular year. Every year, I manage to barely finish any of them. In fact, the games I do end up finishing are from years past. Example? The only games I finished from 2008 are as follows:...
The instant Barack Obama was elected Preseident, I told Al that I was going to play 3 hours straight of this: Alas, I never got around to it. With President-Elect Obama's inauguration 40 minutes away, me in Pittsburgh, and my Wii resting quietly at home in New York under a layer of dust (I blame Steam and the excellence that is Half-Life 2), I will have missed my deadline. It just won't be the...
I took a trek to Circuit City today in order to see what the chaos would be like. Lucky -- or unlucky -- for me, I got there at precisely 6:45 PM, which was 15 minutes before the store was closing for the night. Go me, right? In any case, I whipped out my digital camera and took a few clips of what I was seeing. Unlike what I had heard from other blogs and such, and perhaps it's because people...
Last week, one of my coworkers was apparently recovering from strep throat. In addition, my friend Dave called his job to tell them he was sick last Wednesday -- something he almost never does. I saw Dave on Sunday during the premiere of 24 Season 7. So, either I caught whatever nastiness I have from him or I caught it from my coworker. Today, I called in sick, and I should have called in sick...
...I fear listing the details here for fear of overdoing it on the pimpology tip, but if you want a game out of my collection (caveat: I control the list! ^_^) hit me up a message somethin' somethin' or, well, you know where else I blog.
Holy be-jeezus, it's been a while since I logged in. I've been visiting the bomb every day as usual, but I simply neglected to actually click "Login" and blog. It's probably because subconsciously I realize I don't get that many clicks, and that's ok -- but when you don't get many responses, your motivation to post everywhere starts to slowly atrophy. Hell, I think it's been just as long since...
Are a game's positive reviews rendered moot because they were written right when the game in question was released? If you think this is a ridiculous sentiment, hold on just a bit while I recount my experience a few days ago. I was in my local Gamestop on Sunday, picking up a long-overdue copy of Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. Behind me in line was a couple waiting to pay for Fallout 3 for the Xbo...
Everything I do after work is going to take a serious turn for lower productivity. Podcast editing, finishing console games on my backlog, everything except for reviewing games and work that I have to take out of the office -- everything's going to turn out slower... because the NBA season for 2008-2009 has begun, and I couldn't be more excited. I can't wait for Phoenix to show how much better...
So I beat the last of the 8 robot masters last week. I decided to see if, using my knowledge, I could beat all 8 again within the confines of the remaining space in my digital camera. That is, approximately 57 minutes of camera time. My self-imposed rules: - no store visits - no looking at strategy guides to find weaknesses - no experimenting -- use the same strategies against the bosses that I...
When did this happen? Word needs updating -- the spell-checker since it still flags "judgement" as a misspelling.
Fir st off, no podcast this week. Schedules got all jumbled up -- it was Tony's birthday and anniversary (wish him happy birthday and anniversary via the mailbag - mailbag AT trigames DOT net) and both Al and I had some last-minute stuff come up. Which, frankly, is actually fine by me for the moment as I need to just take it easy this week after work instead of doing hardcore podcast-editing. M...
You know where it is. No blurb. Too tired. Had to study. Brain dead. Over 3 hours because we recorded without Al Saturday then he wanted to contribute so we did another one on Sunday and yeah I am so friggin' tired. No RSS til tomorrow. Go away. Oh yeah and unlike what we thought -- and what I say on the episode -- when we began, Alex Navarro won't be on this coming week so save your questions....
For as long as I've been writing about videogames -- as a fan, as a co-founder of a hobbyist site, and as a freelancer, counting all the way back to the days when I wrote terrible reader reviews for RPGamer while Paws was running things on that part of the site -- I've tried to remember to type the word "pixelated" and leave it at that. It's not a real word in the dictionary. It gets the red-li...
I'm captivated by Mega Man 9. See, I was expecting good old-fashioned nostalgia wrapped up in an entirely unfair bow, with the name on the gift tag reading "Cheap Cheap Cheap", an experience that I would indulge in for about an hour or two before admitting defeat and refusing to ever play again. Instead, so far I see extremely well-designed, very difficult but not unsurmountable levels which ea...
First thing's first: Trigames.NET Podcast episode 108 has been up for almost two days now, so if you don't know where to get it, download it from here . Those of you with Zune / iTunes should already have it in your RSS feed. If you want to read the blurb, you can get it here . Remember, there's still the homework of sending us your most horrible stories while playing online against ignorami. W...
A few key things that make me want to buy it: - Built-in web browser and functionality for downloading games and other Nintendo software directly to its internal storage, a la iPods and Zunes that connect to their music stores directly - Addition of the necessary SD slot to allow for photo / music storage -- can we maybe get some Virtual Console service on our DS??? - 3 megapixel camera -- but...
Some of you may dismiss this after seeing Michael Bay on this top ten list . I, for one, love that placement. But I'm sure all of you will like this sucker: Uwe Boll is ranked #5 out of the top ten worst directors working in Hollywood today. "Specializes in creating aimless, plot-less movies out of video games that have absolutely no business being made into movies..." Back to studying . Oh yea...
In the wake of Dean Takahashi's investigative report, I thought it'd be fun to hear and read out your red ring stories (MsCortana, I'm looking at you and your second broken Xbox in a row ). Those of you who haven't worn yourselves out sending such stories to other podcasts should take a minute and send yours over to mailbag AT!!! trigames DOT!!! net or use this form right here . Also, send in q...
After MUCH hassle and like 4 nights straight of editing. It's up .
Pop quiz, hotshot. Would you honor a publisher who, in exchange for your 49.99 wampum, handed you a completely DRM-free PC game on a silver platter? Recently I tested out the Early Access beta of Good Old Games (or, GOG for short -- http://www.gog.com ), a service that promises to deliver older PC games at a low cost, sporting compatibility with 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows...
We record tomorrow -- Saturday the 13th -- at 11:30AM. As mentioned previously, we're having special guest Ron B. from, well hell, I forgot to ask him his PR company's name, but they do some work for Capcom and EA. If you have a question for him, please send it as specified in this blog post .
So, here's some clarification on what Ron B. can and cannot answer on the podcast(if you're confused, see my last blog post): - He can talk about WHO his clients are. - He cannot talk about what they're currently working on. - He can't talk smack about his clients as if he were just one of us (obviously, since he's in P.R.). I've asked him if he can talk about the PR experience with products ou...
Trigames.NET Podcast episode 105 is up now. You can find it at the usual place . Instead of giving the blurb thistime, I'm going to take the room to make a special announcement for the podcast: one of my high school friends, Ron B., is now working for a PR firm that handles Capcom games, EA games, and gaming journo site Crispy Gamer (where Alex Navarro contributed a few reviews while he was fre...
L et me put this up front: While it falls way short of the greatness I had hoped for, I'm glad I took the time to experience Too Human. There are two main reasons for this: 1) I'm a huge fan of Eternal Darkness, a game that Silicon Knights and its father, Denis Dyack, worked on for the Gamecube. I'm also a fan, though nowhere near as big, of Blood Omen: The Legacy of Kain. Given these two title...
Too Human beated. Yeah. Detailed text thoughts on single player tomorrow during lunch, perhaps. For now: 3 out of 5, "Decent", Rent It, whatever you want to call it. That's my summary. EDIT: For those who are wondering, podcast will be uploaded tomorrow evening.
The time count is around 5 and a half hours. The biggest inconsistency for me is the combat. One instant, I'm enjoying the multiple air combos and double-stick finishers. The other instant, I'm yawning at the monotony of it all. Every time a skirmish starts, I get excited but inevitably end up leaning back and then getting tired of it. It's like an unrelenting sine wave. I don't yet fully under...
For the first time ever, I'm taking my Xbox 360 with me to work. It's been something many of my friends have suggested I do, ever since I participated Zaps' Guitar Hero League union on GS (now rebranded the Rock Heroes Union, run by GabuEx ). This came about because I had to bow out of a semi-finals round on account of it taking place during the week, when I was not at home with my 360. What's...
We have our regular news bucket going on for the Trigames.NET Podcast, but I thought it'd be nice to do a little throwback to the listener appreciation day episode we had a while back and ask what topics you guys want to hear us talk about. Bear in mind that we don't always get a chance to play the latest games, so "what do you think about [game name]" is probably not going to get a lot of airt...
Kid drops out of high school to pursue a career in Guitar Hero... but not Guitar Praise, the Christian rhythm game with its own plastic guitar! Will he resort to "doping" in order to beat the likes of those Jordan / Fire and Flames FCers, or will he just leave that to those in an Australian gaming league? Meanwhile, we discuss Denis Dyack's antics and what effect it has or may have, and listene...
If you listen to The Hotspot, watch G4's web content, listen to the Giant Bombcast and/or listen to IGN's Nintendo Voice Chat podcast, you might already have an inkling as to what this might be about. For the rest of you, here be the skinny: On top of all the controversy Denis Dyack has caused for his game, Too Human, now game reviewers are getting into the midst of things. G4's Kevin Pereira h...
Every time I introduce my friends to Rock Band or Guitar Hero, I find myself telling them, "Have you ever played guitar before? Well, it's like playing a real guitar. Kind of." Then I mentally flinch as I say that because, as all of you guitarists and string-instrument musicians know, it's not "just like" playing a real guitar. I'm suspecting that the some of the backlash I hear about, "Oh, it'...
Final Fantasy IV is one of my all-time favorite Japanese role-playing games. It was my first true console RPG, coming in the form of the altered-for-the-USA Final Fantasy II. While Final Fantasy VI vies for my favorite game of all time (that versus Metroid Prime; it depends on my mood), I'm more familiar with its predecessor. So, as I played through Final Fantasy IV for the DS, I made sure to k...
(Relatively) short one this week. Rock Revolution has some gutsy tracks. But come on -- Sk8r Boi? What? And by the way, IDG wants us to know that Fatal1ty is the "face" of E for All (er?), but Gabe and Tycho want us to know that Penny Arcade will curb stomp him if he even shows up at PAX. Al and Tony mumble over how to beat Phantasy Star II, which Tony is STILL playing. GameTap is being sold of...
As I start to remember the games I've sold back for store credit or eBay monies, I'll start jotting them down in der blogenheimer. Of course, I can't remember everything I've sold back but again -- it'll be a growing list. Here's part three of who-the-hell knows. Clicky the linky if you want to see parts one and two . Dedicated to the swath of launch-year garbage that polluted the DS's inaugura...
To quote us in this episode: we discuss the LACKLUSTER MESS that was E3. But only for a bit. We take questions about Giant Bomb, discuss Al's shrinking backlog, and even throw in some random movie and iPod rambling for almost no reason other than just 'cuz. Which is cool, you know, just... cuz. Yeah! Musical interludes courtesy of: The Red Wings - Final Fantasy IV (SNES / GBA / DS) The Minish T...
Yeah, no, Episode 101 isn't posted yet. It will be up tomorrow. In the meantime, send your questions / comments to the mailbag: MAILBAG at TRIGAMES dot NET . (As always, we almost certainly won't read anything NOT sent to the mailbag. So send it there.) I might have a hankering for discussing the Final Fantasy IV DS remake in detail, so that's just a warning for those who don't want things spoi...
As I start to remember the games I've sold back for store credit or eBay monies, I'll start jotting them down in der blogenheimer. Of course, I can't remember everything I've sold back but again -- it'll be a growing list. Here's part two of who-the-hell knows. If you want to see part one, HERE it is. Red Steel (Wii) - Does this really need any explanation? From using a poor man's Keanu Reeves...
As I start to remember the games I've sold back for store credit or eBay monies, I'll start jotting them down in der blogenheimer. Of course, I can't remember everything I've sold back but again -- it'll be a growing list. Here's part one of who-the-hell knows. Manhunt 2 (Wii) - I have to admit: Part of me wanted to buy Manhunt 2 because I was interested in seeing just how "terrible" it was tha...
Yadda yadda hundreth episode took way long to edit technical problems blah blah. We rattle through 100 items of... stuff. Worst games. Favorite moments. Significant industry moments. And stuff. Oh just listen to us talk nonsense in what is possibly the most aimless celebratory podcast in the univArse! But seriously -- we apologize for the long time coming. Files were messed up. Then files were...
Good news everyone /Hubert Farnsworth Well, good news for anyone who gives a rot about our podcast. It turns out that we don't need to re-record our 100th episode. However I still had some snags along the way, so only today can I actually get down to editing the thing hardcore. So hopefully you should see it up after this weekend. Is it worth waiting for? Well, it's just us rambling as we alway...
So much for quick standardization. Last week I commented briefly (or not-so-briefly, depending on how long a two-paragraph comment seems to you) about how Wii Motion Plus, a technology I personally find great, needs to be standardized and handled correctly lest it simply become wasted potential. Then I gave them credit for at least bundling it in with Wii Sports Resort, thereby automatically pu...
Thought bubble: Would it be stretching to call the vaporized Phantom console "ahead of its time"? I just read that THQ will be offering its catalog on GameTap , Turner Broadcasting's videogame digital distribution service. That includes Titan Quest , whose "Gold" version I had not two weeks ago purchased off of Steam for $20. Steam, for anyone who's been living under a rock, is Half Life develo...
I'm predestined to never climb out of this pit of quicksand. It's not so much that the backlog grows at an alarming rate but more that I keep doing things to put it on the backburner. Recently, I finished Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. It's a game I enjoyed quite a bit, though I found myself agreeing with some of Aaron's contentions -- namely that the cast of characters left me missing the peopl...
So as it happens, we've achieved combustion. Giant Bomb is up, and a whole bunch of my online friends have migrated like a flock of birds -- though through the grapevine I hear they won't be flying back after the winter is over. My "home bases" are still Gamespot (I mean, come on, they still cut me a freelancer check) and Chupporitos . Sadly, my limited attention span and nature as a creature o...