Preorder Incentives for Final Fantasy XIII-2 Revealed

Preorder Incentives for Final Fantasy XIII-2 Revealed

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, preorder incentives seem to have become the norm and almost the rule when it comes to highly anticipated games. If you were considering preordering Final Fantasy XIII-2, then you may be interested in knowing that Square Enix has joined in on this joyous trend and has...

Gadgets are Evil: Barnes & Noble Nook 2.0

Gadgets are Evil: Barnes & Noble Nook 2.0

As you may remember, I absolutely love my Nook. As you also may remember, I had struggled to resist the NookColor, and I am proud to say that I have successfully not bought the NookColor. However, when the new Nook appeared in Barnes & Noble’s inventory right before E3, I knew resistance was...

News Haiku: GameStop Pulled OnLive Coupons from Deus Ex PC Games

News Haiku: GameStop Pulled OnLive Coupons from Deus Ex PC Games

Our favorite troll Pulled DX OnLive; but! not Steam from Portal 2. [Source: Game Informer (who is owned by GamesStop)] Please see GameStop’s response and have fun trolling it here.   Popularity: 1%...

The Zelda Experiment

The Zelda Experiment

If you’ve talked to me in the last week or seen my rants on Twitter, then you know that I’ve hit a massive wall-o’-frustration with Ocarina of Time 3D.  never played the original game back on the N64, because–as Blake would say–I’m old. The N64 released when I was in...

News Haiku: New Final Fantasy XIII-2 Screens

News Haiku: New Final Fantasy XIII-2 Screens

Check these new screens out. FFXIII-2 beauty Where the **** is Snow? Popularity: 1% [?]

Weekly Poll: What do you think of the PSN Pass?

Weekly Poll: What do you think of the PSN Pass?

The answers to last week’s poll pretty much went the way I thought: either you didn’t buy it or you were dissatisfied. Let’s move on to something else that may trigger additional dissatisfaction. Something like the PSN Pass. A week or so ago, it was leaked that Sony was looking into...

PSN Pass: Are We Really Back to This?

PSN Pass: Are We Really Back to This?

Well here we are again. It’s always such a pleasure. Remember when EA released their Pass? Oh how we laughed and laughed. Except no one was laughing. Under the circumstances, the industry is wrong. (And we all want this gone.) I’ve always been a big defender of most corporate decisions, because...

Weekly Poll: Did Duke Nukem Forever Do It For You?

Weekly Poll: Did Duke Nukem Forever Do It For You?

We all thought that the development time for Alan Wake was ridiculous, but nothing tops and will possibly ever top what we were waiting on for Duke Nukem Forever. Apparently Hell hath indeed frozen over and the Duke has graced us all with his presence over a decade later. I personally was not a fan of Duke...

Devil’s Advocate to Operation Rainfall

Devil’s Advocate to Operation Rainfall

My colleague Mike Miglacio discussed the roadblock that Nintendo placed in front of Operation Rainfall this week, and last night on the podcast, Blake, Ross, and I discussed Nintendo’s actions a little further. For those of you who deprive yourselves of listening to our podcast, Ross and I were the...

E3 Hands-On: Final Fantasy XIII-2

E3 Hands-On: Final Fantasy XIII-2

Final Fantasy XIII was one of those games that you either loved or hated. There never seemed to be a middle ground. With its upcoming sequel, Square Enix  seemed to hear and take into consideration a great number of complaints from the first game, and at the same time, kept many things exactly as they were...