Tweet I review books as well as video games. A book takes me about 5 hours, maybe less, to play through it. I don’t ever get stuck in a particularly tough boss chapter section where either my skills or the book’s design prevent me from moving forward. I watch movies, too. I can imagine that...

Tweet This week, I was planning on playing my copy of Resistance 2: Fall of Man. But then, as part of the gaming hype machine, I saw the Catwoman trailer for the new Arkham City game. I suddenly felt like playing Arkham Asylum. Am I that easily influenced? Yeah, I guess I am. However, in my defense, Arkham...

Tweet UPDATE: I just got an email from MadCatz, offering a replacement dongle, in response to an email I sent them last week. Great job, MC! This week, I spent too much time NOT playing games. Honest, I tried. Last week, I spent some time with Enslaved and found it to be not as bad as I thought when I had...

Tweet Oh, hey there! We were just checking out the new Sumer of Raptr giveaway going on over at Raptr Prizes include: Grand Prize: One copy of each of the 20 most talked about games of E3 2011 + 3 Consoles 1st Place Prize: Custom Built Ultimate Gaming Desktop PC Individual Prizes (Over 100 Winners):...

Tweet If you’re a gamer, and you’re on Twitter or Facebook, we’re pretty sure you’ve seen Raptr, a gaming aggregation service that collects your playtime from your console accounts and puts them all in one easy to access place. Well, Raptr has a new bag: a personalized feed for each...

Tweet Enslaved: Odyssey to the West – a game that was hyped, then panned, by a majority of the sites I frequent. This is a game I actually bought, which may sound odd, but as a game reviewer, I get many of my games for review sent to my by the publishers themselves. This can lead to a bit of...

Tweet I have too many damn games. I also just bought a house and am slowly turning it into a home. Part of that transformation lies in setting up the consoles. Part of setting up the consoles is connecting them to the TV, putting the controllers next to the consoles, and, of course, putting the games in a...

Tweet According to this tweet, and as reported on the Unknown Gamer blog, Magicka, the new sensation from Paradox, is getting PvP. As soon as they finish up the Magicka: Vietnam expansion, they’ll be putting out the player vs player additions. According to Shams Jorjani, Magicka’s...

Tweet I was lucky enough to get to spend a little bit of time with this upcoming PSN release at GDC this year, and here we are, almost at release time! The guys from Hothead Games were very kind and showed me how this game worked; even gave me a little hands on time, as well. Swarm features little blue...

Tweet The 3rd Birthday is an upcoming (March 29, if reports are to be believed) 3rd person shooter action RPG developed for the PSP by Square Enix and Hexadrive. It is the third game in the Parasite Eve series, coming after the 2000 release of Parasite Eve 2. It was released in December of last year in...