Well, well, well.   That didn’t take long. We’ve all noticed a severe lack of activity from Nintendo on the Wii, contrary to Reggie’s promises about additional content before E3 in June. Nintendo’s Q2 lineup was released earlier this week to the typical groans and sighs of hardcore...

When we’re kids (especially under the age of ten), money doesn’t exist. There comes a point where we’re suddenly thrust into capitalist society and realize the value of a dollar, but for our first decade, our parents pretty much hold the keys to the endless kingdom of digital toys. A trip...

My thoughts on the rapid release of video games affecting gamers’ stacks of shame led me to another thought: how much does this affect used game sales and by proxy, the developers’ and publishers’ battle with used game outlets? Game devs and pubs have always snarled at the concept of...

A couple weeks back, Insomniac Games CEO Ted Price wrote a lengthy post on his blog responding to a story that broke earlier this week about some inflammatory statements he’d supposedly made. The reality behind the story was that some site or another picked a few choice quotes out of a much longer...

Fanboy-ism aside, I think everyone can admit that some major triple “A” franchises have jumped the shark, and just don’t know it. Yeah, I know that this article might be controversial, even among my fellow writers here at GrE. That being said, let’s discuss some of the franchises...

I learned a long time ago to ignore anyone who hailed the death of the PC. Surely by now, the PCs detractors have learned that the PC as a gaming platform is never really dead, it just evolves. Despite ample irrefutable evidence to the contrary, every year without fail someone wheels out the old chestnut:...

Begun in 2003 by Robbie Cooper, the Alter Ego Project chronicles photographic essays about people and their gaming avatars. Cooper says, “Most of us spend a huge amount of time in front of screens, at work and play. Research studies indicate that in the US, the average school age child spends around 4...

I hated the PlayStation 2. Despite the huge back catalogue of excellent titles like Shadow of the Colossus and Okami, the ease with which the developers could churn out endless volumes of shovelware left the games market flooded with so many badly made games that they threatened to eclipse the true classic...

I was talking on a recent Double Jump podcast with Michael Abbot, Carter Dotson,  and Trina Schwimmer about the violence in games like Modern Warfare 2, and how the level of realism brought the violent nature of the game home to me in a way many other violent games didn’t. One comment stuck in my...