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01.05.09 by Widge @ 8:00 am Yes, I know, but we are coming off of a long holiday, so you probably need double the normal amount of sorbet we would have for you. Here's some sort of dance/sparring/something at the 1995 E3 presentation of Doom; the original video poster says this was their announcement of porting the game to the "Playstation, SNES, and Ultra 64." Direct link for the feedreaders. Another dance craze after the break. Categorized as: Games
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12.11.08 by Doc @ 3:36 am  At two weeks out or so, depending on your holiday persuasion, time is growing increasingly short for any gift acquisitions still left on your list. Thoughts of circling the mall parking lot for an hour or more looking for a space fly through your brain, and the crush of similarly lackadaisical shoppers elbowing for space in the aisles and at the checkout line haunts your dreams. Got a gamer on your list? Got several? Then look no further. Uncle Ez will hook you up with some excellent leads that will please most any gamer and won't break the bank. That's because I have a secret, and I'm here to share it with the huddled, confused shopping masses yearning to breathe free of canned Christmas muzak. The secret is: the best way to acquire kickass gameage for your favorite console jockey or WASD wizard is to buy no games at all. Better yet, you can make most of the purchases from the spot where you are currently sitting and without putting on pants (unless you read the site from work, in which case I suspect -- read "hope" -- you had to put on pants to get there...but I digress). Categorized as: Games
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11.29.08 by Widge @ 5:25 pm  I've been a frustrated gamer for all my life, as I've mentioned on here numerous times. So I won't mention the story of my attempt to play, out of desperation, Star Frontiers with my grandmother. Or the fact that the last video game I played all the way through is Myst. I fell back on board games, trying to destroy all competitors in stuff like Monopoly, and marveling at house versions of games like Risk--I was very impressed when the neighbor's uncle created one that introduced nukes to the game. BibliOdyssey goes back--way back--to show us interesting games. Like a proto-Risk entitled "Russia versus Turkey." Or a British propaganda version of what looks like it could be "Chutes and Ladders," but with guns. See the full post here. Anybody know where you can find rules for some of these? Categorized as: Games
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10.08.08 by Oblique Red @ 2:51 am  
US Release Date: September 2, 2008 Infinite Unsatisfaction Infinite Undiscovery is a Japanese action JRPG brought to you by Square Enix (the company that brings us Final Fantasy and thus the reigning god of JRPGs) and tri-Ace (the developer behind a number of well-received series including Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile), which is why I picked it up in the first place. The game promises an engaging storyline, beautiful graphics, a seamless real-time battle system that encourages strategic thinking, a vast number of characters, and other goodies. From the blurb, the fantastic cover art, and the absolutely stunning animation that plays over the opening screen, it's very exciting. This, you think as you pick up your controller, is going to be AWESOME. And then you start to play. And all your hopes and dreams for the next 30-40 hours of your game-playing life come tumbling down. Categorized as: Games and Reviews
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10.06.08 by Oblique Red @ 11:05 pm 
US Release Date: June 22, 2008 Concept The Guitar Hero juggernaut rolls to handhelds with this title for the Nintendo DS. Best Thing Ever, or are they milking the cash cow a leeeetle too hard? Sight and Sound I would like to give a detailed review of the graphics, but unfortunately I can't, because when I play a Guitar Hero game my eyes must remain unswervingly fixed on the scrolling note indicators lest chaos ensue. So as for the in-song graphics, I can tell you that the scrolling note indicators scroll smoothly and are easy to read. The few glimpses I caught of the performance animations out of the corners of my eye seemed fine - fairly standard for the GH games and the DS system. Nothing to write home about, but not disappointing either. Categorized as: Games and Reviews
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