The following isn’t really a blog post. It’s an excerpt from an email conversation I had with some like-minded folk about the state and direction of gaming in the Indian…
Save us please! (Ridiculous save game systems in PC titles)
The musclebound psycho has no idea that I’m right above him. From the shadows, I watch with a smug expression as two of his gun toting buddies walk right towards the motion sensitive trap I set…
Mistaken identity: Why Dawn of War 2 is not an RTS title
Real time strategy games (RTS’s) have come along way. There was something inherently addictive about old school RTS titles like Age of Empires and the ridiculously popular Starcraft. The mecahnics…
Review: Left 4 Dead 2
It is a little known fact that 95.2% of all males above the age of 13 absolutely WANT a zombie apocalypse *. Why? Well, to our testosterone-flooded, Romero-fueled, eternally adolescent…
Review: Dragon Age Origins
I finished Dragon Age Origins last night. I should say that I finished playing Dragon Age Origins last night but I won’t. Why? Well, in the 75 hours that I…
Dragon Age Origins: First impressions
Finally got Dragon Age up and running on my system at home. Can’t play this thing at The Bunker as I keep getting interrupted. Here’s what I think so far…
L4D2 Demo: First impressions
I just went through the L4D2 demo a couple of times this morning. Felt like visiting an old friend. An old friend that’s had some cosmetic surgery and genetic modding…
What makes a great RPG?
Dragon Age will be hitting computers around the globe in a couple of hours. There have been a few reviews out already and the initial responses from the critics have…
They love us, they love us not : Does Infinity Ward actually care?
Man talk about mixed signals. Just last week, I was convinced that Activision / Infinity Ward really don’t care much for the PC community at all. And now, I end…
Modern Warfare 2 petition : just cause or hissy fit?
The L4D2 boy-cotters were a bunch of idiots. There. I said it. They were certainly passionate about what they felt, but they were still idiots. The original L4D was a…