First Impression: Super Mario Galaxy Super Mario. . .in Space For the past year, gamers have gobbled-up the Wii like they were Michael Moriarty at the Maker’s Mark distillery. However during this time, Wii owners have encountered mirages, instead of great first-party games. Twilight Princess was a great Gamecube game that really didn’t hit the … Continue reading
A year ago, I was sitting in my basement wondering what the hell I was doing. I was 48 hours from getting married and I was trying to figure out a good gaming joke. You see, one year ago I was submitting, what hopefully turns out to be the worst thing I will ever write, … Continue reading
Yesterday, I covered convention floor of the Video Game Expo, which you can read here. This part covers the panel discussions and the movie Moral Kombat. The first panel was the video game journalism panel, featuring “the Video Game Doctor” Bill Kunkel, Ray Ledda, VP of Ziff Davis and Susan Arendt of Wired’s Game|Life. There … Continue reading
It’s tough being a video game enthusiast living in the Northeast. Most of the video game conventions are on the West Coast, and the few shows that feature video games in the Northeast, like Digital Life* and the NY Comic Con, don’t come close to being true video game cons. After being disappointed by this … Continue reading
After a longer than expected vacation (quick question for all the Ohio State supporters out there, is there some sort minimum weight requirement? Seriously, lose 100 lbs., immediately.) I’m back in the saddle. Not so Solid on the release date One of the great joys of playing video games in my younger years was being … Continue reading
The week in video games: First Impression – The Orange Box: Half-Life 2 It may come as a shock, but I’m not a PC gamer. Growing up in a Mac family, I turned to the consoles for my gaming needs. I didn’t even own a PC (which is the same one I use today) until … Continue reading
Here’s some news and rants, while you’re driving that Elephant: First Impression – The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass While it’s a very fine game, Windwaker was not my favorite Zelda game. I never had a problem with the gameplay, but the combo of the graphics, sound and story, really never appealed to me. As … Continue reading
Originally, I thought it would be funny to completely ignore Halo and just write about the other gaming news of the week. But after going through the complete wasteland that is non-Halo news, I realized that it was impossible. So then I thought that I would do a normal column, news, rants and cock jokes. … Continue reading
Gaming news and views, in the round: First Impression: Heavenly Sword A few months back, the Bit Players gave the rundown of our most anticipated games for the second half of 2007. One game we briefly mentioned was Heavenly Sword. Not much was known, except that it was like God of War and the hero was … Continue reading
I was all ready to do a first impression piece about Heavenly Sword, but due to a combination of work, the GameStop by my office ordering about two copies, the Circuit City in Livingston, NJ (which is the official electronics store of the fourth circle of hell) not ordering any copies and the Best Buy near me … Continue reading