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Saturday, March 29th, 2008I have (finally) updated the review criteria for single player games. I didn’t mean for it to take so horrendously long, but I sort of forgot I was setting it up and it fell past the back burner.
I do have a particular game in mind for my first review which should, at the latest, be […]
Censorship Hypocrisy; Games vs Movies
Monday, October 29th, 2007In a recent gamesindustry.biz editorial Johnny Minkley discussed the grand hypocrisy and controversy surrounding the British Board of Film Classification presently. A rather commonly known story by now; The BBFC refused to give a rating to Manhunt 2, even after the game was revised and reapplied for rating. Effectively this means that the game, […]
Single Player Review Criteria
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007Returning from my Hiatus, that was quite frankly, equatable almost equally to my PS2 than it was to school, I decided I should at least be somewhat productive and write up reviews for some of the games I was playing. However, my review criteria written up previously were crafted specifically for the MMORPG genre so […]
Starcraft II Announced!
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007The people at Blizzard have finally announced that they’re making a new starcraft. It’s going to have updated graphics, new units, all kinds of new abilities for the units and a kickin’ new storyline. There isn’t too much information out yet, but if you hop over to IGN they have a good article about it.
They […]
Censorship of Videogames
Friday, April 27th, 2007Earlier today I attended a Xfire debate on censorship of videogames. As usual, they had an interesting cast of guests at the debate.They were:California State Senator Leland YeeHal Malpin from the ECADennis McCauley from Gamepolitics.comRuss Pitts from Escapist MagazineDan Isett from the Parents Television CouncilAnd Henry Lowood from Stanford University.
A prettty “reputable” group of people […]
EA Teams with TV People to Make Virtual Me
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007EA and reality TV show maker Endemol have made an announcement that they’re going to be working together to make a hybrid videogame/TV show program called Virtual Me. It will allow users to create and customize little virtual avatars of themselves and then besides the usual chitchat with whoever random people you find, you can […]