In high school, I would read pc gaming magazines like a mofo, reading reviews about games my 486 66 Mhz PC could never play in 1999 (no, that's not a typo). Out of these, the cream of the crop was Computer Gaming World, a magazine with suc...

Based on king3vbo's advice, I decided to give Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic a second spin on the 360. I have enjoyed some BioWare games in the past, particularly Icewind Dale, but found the quests on the first planet of KOTOR a bi...

Growing up as a skinny nerd, one of my favorite things to do was to play Star Wars games. Back then, there were good titles: X-Wing(tm): Alliance(tm), Super Empire Strikes Back(tm), and Dark Forces(tm): Jedi Knight(tm). As the prequels go...

Long time no blog--working full time and going to night school kind of does that to you sometimes. Regardless, like a dork, I woke up at 1:30 AM this morning to purchase a remake of a game that holds a very special place in my heart: Bioni...

Too Human is an upcoming 360 game in the Diablo vein that has received its fair share of controversy. After an arduous development period lasting nearly a decade, a demo of the game is up for grabs. A crafty narrative blend of Norse my...

With the recent Dark Knight movie coming out, my memories drifted to one of the first SNES titles I owned--Batman Returns, a Final-Fight clone featuring the Caped Crusader himself. Apart from a few Batmobile levels, the game features an ...

So after some procrastination and a realization that my upcoming Paralegal night school program is going to slice into my gaming time like a hot knife through Hot Pockets, I sat down and finished off Metal Gear Solid 4 late last week. Read...

So I've had a 80 GB MGS 4 PS3 Bundle since it was released and I still haven't quite finished the game. When it comes to beating games, I have a terrible track record. To put insult to injury, I've never beaten a Metal Gear Solid game des...

It was the middle of the summer of 1991 in Centreville, Virginia. I would often wait around the house for a friend to show up so we could play Nintendo in the basement. Despite having a lack of two player games, we had fun with taking t...

I was just messing around with the free demo of the Spore Creature Creator and came up with this little creature: Quandorium. The Creature Creator is a lot of fun, but I have no idea how the full game of Spore will be. Regardless, it is...

There had been others before--the wakka-wakka sounds from Ms. Pac-Man, the stunning drama of pixelated manga cut-scenes from Ninja Gaiden, and the futile attemps of having Mario survive a dip in the ocean with some Cheep-Cheeps from Super M...

With my recent PlayStation 3 purchase, I decided to venture into the limited pool of demos for the system and decided to give the demo of the much-hyped Pixel Junk Monsters a whirl. While it has a few neat spins on the web-based classic, i...

Back in middle school, a friend of mine gave me a copy of the original DOS versoin Civilization for the PC. The turn-based gameplay was Sim City mixed with turn-based wargaming and took a while to learn, but was fun once you finally got in...

Before embarking on a recent vacation to St. Simons Island, GA, I swung by the local Gamestop to pick out a new portable game to keep me entertained on the flight: Warriors Orochi for the PSP. It is a good deal more enjoyable than one might...

Blizzard recently has slapped up 3 of their classic titles for digital download via their online store: The Starcraft Legacy (Starcraft + Brood War expansion), Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, and Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (WC 3 expansio...

Word association is a funny thing-the results might be predictable, but every once in a while something jumps out of the blue. Pizza: pepperoni. X-Men: Wolverine. Casual games: zombies? The Last Stand 2, a free Flash game, manages to be an ...

The concept of Gamefly has so much promise-- it's the Netflix of videogames. With videogame rental prices at around $6 a pop, one thinks such a service would be useful. Too bad that Gamefly has failed to meet my expectations for one reason:...

Patapon Patapon has been widely considered one of the best games out there for the PSP, so I decided to give it a whirl. Despite charming graphics, unique Real-Time Strategy meets Taiko Drum Master gameplay, and clever localization, Patapo...

On my second week of Gamefly I tried out two PSP titles. One was a lot of fun and the other was tedious but funny. Mega Man: Powered Up (PSP) Few people have played the original Mega Man for the NES. It is arguably one of the harder game...

In an effort to save money and enjoy more video gaming on a variety of systems, I have decided to try out Gamefly. Here are my brief impressions of two titles I've tried recently. Mass Effect (360) - Having detailed character creation in ...

After the success of Final Fantasy VII on the PSX, Square decided to continue riding the sci-fi train with Final Fantasy VIII. This time around the main character was Squall, a mute asshole who clumsily dealt with light flirtations from a g...

WARNING--Lots of Spoilers ahead?!?! Crisis Core is a game which improves by leaps and bounds once you complete the first "real mission" of the game and get access to a lot of side missions. Completing these are nice if you want to grind or...

My first hour into Final Fantasy 7-Crisis Core for the PSP is fairly positive. Some random thoughts. SPOILER WARNING!? -- Zack is an upbeat main character who just wants to be a hero in SOLDIER. This is a surprise for a sci-fi themed Fina...

This is it, the moment I've been waiting for. Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core is piping hot in my hands, ready to slide into the PSP. Is it going to be a fun spin-off or is it going to be a Dirge of Cerberus? I'm going to try to do an hour ...

A few months ago, a good friend of mine was raving about how fun Bully was on the PS2. Recently, I had a decent amount of store credit at Gamestop and decided to use it towards the recent port for the 360: Bully: Scholarship Edition. To my ...

So I was trudging through a brief rainstorm in Portland, OR on Friday and decided to hop inside of a Carl's Jr. to wait it out for a bit. A new item on their menu beckoned me with its strangeness: the Captain Crunch Milkshake. As I was slu...

I'm fairly new to the world of 360 gaming online with the headset, but I am continued to be amazed at what I hear. While some of it is chock full of homophobic racists, other times it is filled with strange conversations that amuse or puzzl...

This is a short video I edited together of Pacfic Dick (LostCrichton, king3vbo, Toneman, and I) playing a cover of Missippi Queen with Rock Band at a Rock Band night at Ground Kontrol in Portland, Oregon. Since I videotaped it with my ol...

So this past Tuesday, Toneman, LostCrichton, king3vbo, and myself went to Ground Kontrol, a 2 story retro-arcade/bar in Portland, Oregon. Every Tuesday nights they have a Rock Band set-up that is pretty sweet and not unlike karaoke, except ...

This past weekend I had a party with some friends and we watched one of the more recent films in Uwe Boll's ouvre, Bloodrayne 2: Deliverance. Take a dash of vampires, a dollop of wild wild west, and a sprig of random pig squeals, then bake ...