Archive for November, 2007
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Nintendo Expands Marketing
Nintendo has been pigeonholed recently as a bastion for casual gamers, so in an effort to appeal more to hardcore players they’ve taken aim at the media’s current golden boy: the environment.
Greenpeace, some sort of hippie social club as far as we can tell, rated Nintendo a zero in their Guide to Greener Electronics. Do […]
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Not On Our Watch
It’s not that we don’t take our job as the defenders of America’s gaming borders seriously. On the contrary, there isn’t anything we take more seriously in the world, except maybe the AIDS epidemic in Africa, but that’s only because we’re such nice goddamn guys. We spend most of our thought and energy worrying about […]
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Tiny TV for Tiny People
In Japan over 4 million people have pre-ordered an attachment that allows the Nintendo DS to receive TV signals. What does Japan call the more than 4 million people who are excited about watching TV on a 3-inch screen? In America we’d call them retards, but in Japan? They probably just call them Japanese.
All 4 […]
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Where Do We Send the Pulitzer?
In IGN’s review of Mass Effect, the reviewer states:
Applying number ratings to a game like this doesn’t do it justice because there is no way you can ignore its technical flaws.
Almost immediately followed by:
I’m guessing, if not for the technical flaws, the game would have gotten a completely arbitrary score of 9.6. It’s so unjustice […]
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Can’t Knock The Hustle
After an interview with Gamasutra, I feel like I finally understand the true essence of Mike Wilson, co-founder of indie game publisher Gamecock and the now defunct GodGames. He succinctly summed it up when he said, “We’re street hustlers, you know?”
After I ran headfirst into a wall several times and finally hit a stud, […]
