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God of War Review
Ok so I just wrapped playing God of War on my new PS3, and the final take is: Freaking awesome. Even though this game is a PS2 game and looks a little dated, especially on larger HDTV sets, the game play and effects that you do so are so well done and so exciting that you [...]
Continue reading...Dead Rising Review
Thursday, February 22, 2007
I know what you are thinking… it’s impossible to go wrong with a game that has something like THAT in it… well you are mostly right, but a lot of people think you are wrong. Let’s have a look… Dead Rising is Capcom’s mall-horror-survival game that came out soon after the XBox 360 came out. I [...]
Continue reading...Wii: Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess Review
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
First let me prefix everything by saying I’m the type of guy that likes Gears of War on the XBox 360. I think Crysis looks awesome, WoW was a fantastic game but I always wished the graphics had looked more like Guild Wars and I don’t own a DS or plan on getting one and [...]
Continue reading...Wii: Rayman Raving Rabbids Review
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
For those that don’t want to read the whole thing: Score: 6/10 Now, why did I rate it this way? First off the ENTIRE THING is mini games, even though there is a Story mode, I noticed that waiting for the worthless cutscenes and the “cell” that you are in between rounds actually gets in the way [...]
Continue reading...Team Fortress 2 Trailer
Saturday, September 2, 2006
Team Fortress 2 was always the much-waited for sequel to the hit team-based combat HL1-modification Team Fortress. The whole idea of team-based online combat was reshaped with the release of Team Fortress (It started as a hit Quake modification) but a sequel was never released. Right around the time Team Fortress 2 was suppose to [...]
Continue reading...No 1080p on Low-End PS3, High-End PS3 Doesn’t Include HDMI Cable
Saturday, September 2, 2006
Since we are on a roll today covering PS3 news, Wired Blogs covered information confirmed from Sony that the low-end PS3 (the one that only has component-out) will not be able to display 1080p Movies/Games. In fact only the high-end PS3 will allow that over it’s HDMI connection, unfortunately the high-end bundle does not come [...]
Continue reading...Heavy Rain, PS3
Saturday, September 2, 2006
Update #1: Quantic Dream, creators of Heavy Rain, have released quite a bit more information about the title, screenshots and in-game footage. Head on over here to check it out. This is a game that I would buy a PS3 just to have. For those of you that played this studios hit title Indigo Prophecy (called [...]
Continue reading...PS3, Should We be Excited or Not?
Saturday, September 2, 2006
Just saw an excellent summary from OUSanbornEE on why the PS3 is going to have problems, let’s have a look: 1) RSX is downgraded by 10% speed 2) Sony president admits that PS3 production hasn’t begun 3) IBM notes that the yields of the CELL are very very low 4) Recent blue laser shortages, even for Sony 5) Crysis developers [...]
Continue reading...Crysis Primarily a PC Title, “Next-Gen” Consoles not Powerful Enough
Monday, August 28, 2006
TeamXBox is reporting that after speaking with the Cyrsis developers (Crytek) it looks like Crysis will be a PC/Windows-Vista title as DirectX 10 will be shipping with Windows Vista and not available on the current XBox 360 or upcomming Playstation 3. If you haven’t gotten a chance and possibly doubt this, take a few minutes [...]
Continue reading...PAX, Day 3
Sunday, August 27, 2006
For those of you not farmiliar with PAX, it is the Penny Arcade Expo and is poised to become the replacement for E3. My friend, Laurence Hartje, has gone to PAX and is reporting on it for us: Day three was much calmer (I think everyone was recovering from two previous sleep deprived days…) Two guys were [...]
Continue reading...PAX, Day 2
Sunday, August 27, 2006
For those of you not farmiliar with PAX, it is the Penny Arcade Expo and is poised to become the replacement for E3. My friend, Laurence Hartje, has gone to PAX and is reporting on it for us: 8:00 am fucking sucks when you went to bed at 3:30 am the same morning… with that happy [...]
Continue reading...PAX, Day 1
Sunday, August 27, 2006
For those of you not farmiliar with PAX, it is the Penny Arcade Expo and is poised to become the replacement for E3. My friend, Laurence Hartje, has gone to PAX and is reporting on it for us: PAX 2006 started off about 30 minutes late, but it started off with a bang. The first talk [...]
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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