Yesterday, I had a sit down with a very rare species – a female video game producer. Meghan Morgan is the producer on the brand new Activision title, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. She gave us a walkthrough of the the game and some tidbits. Here’s what I learned from our 1/2 hour discussion: The game’s plot […]
Category: Video Games
Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package Has Landed and Blew Up XBox Live
Activision released their Modern Warfare 2: Stimulus Package today. So hurray, no more “Mapathy.” On the downside they are charging a ridiculous $15 for 5 Maps – two of which we’ve already played to death in Modern Warfare 1. But I do love me some Crash. Not only that but people are reporting that this […]
Netflix Instant Streaming Now on the Wii
Netflix’s Instant Streaming Discs are arriving in people’s mailboxes this week. I know a lot of folks think that streaming Netflix on the Wii is pointless because it’s not an HD platform, but really I can’t remember the last time I received an HD Stream from Netflix and I have a Fios Fiber Optic connection. […]
Rock Band Gets Hendrix!
Looks like Sony is moving quickly to make their newly acquired Jimmy Hendrix music catalog start paying off. They have inked a deal to bring Hendrix, who was previously on Guitar Hero over to Rock Band in form of the Album – Axis: Bold As Love. It will be added next week to the Rock […]
Planet MiniGolf coming to PSN this Spring
It’s pretty amazing that out of all the casual games available for the PSN and XBLA there’s only one MiniGolf game (on XBLA) and that game is over two years old. I regularly check and am always disappointed not to find a decent MiniGolf game. The folks at Zen Studio the folks behind Zen Pin […]
250 Gig Hard Drive now Available for Xbox 360
My X-box 360 now only has 50 Gigs of space left on it. I for the life of me can’t tell what’s taking up so much space on my 120 Gig HD now after years of delay Microsoft has finally released a stand alone 250 Gig HD for the X-Box 360. The price of $129 […]
PlayStation’s Motion Controller Gets an Official Name
Sony has finally announced the official name of their motion controller and no it’s not the Arc! It’s the PlayStation Move. I’ve made it clear in the past that I hate motion controllers, when I’m ready to sit down and play a game I don’t want to sweat, or flail my arms around like a […]
VIDEO GAMES: Frakkin’ Sweet 3D Browser-Based Battlestar Galactica MMOG Coming Soon to a Colony Near You!
NBC Universal and Bigpoint announced today that an MMOG based on the cult hit TV series Battlestar Galactica will premiere this fall with an exclusive, worldwide launch on Syfy.com. Bigpoint, the global leader in Massively Multiplayer Online Games will be demonstrating what they call the next generation of client-free gaming at Game Developers Conference 2010. […]
IPHONE GAMES: Battle of Puppets
Recently I was sent a copy of iPhone App game “Battle of Puppets” to take for a spin. Even though I rocked my Atari 2600 back in the day, today I’m not much of a gamer but I do love my iPhone and will add a free game from time to time so I figured […]
COMIC BOOKS/GAMES: The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade – How Two Guys Went From Web Comic Creators To Moguls While Trying To Avoid Any Kind Of Work!
The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade is, like its writers, Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, many things. It is an autobiography of the writers; a chronicle of how posting a web comic strip back in 1998 led to a company that publishes the web comic; has set up a multi-million dollar charity, and created the […]
You Guys Love Some Bejeweled! Over 50 Million Sold in 10 years.
I’ll admit it, I’m now getting addicted to playing Bejeweled on my iPhone. Apparently I’m not the only one, the game is celebrating it’s 10th year anniversary and has sold over 50 million copies on various platforms worldwide. Pop Cap Games, the makers of Bejeweled is going to celebrate throughout 2010. PopCap will introduce new […]