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Drew a Conclusion: You Don�t Know Jack HD

Those who find themselves drawn closer to the Saturday Night Live rendition of Celebrity Jeopardy, replete with the surly visages of Sean Connery and Burt Reynolds, than Trivial Pursuit will, odds are, have played Jellyvision�s You Don�t ...

 
 
 
 

Did LulzSec Leak Your Data?

While we could all argue between the righteousness and asshatery of what LulzSec, an off-shooting branch of Anonymous, has been up to lately, I think if there is one lesson to take away from recent events is that we should all be very, ve...

 
 
 
 
 
 

Drew a Conclusion Review: Paper Wars HD

Once in a long while, there comes a game for an otherwise obtuse device that proves it capable of appealing to a community many would have initially suspected it was incapable of performing said task. For the iPad, titles like World of Go...

 
 
 
 

Drew a Conclusion: Pulse

Music is always one of the few genres of games that have either been significantly underappreciated by a majority of the gaming community or created assembly line style only to be run into the ground by money hungry publishers. Pulse seem...

 
 
 
 

E3 Approaches: Microsoft, A Potential Stumble

Watching Microsoft demonstrate what the world could expect from them, gaming-wise, between now and the next E3 is always an interesting proposition. For some, it�s fodder for their fan boy fueled hatred, while others discover it to be vin...

 
 
 
 

Mini-Games: A Torrid Affair

It was an unusually warm spring day as my brother, grandfather and I packed into a Champaign-colored Buick setting out on a road trip down to Florida to spend a week of spring break with family. Being nine, I had little interest in the sc...

 
 
 
 

XBLA Review: Scrap Metal

Fifteen years ago a small company called SingleTrac began designing a game that would be the delicious brainchild of the ever irrepressible David Jaffe and Scott Campbell and would change how we looked at racing and combat as video game g...

 
 
 
 

Toy Soldiers: A Surprise Attack of Fun

World War I was incorrectly labeled as, �The War to End All Wars�, but rightly so. It was when all the various technologies emerging at the turn of the century suddenly became used for warfare and while history buffs might find that fact ...

 
 
 
 

Casual is the New 'Hardcore'

Gamers born in the 1980s have, for most of their lives, been playing electronic games as they�ve evolved into what we have today. While many abhor the use of labels to players such as �casual� or �hardcore�, they still persist regardless....

 
 
 
 
 
 

Why I Game - Part I

We all have our reasons for gaming. Some play to escape the drudgery of an otherwise stressful day. Others might play because they want to enjoy the game as a work of art. Many do it just for the fun of it. But for me, I was raised on it fo...

 
 
 
 

Top 10 Games of the Decade

Fair warning: This is a video intensive post. Enjoy I sincerely believe that while technical achievement and graphical eye candy are all well and good, the thing that stands out succinctly best is when a game is genuinely fun. As artsy as ...

 
 
 
 

Alien Breed Evolution Quite Entertaining

There are few times when a Xbox Live Arcade Game has been genuinely able to make me jump when a twinge of fear hits me, however Alien Breed Evolution did it repeatedly. Surrounded by human corpses and under siege as multiple alien creatur...

 
 
 
 

A Belated Top 10 Games of 2009

10. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Dispensing with the original formula of base building, Dawn of War II took the stance of kicking ass without having to hunker down first to do it. Taking the role of the silent Space Marine Commander,...

 
 
 
 

My PS3 Love Affair, Round Two

So, I had a Playstation 3 for a while. It was a saucy little number touting its sweet little 40 GB hard drive. We had our torrid love affair much to the dismay of my Wii and Xbox 360, but in the end, it wasn�t meant to be. After waiting w...

 
 
 
 

First Thoughts - Gratuitous Space Battles

Real-time Strategy has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. Ever since I got my first taste of Warcraft 2, I've been hooked and haven't looked back. Cut to the summer of this year as Positech Games releases Gratuitous Space Battles. Tak...

 
 
 
 

When Digital Downloads Go Bad

It seems that there was a little speed bump amongst all the joy of the annual Steam sale. The Consumerist reports that all Ario wanted to do was gift his brother a game via the digital download client, but what happened is a bit more conv...

 
 
 
 
 
 

Video Dissection: Heavy Rain

As a quick warning, this post contains a significant amount of pictures, thank you and on to the feature presentation. While anxiously biding time until Heavy Rain falls upon us, I've been checking out as much as I can about the game. ...

 
 
 
 

Top 10 Developers for the Xbox 360

Let�s face it, without developers; the 360 would just be nothing more that a sweet paperweight that you could watch DVDs on if you were so inclined. But being the technical powerhouse that it is as a system and having the library of games i...

 
 
 
 

Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming Review

Growing up, I never really got into the Harvest Moon titles because the suggestion of farming was always eclipsed by my blatant desire to kick tons of ass and save one world or another from the threat of complete annihilation. When Harves...

 
 
 
 

Puzzle Quest Galactrix Review

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords was perhaps one of the best titles to ever make its way into the hands of gamers; unfortunately the same cannot be said for its follow-up title. Puzzle Quest Galactrix from Infinity Interactive gave...

 
 
 
 

New Darksiders Trailer Reminds Us War Is A Horseman

A warrior, even a Horseman of the Apocalypse, is nothing without a mighty steed to carry him into battle. Sure, we could go on and on about video game characters that don't have a horse, but we could relate it any which way. Kratos rode P...

 
 
 
 

Top 10 Classic Xbox Arcade Live Titles

I have chosen for the sake of this list to separate Indie titles from developer titles as it would be relatively unfair to put some up against others. So, with that said, let�s begin. 10. Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 Simple and utt...

 
 
 


About AndrewG009one of us since 1:33 PM on 07.28.2009

"I kind of miss the days when games were judged on their game-playing merit alone. I'm a little concerned about how far we (the game industry) are into the licensed four-page-ad marketing blitz era these days, which may be a natural evolution of the industry. But I'm always worried when we put more emphasis on glitz and production values than on the game. That's a trend that looks good for a while until you realize there's no game industry any more. If we don't have gameplay, we can't really compete with other forms of entertainment because we can't do graphics as good as the movie industry and we can't make sounds as well as the recording industry. All we can do that's special to us is be interactive. So we have to hang on to that and make sure we do a good job." - Sid Meier


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