Review Time! – Saitek Cyborg R.A.T. 7 Gaming Mouse
I was out and about and picked up the Saitek Cyborg R.A.T. 7 gaming mouse today. I know it’s been out for a while but I’ve never seen one out of the box or used one so I figured…why not?!
I put together a little video review which you can see after the jump.
Review Time! – Crysis 2 With Gameplay Video
Yeah…I bought it, I played it, I reviewed it.
Video after the jump.
Game Review: The Sims Medieval – With Gameplay Video
Good den, my ladies and lords. What thy are about to witness is a review of the stand alone Sims game simply known as The Sims Medieval. Spouting it’s fresh new gameplay mechanics, new setting, and new features — will it be able to deliver a ripe adventure worth spending your gold coins on? Mayhap, mayhap not. Thus, I bid thee to scourage the text and video below to find the answer!
Australians Are Pissed Off Over Rating System…CRIKEY!
Well, it looks like the Australian federal government is putting it’s foot down over the lack of a viable rating system for video games.
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Rumor Mill – “Leaked Internal Video” From Microsoft Shows The Future Of Windows Gaming?
Well, there’s definitely a video…that’s no rumor at all. The real rumor is that the video was leaked from an internal source at Microsoft and shows the direction Microsoft wants to go with its Windows Gaming eXperience, or WGX.
God I hope this isn’t true…Video after the jump.
Beginning Of The End For Retail Gaming Releases?
Sure, the PSP’s been doing it for a while, but who cares about the PSP? And sure, the PC’s been doing it for a while, but everyone’s pirating their games or playing World of Warcraft. But with the NGP doing it — Sony’s promising next-gen portable that looks to shatter many of the reasons they’ve flubbed up with the PSP in the past — we see a redeemed effort to dislodge retail from holding back The Future Of Purchasing Games. Sony recently announced that when titles release at retail for their Next Generation Portable, they’ll release digitally on the same day. This obviously had some fight back from retail, who are trying to hold onto retail sales as long as possible and, in the recent case of Best Buy and the thrilling example of Gamestop, maintain a second-hand market for games as well. I could go on for days about how the industry’s conversion to full day-and-date physical and digital releases across all platforms will be better for all gamers (that’ll be another article), but this bodes well for the vision of a disc-less gaming future.
Source: Joystiq
Book Review: David Kushner’s “Masters of Doom”
Long before Bulletstorm and Gears of War, long before Unreal Tournament and Halo, before deathmatches, WAD files, and the ESRB rating system, there was id. I’ve wanted to pick this book up for a while, even though I never really played Doom or Quake growing up, but it was my obligation as a PC gamer in the late 90s to know who these guys from Mesquite, Texas were. id Software was a champion of industry in my youth and even if they’re no longer the Kings Of The World they were back then, and their engines are no longer being licensed left and right, the journey of id Software and the birth of the first-person shooter is an incredible read.
What’s This? An iOS Sale?
You can thank plate tectonics for this one, fan boys. For 48 hours the popular app developer, PopCap, will be throwing all of it’s iOS games under a truck enticing you to donate to the RedCross if you haven’t already. Smart move PopCap. I can help save the Japanese from starvation and play Peggle at the same time? Where do I sign up?
Jack’s Back! LOLZ!
Disbarred-for-LIFE former anti-video-game lawyer Jack Thompson is at it again, threatening people about violent video games.
Game Review: Killzone 2
There was precisely one moment where I thought Killzone 2 would break out of its polished, brown husk and show me a transcendental experience worthy of its pre-release hype. In a siege piece near the end of the game, I had pushed forward against the Darth Vader-ish Helghast with my AI soldiers, fighting in the multi-tiered grounds before a massive palace. At a point, I had taken higher ground, wiping out four Helghast soldiers and creating a new forward position for our march. The Helghast swarmed in, and we were forced level by level back to a landing below. The fight ebbed and flowed and I felt a stalemate come on against these unrelenting foes. Later, I found an underground tunnel which brought me beyond the Helghast barricade and the fight behind me immediately evaporated, as if a flipped switch had dismissed my opponents into oblivion.
This epitomized my time with Killzone 2.
