The Short Version Platform: PC One Word: Apocalyptic Two Words: Incredible Depth Worth It: Yes Scale: terrible | poor | fair | good | great The Long Version Fallout 3‘s the first game I’ve given a “great” to on this site, a rating I don’t expect to use often because, frankly, it’s thrown around far [...]
Well, we’re nearing holiday season, and like many other Americans, the holidays often serve to remind me that there’s a whole big world out there full of people less fortunate than myself. Each year I try to make some donations – the amount of which varies based on how I’m doing that year. It’s something [...]
My god, I hate the Christmas season from a video-gaming standpoint. This isn’t 1999, when I was single and my “social life” was going to Outback Steak House with a bunch of other GameSpy nerds before coming back to play video games for the next five hours. Uh … you know what? Frankly, I’m glad [...]
The one thing I hate about being pretty computer-knowledgeable is that whenever the time comes to upgrade, I inevitably end up talking myself into building my own machine, even though I am really past the time in my life when I enjoy doing so. I often wish I could just order something, pull it out [...]
I have a shocking confession to make, or at least … shocking to people who play video games, which I suspect is the vast majority of this site’s small audience: I have yet to play Portal. I know, I know … many people consider it to be 2007′s Game of the Year and it’s received [...]
The Short Version Platform: Xbox 360 One Word: Grim Two Words: Gleefully Brutal Worth It: Yes Scale: terrible | poor | fair | good | great The Long Version So, if my fiancée Charlotte was a little skeeved out by collecting hobo meat in the Penny Arcade Game, you can imagine how thrilled she was [...]
The Short Version Platform: Xbox 360 One Word: Entertaining Two Words: Budget Quality Worth It: Yes Scale: terrible | poor | fair | good | great The Long Version “You’re collecting hobo meat?” “Yeh. You know … from hobos.” “That’s disgusting!” “… they attacked me first!” She glanced at the screen again, then turned to [...]
I have a painful admission to make. I’m addicated to a … a … golf game! I feel so white, and rich, and old. But it should be noted that I’m not addicted to PLAYING golf. No, I’m far too uncoordinated for that — I have a hard time walking around the house without bumping [...]
I recently wrapped up playing Professor Layton and the Curious Village on my Nintendo DS. It’s an interesting title … probably won’t appeal to everyone, since not everyone digs brain teasers, but the highlight of the game for me wasn’t so much the collection of puzzles as the overall design vision behind the game. It’s [...]
