peachey @ August 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“It’s a puzzle worthy of The Riddler: Why is there no video game based on ‘The Dark Knight’?” opens the article by Derrick J. Lang of the Associated Press, exploring the oddity of the abscence of a videogame companion to this summer’s huge blockbuster, The Dark Knight.
peachey @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The above screen-grab pretty much says it all: over at metacritic.com, the average score for Too Human across 22 industry reviews is 67%. By videogame industry standards, that’s an average to below average game. Gulp!
Durling @ July 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
With its ever expanding library of downloadable content, Rock Band is a game that has the potential to never get old for headbangers, metalheads, and rockers alike.
peachey @ July 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In a recent story over at CBC.ca, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s online persona and news site, Canadians are practically emptying their pockets to lose themselves in virtual entertainment.
peachey @ June 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Because I’m a fan, that’s why. But if you really need a reason, take a look at that video drum interface at the very beginning of the video. Does it remind you of something?
That, and Trent Reznor did the soundtrack for the original Quake. Quake Wars: Enemy Territory just released on Xbox 360 a few […]
peachey @ June 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I couldn’t help but share this. I think BioWare used this contraption to compose the Mass Effect soundtrack. Maybe with a Power Glove, this thing could really go somewhere. The stuff people come up with…
P.S. What the hell is an arpeggiator?!
peachey @ May 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Defensive, bitter, loud-mouthed, videogame-nerd bully and reviled director Uwe Boll, just released his “best film yet”, Postal.
Postal, based on the ultra-violent first-person shooters of the same name, is hardly a faithful adaption of the game itself. As it turns out, the movie is a cathartic interpretation of Uwe’s own frustration with his many and notable detractors […]
peachey @ May 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Leading up to the release of Grand Theft Auto IV we couldn’t help but notice that many major publications were making mention of “Review Events”, presumably held by developer Rockstar and publisher Take Two, for large swaths of the mainstream gaming press. Shortly thereafter, we were treated with IGN’s exclusive review of GTA IV, written […]
peachey @ May 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
CBC.ca reports a young woman in Calgary Alberta, Canada, recently underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor.
What’s so unique about this tumor removal was that it was accomplished by a robotic arm.
Moreover, Dr. Garnett Sutherland credited the success of the device to videogames:
“We would all agree that our young children who have become immersed in video games represent the future generation […]
