I’ll keep this short. After only two hours of play. Batman Arkham Asylum is my GOTY 2009. I don’t know of many other titles that are coming up that may pass this. (Assassin’s Creed 2?)
Entries Tagged as 'Gamer Responsibility'
Over XBox Achieving
July 7th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Commentary
I understand there is a huge debate over the merits of Achievements on the XBox 360, and for the most part I think people tend to make a big deal out of nothing. Either people put way too much into getting them or they often feel too strongly about how worthless the concept is and [...]
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I Want to Be Held in Your Hand
June 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Commentary
Some quotes from various blogs reporting at E3: “Microsoft’s new motion controller is a camera, that uses object, movement, and voice recognition to deliver a new kind of immersive gaming experience.” “We’ve seen Paul’s Höfner bass, John’s Rickenbacker 325 guitar and George’s Gretsch Duo Jet guitar. All that’s missing is Ringo’s drum kit. Until now.” [...]
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Are YOU Prepared for the Apocalypse?
February 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Entertainment, Videos
!!!!BREAKING NEWS!!!! Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse? Make sure you get your daily dose of gaming in. You never know when it’ll happen. That or you could of go make a vault somewhere…
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Parents with Common Sense
December 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Commentary
I don’t know how many times in the last year my wife and I have received a movie from Netflix only to get about five to ten minutes into it and be amazed at the junk Hollywood is putting out. Some of these are PG and PG-13 movies. In the last six to nine months [...]
No Wii Speak (and Possibly Animal Crossing) for Me
November 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Commentary
Have you been hearing about publishers efforts to block or prevent the resell and trade-in of games? Nintendo’s not any different. The peripheral can also be used without “Animal Crossing,” just for game-free voice chat, but that requires used of the Wii Speak Channel, which will be released in December. But there’s a catch, a [...]
LittleBigPlanet Levels Being Moderated
November 9th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Gaming
Media Molecule and Sony seems to be deleting user-created levels that feature or copy intellectual property. Get over it, whiners. Create something unique and original. I’ve specifically avoided anything to do with other IP and game level copying. 99% of it is crap anyway. If I want to play Super Mario Bros., uh, I’ll play [...]
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Gamer Responsibility: The Games You Haven’t Played
November 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Commentary
11% of all household games have unopened titles We recently looked at what appeared to be a revealing statistic that mentioned the average video game collection has 48 titles. Average. It’s even more revealing that in a little over one out of ten homes some of those average 48 titles are unopened. Before I begin, [...]
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Gamer Responsibility: The Number of Titles You Own
November 1st, 2008 · 6 Comments · Commentary
Gamasutra is reporting some numbers from an NPD survey: The average video game collection has 48 titles 11% of all household games have unopened titles 54% trade in their titles when they no longer play them Of all the data mentioned I find these three the most troubling. I’d like to take three separate occasions [...]
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A letter to my kids about videogames
March 23rd, 2010 · 5 Comments · Commentary, Gaming
I have regular discussions about videogames with my kids, but I also have a lot of parents who are less game savvy ask me about what I do and don’t let my kids play. I think the most common question I get is “Why?” In other words, why is one game ok and another is [...]
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