This might be old (and it’s for a soccer game, not Football) but it still rings true!
Asides
Baby Buttonmasher #3!
Our newest little buttomasher has arrived:
I don’t know if I ever actually mentioned that Mrs. Buttonmasher was expecting, but our little boy was born this morning! He doesn’t have a name yet, but he’s still cute as ever. Mom and son are doing great!
He’ll be mashing buttons in no time!
Where were these camps when I was a kid?
I went to Boy Scout camp every summer as a kid. We did fun stuff like build fires, sleep under the stars, and play German Spotlight. I also got to enjoy being homesick to the point of tears (my first year only, honest!), being a hemo-buffet to every mosquito in northern Ohio, and getting poison ivy in places better left unsaid.
At no point in my childhood did I ever get to go to somewhere cool like Cybercamps. Where was this stuff when I was a kid? (h/t Educational Games Blog)
Actually, I think roughing it in the woods was a pretty good time.
E3 and me
Since I don’t have the extra time or intenstinal fortitude, I’ve never covered anything in-depth, with regard to E3, here on the blog. It’s usually a week-long overload of information, with heaping spoonfuls of marketing and PR fluff and I can’t process it as fast as it comes out.
Nevertheless, I still follow as much as I can and leave the heavy lifting the big boys. As always, I have a list of titles I’m most interested in, and I follow the news to catch whatever tidbits there might be for my consumption. Here’s a short list of what I’m interested to see covered from this years E3 (keep in mind I don’t even know if anything will be mentioned, I’m just hoping):
Halo 3 (naturally)
Mercenaries 2 (please be as awesome as the original)
Sony’s new MMO-Spy game, The Agency
Mass Effect
Assassin’s Creed
Metroid Prime 3 (who needs online multiplayer? There can only be one Samus!)
Super Mario Galaxy (One of these two titles will finally push me over the edge to get a Wii. If they come out with months of each other, I’ll be in heaven)
Animal Crossing Wii (ditto)
These titles are just wishful thinking:
Dead Rising 2
Resident Evil 5
So that’s what I’m looking forward to (and probably what you’ll see linked here on the blog). What about you? What games are you most interested in? Anything not on my radar, that should be?
Ranking the video game bloggers
I wanted to link Dan Dormer’s deconstruction of MTV’s “Top Ten Video Game Blogs” and his reconstruction a much better list.
I don’t have a ton to add, I just wanted to say I agreed with pretty much everything that Dan said. It’s criminal that they didn’t include Game Politics. Horrible omission. I’m also not a huge fan of Destructoid but I recognize what they’ve built over there. They do their thing, which isn’t necessarily my thing, but they still do their thing very well. I commend them for their success, though. They have become pretty popular pretty quickly.
I’m not sure who else I’d add that Dan hasn’t already mentioned. I’m pretty partial to the bloggers I’ve got on my blogroll, though.
There are “fans”
And then there are “fans”.
There’s a new guy in town
When I first started this site I never envisioned it growing larger than just me blogging. I actually resisted the idea of another blogger for a long time. Then as time went on, I noticed that I just simply can’t keep up with everything. Along with that, there are huge gaps in the amount of titles I can actually play. So I mulled over the idea of adding another blogger and decided to ask Nat if he’d join me. I was pretty excited when he joined the team a little while ago.
Recently I ran into a high school buddy of mine on MySpace (it’s not all bad, yo!). He and I were huge gamers back in the day and we fell out of touch for a while. After a little back and forth via email, we got together on Live for some Gears of War and had a blast. I told him about the site and made an offer to him, that if he was interested, I’d love to have him write for the site as well. He agreed and he’ll also be joining the buttonmashing.com team. He’ll go by the name Dark Reyule and he’ll be giving us some excellent content.
So now, as far as the site goes, here’s how I see things: I’ll be handling the majority of the day-to-day blogging and site stuff. Nat will throw in his two cents, blogging-wise, along with some more in-depth analysis and editorial content. He’ll also be our resident Sony expert. Dark Reyule will be our 360 guru, blogging about the goings-on with the 360, and will be providing us with his in depth reviews of games he’s been playing. We’ll have two of his reviews up soon one the site.
So in the period of a couple months, we’ve tripled in size and will hopefully be bringing some consistently good content.
Older and wiser
Today marks buttonmashing.com’s 3-year anniversary. Hard to believe I’ve lasted this long. Hard to think this blog is older than one of my children.
The blog is out of the terrible two’s. I don’t know what they call the “three’s”. Terrific three’s? That’s what I’m hoping for.
I LOL everytime
While it’s usually a black hole of wasted time and depravity, the internet has created some funny stuff. I’ve been seeing this everywhere lately and it is my favorite thing EVER.
Thank you, internet, for making this.
That is all.
Out of the mouths of babes
The kids were at my parents’ house this past week, giving the missus and I a nice break. We went to pick them up over the weekend, and my daughter asked me to fix my mom’s computer because she couldn’t get her games to work. She loves to play the games on sites like barbie.com and disney.com. She’s becoming quite the gamer. Daddy is proud.
Anyway, she comes running up to me and tells me to fix the computer, because “the dot-coms aren’t working!”
Truer words could not have been spoken.