The date: January 6, 2006. The subject: EA Jumping the Shark. The quote: “[EA] certainly have enough cash to cruise on autopilot for the next year or so, but as the next generation of consoles emerge, you can mark my words there will be a new number-one publisher.” (original post) The evidence: “Activision has become [...]
What’s Going on at MDIAG! Right Now…- Netflix Streaming Better Than Physical Disc? August 8, 2010
- MDIAG! PSA: The Land Before Time on Netflix Streaming August 7, 2010
- SDCC: Hasbro’s Marvel Booth Walkthrough August 6, 2010
- MDIAG! PSA: Get Ghostbusters: The Video Game for $14.99 August 6, 2010
- SDCC: Hasbro’s Star Wars Booth Walkthrough August 6, 2010
Month: July, 2007
What “Night of the Comet” Taught Me
There’s something far more important going on with the HD format war than anything that ever happened during the DVD generation. It hit me last night as I was watching a HD feed of Night of the Comet on Universal HD. Which made me reflect on my recent viewing of Krull on HDNet. Which reminded [...]
Ready…Set…FIGHT!
What the hell is going on at Microsoft? Bad news hit the Big Green twice after my last post on the subject. First, the famously outspoken Dennis Dyack and his company Silicon Knights has filed a breach of contract suit against Epic Games. The suit states: Epic violated the Agreement with Silicon Knights by, among [...]
There’s a Story Here Somewhere…
Google “GameStop questionable practices” and you’ll find anecdote after anecdote about how GameStop employees screw over the average consumer. We’ve all seen it, we’ve all been affected by it. Yet the retailer reports quarter after quarter of increased profits in seemingly unstoppable fashion. I recently went to the largest (in sales) area store to peruse [...]
UPDATE: Bad News Comes in Sixes
UPDATE: Apparently bad news doesn’t come in fives, they come in threes x 2. Kudos to 1UP for going forward with a story that started out as a potential gag on NeoGAF. The story involves “Da Man” Jeff Bell, Corporate Vice President of Global Marketing, Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft (let me repeat that for [...]
And for some good news…
Remember just yesterday when I explained the benefits of PC gaming being: a) the separation of physical media from the gaming experience; and b) the ability to purchase and download a AAA selection of games and software for instant gratification? Well, to fuel that argument, Steam announced a partnership with THQ to provide digital distribution [...]
PC Gaming – It’s fan-tastic!
Thanks to a recent technical malfunction on my five-year old BYO personal computer, I was able to convince my wife it was time to build anew. And so I have, with my brand-spanking new PC. Good to know this thing registers a nice 5.2 (of 5) on Vista, with my highly-overclockable dual-core CPU the weak [...]
E3 2007: Nintendo and Sony Afterthoughts
Maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m being overly critical of this year’s E3 press events. But on the whole, they are pretty lackluster and without the grandiose fanfare the consoles were pushing the last couple years. It seems like a waste to spend all that money on these big AV spectacles when I can just go [...]
E3 2007: The Microsoft Press Event
After all the hoopla surrounding the death and rebirth of the Electronics Entertainment Expo, pulled from Heaven back to Hell on Earth like Buffy in Season 6 (had to put that Whedon reference there), it’s finally here. And after watching Microsoft’s press event last night, I’m betting there are some in Redmond who probably wished [...]