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Personality Test
I love it when I’m right.
On Area5’s first CO-OP episode, I saw the parade of ex-EGM/1UP employees marching up the stairs and thought, “Hey, James Mielke isn’t there. They must really hate the bastard.” After all, he was the last EIC at EGM, the one that was supposed to lead the magazine back to the [...]
Kudos to Area5.tv
The entire world has already Dugg it, and thousands have seen it on YouTube, so it might sound like I’m a little late to the party, but I just wanted to congratulate Ryan O’Donnell and gang at Area5.tv for putting together the first episode of CO-OP, from the ashes of The 1UP Show.
Admittedly, I tuned [...]
Page Flippin’ : January 22, 2009
Welcome one and all to the first Page Flippin’ of 2009. Only one more year to go until the spaceship Alexei Leonov reaches Saturn, but I digress…
I received the February 2009 issue of Game Informer yesterday. GI continues to impress me with its editorial decisions. Not one page in this magazine feels like filler. And [...]
No Soliciting
I might sound a little selfish here, but is anyone as annoyed as I am at the alarming trend of ex-1UPpers panhandling their audiences lately? Sure, they just lost their jobs. I need to stay sympathetic, I keep telling myself.
So the folks at RebelFM get a free pass, because it was an immediate reaction from [...]
The New Print
Magazines are not dead, contrary to popular belief.
People think this because EGM died a tragic, horrible, unexpected death, but that’s just not the case. In fact, it was a sick old publication that had seen better days and suffered for years before the official, certified date from the coroner. It’s no secret I was never [...]
Page Flippin’: December 22, 2008
For those who say, “print is dead,” I reply:
“…really?”
Just because Ziff-Davis is shuttering its remaining publications like CGW and PC Magazine, and the once-great Electronic Gaming Monthly, or EGM to you young-ins, is anemic to the point of flatlining, doesn’t mean it’s all doom-and-gloom for the rest. Page Flippin’ is going to be a somewhat-regular [...]
Thirty Hours in Thirty Seconds
Here’s another hypothetical review:
Bill: I’ve really been looking forward to Mass Effect 2 for a long time, and now that it’s finally here I feel a little bit underwhelmed. The first game had its share of problems with the dialog options, despite trying something different from the typical branching conversations found in other RPGs. That [...]
Game of the Month
What if all movie reviews were like this?
After nearly 20 years of anticipation, George Lucas finally whets the appetite of millions of fanboys worldwide with the release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to theaters everywhere. Although this latest installment has it’s share of issues, it proves absence makes the heart grows fonder [...]
Cut ‘em Some Slack, Jack
I admit I’ve been hard on 1UP in the past. And let’s face it – when your magazines are anemic to the risk of becoming pamphlets, your site loads ten percent of the time, your employees are foul-mouthed, attention-grabbing alcoholics, and you cheat legitimate prize winners out of their copy of Thrillville (really); well, you [...]
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