SubscribeIt’s always great to see something good happen to someone I genuinely admire, yet it’s equally tough to let someone go. This is the case with Gamespot Editor-in-Chief Greg Kasavin, someone with whom I’ve grown old during what has been the most influential and prolific ten years the gaming industry has ever seen. Greg has [...]
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1UP Needs a Chaperone
I had made a comment how 1UP.com, the web entity of the Ziff Davis Game Group, seemed like “the inmates are running the prison”. After making 1UP a daily read, especially in the past week, I can now say for certain that my comment is correct.
I initially gave 1UP too much credit (no pun intended). [...]
The Lester Bangs of Video Games is Under Our Noses
I’ve been kicking around a response to the uproar that was Chuck Klosterman’s article, “The Lester Bangs of Video Games“. Poor Chuck. He was misunderstood. All he wanted to do was jump on the video game criticism bandwagon. Hell, if Hillary Clinton can put it on her agenda, and with legislators carrying out their witch [...]
E3 2006 – Leftovers and Wrap-up
Everyone is talking like Gears of War is going to be as good as it was intended, which ends up being good for gamers, but does anyone else think that Cliff Bleszinski gets a free ride from the gaming press? Sure he hangs with porn stars, highlights his hair and acts like a rock star, [...]
E3 2006 – Musings from Day 1.0
I’m surprised we didn’t see any announcement from Microsoft regarding a larger hard drive. If the last couple days are any indication, we sorely need it. Especially those poor users who have Final Fantasy IX installed on their hard drives. All two of them.
Another surprising no-show is the alliance between Microsoft and DirecTV. Maybe Microsoft [...]
E3 2006 – Thoughts from the Pre-Show
Lumines Live will be the next Geometry Wars.
Did anyone catch that the Halo 3 demo was done with Xbox 360 hardware? They actually had the demo realtime behind closed doors. Pretty sweet.
G4 sucks. Officially. Again. Kevin Pereira is an annoying talking head that needs to be fragged, Doom-style. His smiling mug wants to make me [...]
Thoughts on the Gaming Press
There are three big players in the gaming press: GameSpot, IGN and 1UP. Actually four, with GamesRadar from Future, but since they are in their infancy, I’ll exclude them for now. I’ve had a lot of exposure to each of these, and a lot of thoughts have been floating around for a while now regarding [...]
iPod Video versus the PSP
Yesterday I posted my comments surrounding the huge potential of distributing niche programming via iTunes.
After I made my comments, I instantly looked toward my PSP. Now here is a device, supported by a giant electronics manufacturer, that can do everything the iPod Video can, with some advantages. First, it has the ability to display higher [...]
True TV for Gamers – GameSpot and iTunes
G4 sucks.
It’s a sad day, the day a true gamer finally puts aside his or her pride and accepts the truth. I do not want The Whip Set, Fastlane or The Man Show on my “TV for Gamers”. Video games are a multi-billion dollar business, so why resort to failed television shows unrelated to video [...]
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