I stumbled upon GamerDNA the other day and thought the concept was pretty neat. Basically it works like Facebook but for the gaming community. One of the activities it uses to build DNA is adding games to a profile, so I took that opportunity to answer the unanswerable: What are my favorite games of all [...]
by spot on December 31, 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 [...]
by spot on December 22, 2008
Yesterday I was cleaning up my gaming room, and I did something pretty drastic – I put Viva Pinata back on the shelf. Since Christmas, I’ve been playing this one near-exclusively, with the exception of the random online and XBLA diversion. And even though I’ve had my complaints about the gameplay, I’ve always given it [...]
by spot on January 11, 2007
‘Twas the night before the night before Christmas, and all through the house; not a creature was stirring, but my wife would beg to differ gaming doesn’t bring out the monster in me. So as my family was fast asleep, I decided to pull out my Sega Saturn to reminisce the classic days of Japanese [...]
by spot on December 26, 2006
So I wrote in a previous post to keep an eye out on Nintendo during the next console war. And either Microsoft had the same thought, or J Allard is reading my blog, because Viva Pinata is more than what it seems.
If anyone heard our first spotradio broadcast, the would have remembered me mocking Microsoft’s [...]
by spot on March 23, 2006
I don’t know what’s more important – the fact that the Xbox 360 has such a great game in Perfect Dark Zero (PDZ) at launch, or that Rare was able to pull it together with their backs against the wall. Either way, it’s good for us gamers.
I have to say I wasn’t that impressed with [...]
by spot on December 6, 2005