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2008 In Review: These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

In no particular order:
How I Met Your Mother
Ghost Adventures
Kyle Orton
Electronic Arts
The Blur Reunion
Netflix on the NXE
Hellboy II, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, The Dark Knight – all the great comic book movies this year (in ascending order)
Giant Bomb
Cheap Ass Gamer
Nintendo DS
DRM Free MP3s at Amazon.com
Joss Whedon
Buffy, Firefly, Angel, Army of Darkness – awesome comics based [...]

A Bad Cliche

I’ve been playing Viva Pinata for the DS over the past week, and I just wanted to reap praise on this little title that could. What, you say, little? Hasn’t Rare’s franchise been in the critical limelight for years already? Yes, and well, I thought the original Viva Pinata game for the Xbox 360 was [...]

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 [...]

Riddick-ulous

Seriously awesome. It’s so awesome I don’t necessarily mind that Microsoft never bothered to make Butcher Bay a back-compat title. Who wouldn’t pay for an upgraded Riddick on their next-gen console with updated graphics (even if the original’s graphics looked pretty “next-gen” to begin with?) and an extra level. Mmmm… an extra level of Riddick…
As [...]

My Preciousssss…

Having recently been initiated into the Ring of Red club, I wanted to make mention of a Mercury News interview with Peter Moore. Sure, lots of people are experiencing problems with their Xbox 360s, to the point they have to be sent in for repair. But the process, as I just have gone through it, [...]

Why the Elite is a Bad Idea

I just don’t get what Microsoft is trying to do with the Xbox 360 Elite. Sure, it has a bigger hard drive, and HDMI, and it’s black; but what does it really deliver to warrant an $80 premium over the, well, Premium pack?
HDMI
First, I want to make mention of the HDMI capabilities. It’s been confirmed [...]

Are We Getting Aquazone?!?

I just wanted to pass along something I noticed on Major Nelson’s XBL Gamer Card today. Among the list of recent games he’s played, there was one game picture I hadn’t seen before. Take a look:

Yes, that’s right. It says Aquazone. I know it’s not really a “game”, but it might make a nice little [...]

Buh-Bye, Greg…

…and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Reported by Gamasutra, Greg Canessa has left his cozy confines at Microsoft so he can continue his legacy of overpromising and underdelivering at PopCap. One can only hope Xbox management realized how he ran one of the cornerstones of its online strategy near the point [...]

XBL Eating Crow

Yup, Heavy Weapon is worth your money. And with the recent announcement of the reduced-price Lumines Live! content packs to salvage that game from the hell of damning gamers, it appears as if XBLA management is eating crow on their earlier plans of profiting from the ill-informed.
You know what? It might just work – I’m [...]

Short Legs for Viva Pinata

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 [...]