Archive for the 'Console Gaming' Category

Black (The Video Game, Not the Color)

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

Black(From Criterion and EA)

BLACK is a new first person shooter by Criterion. It tries to walk to line between a realistic military shooter (like Splinter Cell […]

Controlling the Revolution

Friday, September 16th, 2005

The Che Guevara of input devices.

When I saw the first pictures of the Nintendo Revolution Controller, my first thought was, “Are you shitting me?” It […]

Game Boy Micro

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

It’s even mini’er than I imagined

After visiting with the Turbine folks on Sunday, we wandered over to the Nintendo booth to check those peeps. We found a […]

We like PAX in Principle

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Let me stress that there are some very wonderful things about PAX. There is, for example, a sign in front of a closet that says, “Stoat check, No weasels allowed”. That is genuine endearing cleverness. There are some very talented Dance Dance Revolution players, and a few humorously costumed attendees. Also, […]

I Can Still Taste It

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

We went into this thing with eyes wide open. We had a notion of the density and intensity of the nerdiness we were preparing to immerse ourselves in. We thought we were prepared.
We thought wrong.
The dark and awesome power of Penny Arcade has stirred the breadth and depth of geekdom and drawn the entirety of […]

PAX-ward Bound

Saturday, August 27th, 2005

Since we were too cheap to get a hotel for two whole nights, we missed the first day of PAX and decided to just drive up to Bellevue this morning and check things out. We’re pretty much set to roll out now, so we should be in the area by 1:30 or 2:00. Mostly, we’re […]