Let me start with the usual reminders here for folks that encounter these quick comments in the JoeUser.com or Stardock.com systems that it may be cross-posted to multiple locations through those systems. It was properly posted and categorized at the time it was posted, but it may appear in areas (like PC Gaming) where it may not seem applicable. If you see it in such areas and aren't interested in Xbox 360 gaming, or if you aren't interested in the game being discussed, please ignore the d...
Last night I did something I have very rarely done: I played a game online. I don't game all that often, and in my past experience those who usually game online are pretty serious about their gaming. In short, they are much better than I. This results in me getting my butt kicked time and again in the most embarrassing manner. It isn't that much fun. That, along with having to sit there, figure out which games are open, which are not (I have had a couple of occasions where I was not-so-kindly...
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Prior articles might have given me away as a baseball fan, but in case it's not obvious, yes, I am a baseball fan -- including baseball on the video game consoles. I could spend a few seconds with the right google keywords and dig up some ancient (in terms of computers/video games) reviews that I did on baseball games for various systems, dating all the way back to the very first baseball game released for the old Playstation (original Playstation, not PS2) system. Boy, that dates me a bi...
Since it's release a little over a week ago, I've been thoroughly enjoying Ubisoft's new WWII flying game, the aptly titled Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII. Since I mention enjoying the game a lot, you can probably tell in advance that this review will be mostly positive. Hopefully you'll read on a little further, and perhaps enjoy a little of the eye candy screen shots I've found and am linking here. Blazing Angels is, at least on the Xbox 360, a visually impressive game. It's n...
There are two things that I'm finding that I'm surprised still haven't made their way into the Xbox family of consoles, especially in the Xbox 360, the "second" generation of the Xbox family. Since it's the second generation of the box, I would have figured that by now these two things would have made their way into the system, and perhaps they will in the future, but so far these ideas seem to be nothing more than wishful thinking. First, an internet browser/e-mail application is definit...
Yes, you have read it all before. I understand that there are some people out there that are getting sick of the subject of the 360 'scandal' that is going on. No more so than I, where I work in a gaming store that has recieved not only angry people calling about their pre-orders, or asking whne more will come in. First question, did Microsoft intentionally pull a Sony with it's new console? Talking to a couple of old school guys that I used to work with suggests that no, they didn't pull ...
The real reason I am buying a Xbox 360 has been delayed. While the release date for Elder Scrolls IV has been up in the air recently, I have been told that the new release date will be sometime in Dec. December! I pre-ordered the game and was whole-heartidly waiting for it to come around to launch day so I can call in sick and play the crap out of it. Now....I have to wait. Is it me, or has a lot of software titles started missing release dates? A co-worker of mine has expectantly bee...
So, I was lounging around with my roomate the other night and we got to talking about the Xbox 360. I truely thought about this for a long time. I am a fanboy, yes, for Sony. But, I weighted the pros and cons about getting a 360 or waiting for the PS3. First things first, there is take that the PS3 won't be released until 2007. Wow. I mean, I understand that the quality of this next system has to be perfect for coming out of the gate, but that is a lot of time to give the competition. W...
I have recieved a ton of e-mails asking me why I hate the Xbox. I'm not sure where that idea had come from, but I am here to explain a few things. First, I will freely admit that I love the PS2. It wasn't that they were faster or had a better ad campaign, I just liked them. It took a lot for me to hang my Nintendo fanboy hat up a long time ago, when I was hoping beyond impossible odds that the N 64 would outshine the PSone. Nintendo, that family-conscience, introduced me to a lot in it's d...
This is a departure for me as I usually write about something a little more charged in my other Blogs. However, I made an exception this time as I felt it almost a civic duty. Advent Rising for XBox, much hyped due to Unreal game engine and story by an award winning sci-fi author Orson Scott Card, has been very disappointing. First are the technical problems. Game developers have become much better at debugging before releasing XBox games in the higher end category. It almost seems on this...