Monday, January 18th, 2010

“Sony’s PlayStation video game console is “poison” and leads children down the capitalist “road to hell,” is the latest signature worthy quotation coming from Venezuelan President HugoChávez, on his weekly radio-TV show “Alo Presidente”.
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Tags: Banning, Controversy, Hugo Chávez, PS3, Venezuela
Sunday, January 10th, 2010

2010 is looking to be an amazing year for gamers. “Thanks to” the release of Modern Warfare 2 and a little bit of econimic crisis several high profile titles meant for late 2009 got pushed into 2010 instead.
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Tags: 2010, Final Fantasy, Halo, Heavy Rain, Mass Effect, Metro 2033, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Japan has long been the motherland of weird and wacky stuff, including video games. Not sure what to make out of the new trailer for upcoming western release of”Record of Agarest War”, other than it might be the most honest trailer ever released.
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Tags: Japan, PS3, Record of Agarest War, Xbox 360
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

“Avatar Drop” is your typical simple party game and its gameplay basics are taken directly from the old flash game “Boneless Girl”… or Boneless Bush… Boneless Bin Ladin… whichever iteration you may or may not remember.
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Tags: Avatar Drop, CGOTW, community, Indie, Microsoft, Xbox 360
Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Seriously GameSpot, what happened here? How can Empire: Total War not even be among the editorial nominees, and since when did The Sims even count as a strategy game?
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Tags: gamespot, PC gaming, The Sims
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

The long awaited over-the-top action game Bayonetta is finally here and while it was rumoured that the PS3 version was suffering from some performance issues, it looks like it’s much worse than the usual differences we see in multi-platform titles.
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Tags: Bayonetta, CELL, featured, PS3, Sony, Xbox 360
Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Time to try and revive our community game of the week series, and first out is “Border Wars”. The hand drawn art style is what made me look closer while shifting through the Indie game catalogue on Xbox Live.
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Tags: CGOTW, community, Indie, Microsoft, Xbox 360
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Three months is a good time between updates, right? Seriously I’ve been anxiety-ridden over my inability to play and write about games lately. I suddenly went from playing a great variaty of old and new games to working twice as much and see my only game time being eaten up by AION.
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Tags: Aion, MMORPG
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

For this BFTP I will tip all you gaming noobs off on one of the greatest PC games of all time; X-COM: UFO Defense, or X-COM: Enemy Unknown as it was later called. This turn-based strategy masterpiece was first released for MS-DOS in 1993.
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Tags: BFTP, PC, PC gaming, Steam, X-COM
Friday, August 28th, 2009

There are videogame trailers are great and there are those that are terrible, not so often do you see one that’s simply ridiculous and funny. The “Serious Supermercial Trailer” for the upcoming PC and XBLA remake of “Serious Sam” stands out among the rest..
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Tags: PC, Serious Sam, trailer, XBLA