EVERY MASOCHIST'S GAME OF THE YEAR

Nov 18, 2012

For our annual public service announcement, we must warn you that this is a challenging game.  Don’t play this game drunk.  Don’t play it after a rough breakup.  Don’t play it in any way recklessly.  It will only end in tears. While the layers of difficulty are for the most part legitimate, there’s a few cheap tricks being pulled.  Zombies lying...

Apr 3, 2012

The recent bulletins and media bytes scavenged from all the usual suspects offers us a unique opportunity for reflection on The Great Three’s future. With each console maker in serious design and deliberation mode for their next platform, the steady trickle of news and “leaks” start to gain legitimate mass as summer approaches. Before we know...

Jul 1, 2011

Dear Nintendo, Is it time for the big N to go the way of the Sega? Any gamer not sucking their thumbs in the 90s surely remembers the heated console wars. You versus Sega. Your NES versus the Master System. Your SNES versus the Genesis. Mario versus Sonic. Eventually, Sony entered the fray with its Playstation, and by the dawn of the new millennium, proved that...

Jun 25, 2011

The Wii U is going to fail us all, continuing the hallowed Nintendo tradition of thwarted expectations. Recall a time in 2006, when Reggie Fils-Aime boasted that the Wii was not competing with the Xbox and the PS3.  The Wii was the only real next-gen system.  He mesmerized us with our own imaginations: we dreamed of swinging from Samus’s grappling beam, of...

Jun 25, 2011

Let me begin with a ballsy claim: the release of the Wii U will mark the return to the focus on a gaming experience that we want from Nintendo (et al) and usher in new innovations that will be of genuine value to those of us outside Nintendo’s newly courted demographic of yoga moms and pony loving tweens.  Rather than another fresh gimmick, the new console...

Jun 9, 2011

Nintendo’s new giant white excuse for a console is bizarre to hold – more confounding than inspiring. This is Nintendo’s new ambition? It resembles the end product of a fusion dance between an iPad and Game Gear.  Furthermore, its intrigue is almost entirely symmetrical to “flashy” Mac products: it looks slick, and operates effortlessly. All the...

Jun 7, 2011

What can I say besides: Reggie, you’re killing me!! What happened to the Reggie of old that had me completely pumped up for the release of the Wii? Overall, I felt the Nintendo E3 2011 Press Conference suffered from an anemic lack of vigor and excitement, entreating us to instead use our imaginations to envision the coming gaming revolution of Wii U. There was...