I’ll be doing some “Best of” lists over the holidays as I do every year when I look back on the year that was, best comic, best website, best gadget, and best movie are still to come, but this one is an absolute no-brainer. The best game for 2008 in my opinion totally ran away [...]
Posts Tagged: video games
How did games become my new movies?
I don’t know when it happened exactly, but at some point in the last 5 years, I stopped being a huge movie nut, and transferred some of that love over to video games. I used to read Premiere magazine, and Entertainment Weekly. I would surf Film Threat, and Cinematical, Rotten Tomatoes was a weekly pilgramige, [...]
Good bye HD DVD, hello Blu Ray
Well, I did it. Last week in a moment of weakness I sold my HD DVD discs, put the HD DVD player up for auction, and went out and bought myself a Blu Ray player…a PS3 to be specific. The deal at Rogers video was too good to pass up. I’ve been eyeing a Blu [...]
What I'm playing – the summer edition
I managed to get a fair amount of gaming in this summer, much to my wife’s chagrin. The majority of it is all casual, or quick games that I can play for ten or twenty minute stretches in between all of the other stuff I do, but it’s fun nonetheless. Here’s my list of games [...]
Initial Thoughts: GTA IV
GTA IV is out, I picked mine up on Tuesday, but didn’t get to play it right away. I’ve got a ton of stuff on the go this week, but I decided to make some time to play it anyway Wednesday night. This is the first new GTA game for the current generation of consoles, [...]
What I played, Q1 2008
Since the first three months of 2008 are almost over, I thought I’d go over the games I played this quarter, what got the most of my time, what I liked, what I didn’t, and what rocked my world (pun intended). Here’s the brief list of the games I played in the first 3 months [...]
Rock Band: Better with a group
I’ve been playing Rock Band off and on since Christmas, and other than one night with the guys, we usually play just Char and I. We have a great little two person band ala The White Stripes going on we’re known as “Chip and the Dips”. The two of us have fun together rocking out [...]