|
SPECIAL COMMENT: Square-Enix, stop this flip-flopping, breaking promises, and lying....NOW!!
50 days 2 hours ago | by: darkpower
Only in this day in age in gaming can we be justified to be able to tell game developers to shove it when it comes to them taking the almighty dollar to develop for a system in which will limit their ability instead of making a game that will give them that same amount of money in return and then some. Only in this day in age of gaming did it seem so common for this practice to go on and on and...
|
|
|
SPECIAL COMMENT: The video game industry has passed Valve by?
60 days 12 hours ago | by: darkpower
To quote a famous Avis commercial: Ever get the feeling some people just stopped trying?
If the person who made that quote up looked at Valve, they would have answered their own question with not just the feeling, but the proof of such.
With the latest revelation just yesterday by Valve's Doug Lombardi in an interview with Computer and Video Games, we can say that they HAVE stopped t...
|
|
|
OBSERVATION: Think you know everything? Think again!
88 days ago | by: darkpower
You know, I've not been at all shy to tell everyone how much of a Keith Olbermann fanboy I am ever since I found out he had become the voice for the "other side" (something that at that point was scarce). And many people will have their own opinions about him.
But I think there is one thing that he had said earlier this year that I think applies to now in the game industry, and it's defini...
|
|
|
OBSERVATION: A small way Sony can get an advantage...over NINTENDO!
91 days 1 hour ago | by: darkpower
I've been thinking a bit about the PS3 vs. 360 battle and how ugly it has been lately. Been thinking about what Sony should do to try to finally get an advantage (I think Home will give them something MS doesn't have...if it ever comes out).
However, maybe there is another way that Sony can get past Microsoft this gen: Go after a few things that THE leading game console maker this time, Ni...
|
|
|
OBSERVATION: Doing your part.
95 days 22 hours ago | by: darkpower
NOTE: I am writing this only with knowledge of the United States voting process. I have no knowledge of how other countries have their voting rules or their current political issues. Therefore, be sure that if you live outside of the US, that while you can still use the methods I highlight here, that you should look up what are major issues in your country, and how voter registration works in...
|
|
|
SPECIAL COMMENT: Sony, it's time to hit them, and hit them hard!
96 days 6 hours ago | by: darkpower
There is a quote that a wise man, Albert Einstein, once said. Even though no one should mistake the usage of the quote with anyone thinking that any gaming company, past or present, or those that support them in any form of imagination, as evil, there is only one quote that fits the situation that we now are examining. While he said it three different ways, there is one way that he said it that...
|
|
|
SPECIAL COMMENT: Valve, why do you hate the video game industry?
143 days 11 hours ago | by: darkpower
There is a such thing as a travesty in the gaming industry. We have seen it in the past. There has been the Atari Jaguar (which one could think that if Atari had a long term plan with it, the system could've gone places), the untimely death of Sega as a hardware company (which because a bit of a half-bittersweet deal), and the CD-i. However, travesties are not exclusive to consoles, but rather ...
|
|
|
Special Comment - Who are your friends in the gaming media?
176 days 23 hours ago | by: darkpower
In the new age of gaming media, one must be aware of who has the best interest of the gamer at heart. As well as giving everyone well informed analysis and reviews on who has the best bang for your buck, they must also realize when a controversy, really isn't one. The gaming media, along with its responsibility to inform you on the facts about one game and the industry, one must also not read t...
|
|
|
The spin machine doing a full 360...and it's not good in the least.
260 days 19 hours ago | by: darkpower
I am not going to be doing this to say that I am some kind of fanboy to
any console. I have expressed deep desire to own a XBox 360 at some point (was on my list last Christmas), and I have expressed that I am looking forward to at least one game that Microsoft is wanting to release this year (Fable 2). However, with the latest bit of "damage control" that Microsoft has done about the February...
|
|
|
The (hopefully) final word on GTA4 DLC!
261 days 20 hours ago | by: darkpower
To explain what we must talk about, we must first discuss Misery.
No, it is not a cry to be put out of some misery, but rather a 1990 film that was adapted from a Stephen King novel of the same name. In it, an author, Paul Sheldon, just days after writing his latest installment of his Misery series, is involved in a near fatal car accident in the dead of winter. A woman, a nurse named Anni...
|
|
|
Jack Thompson: Gone too far.
267 days 14 hours ago | by: darkpower
So here I am, going to Wikipedia to see why Jane Fonda was called "Hanoi Jane" (believe it or not, I never really understood the logic behind the label). Do not ask why I was searching that. It's a long story.
However, through a long string of cross links to several other articles, my browser was taken to Jack Thompson ("controversy" to "media coverage of the VT massacre" to Jacko). The...
|
|
|
My official response to Torrence Davis's blog posts.
275 days 2 hours ago | by: darkpower
So I have been seeing this controversy involving two blogs, the second trying to further detail the first, about this whole issue with Grand Theft Auto IV's (GTA4) downloadable content (DLC). According the the blog on The Bit Bag (has anyone heard of this blog before?), he was at the Microsoft "Blogger Breakfast" which was held at the beginning of the GDC 2008 show. I previously didn't know tha...
|
|
