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Month: July 2008

  • Sony/M$ E3: Carrying the Torch

    Yoshinori Kitase has huge shoes to fill. As the producer of Final Fantasy XIII he’s looking at doing a job last held by Horonobu Sakaguchi in Final Fantasy X. Ok, Sakachuchi was technically the executive producer of that game, but with no other producers announced for XIII, I’m gonna come out and call him the […]

  • Grand Slam: The MLB All-Star Game

    This will be in a sort of liveblog fashion. First off, let me state that I hope we’ll get a NL win this year, I’m so tired of seeing the NL lose to those AL jerks… Lineup announcements: Slight cheering in the NL until they reach Mets players, then booing. How great is that? In […]

  • Wednesday Morning Quarterback: State of the League – A Look at My Predictions and the Necessary Adjustments

    You’ve probably heard the saying that hindsight is 20/20 on Monday morning, so just imagine how well I can call ’em two days later on Wednesday. That’s right, it’s time for Wednesday Morning Quarterback, your weekly sports round-up. Way back on the 7th of May I published a blog post with my predictions on the […]

  • M$ E3: Avatars

    There’s one huge fact about the Xbox 360 avatar system that makes me want to tell Microsoft to shove it: having to pay for stuff to outfit your avatar. Not content with milking money from users in every other way, Microsoft has decided that avatar customization will not be a free affair. What utter crap.

  • Sony E3: Final Fantasy XIII Trailer

    It’s one of the most anticipated trailers of the year, the Japanese trailer of FF XIII. Note that the blog category is Sony and doesn’t include M$, but this is because this is the Japanese trailer, a region where FF XIII will not see a 360 release. Behold the trailer of the game Square Enix […]

  • M$: Buh! Squeenix Makes a Smart, but Unexpected Move

    Many a developer has come out saying that console exclusives just don’t make any sense in this new, expensive game development environment. That being said, I’m pretty sure no one on earth outside of Square Enix could possibly have predicted that Final Fantasy XIII will be simultaneously launching on both the Xbox 360 and PS3 […]

  • Game Overview: E3: Rock Band 2 Track List

    E3 started yesterday and the amazing Rock Band 2 tracklist was announced in a press conference. I could gush about a ton of these songs in massive detail, but instead I’ll just post the list and let the tracks speak for themselves (list borrowed from this IGN article): # Artists Song Title Decade 1. AC/DC […]

  • Embedded Reporter: The Coolest Coffee Table Ever

    Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter. As someone who is in the market for a decent new coffee table, I couldn’t help but wish that this one in particular would be the best possible choice for a guy like me. Best part about it is, it actually functions […]

  • Big N, M$, Sony: Mega Man 9

    If you read my 8-bit All-Stars feature you know I love me some Mega Man 2. There was just something sublimely perfect about that game with its polished level design and great boss battles. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a real sequel to a Mega Man game. The last canonical MM game […]

  • Game Overview: E3

    Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. It’s that time of year again, E3 season. Come next week the nonsense will begin yet again in California, but in the same diminished capacity it showed up in last year. The relevance of the […]