By Head881 , 24th February 12:28 pm
Portal.
No other game released in 2007 was quite the sensation that Portal was. Portal is a unique, puzzle-focused first-person shooter that clocks in at about three hours of length and, if my thorough reading of the internet is any indication, everyone and their mother has played it.
Portal has spawned a number of internet sensations since its debut. Probably the most significant, in terms of pop-culture, would be the wonderful end-credits song by Jonathan Coulton “Still Alive.” If you haven’t heard the song, you should find it and listen to it…now…and after you do, you should wait feverishly for the track to be released for Rock Band.
Another internet sensation created by Portal is the character of GLaDOS. GLaDOS is your malevolent benefactor-slash-tour-guide-slash-tormentor. She/it is a brilliantly personified, homicidal computer system that… conducts science… for those who are still alive. Also, she/it has cake. Which is another internet sensation… and a lie.
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By Head881 , 23rd November 5:17 pm
The title of the article is overly dramatic, and has probably been used before to boot.
Also, it isn’t a very accurate title. I’m not referring to all war games across all genres. The games I’m referring to are the historically-themed First-Person Shooters that have been choking the video game market for years.
One doesn’t have to look too far or too long to find examples of the games I’m talking about: the “Medal of Honor” series; the “Call of Duty” series; the “Battlefield: X” series, just to name a few. Make no mistake, I do not have a problem with any of these games in terms of their actual gameplay. My problem is with their content.
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By Head881 , 24th August 6:20 pm
I recently received Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin for my birthday a few days past, from a close friend of mine.
I’m not going to play it. Well… I’m not going to play it yet. Instead, I’m going to wait until the middle of the Fall season to start playing it. I’ll start playing Castlevania when the leaves begin to change from green to orange, amber, and crimson. I’m going to wait to play Castlevania until the days hours become further encroached by night’s grip. I’ll play Castlevania when the last of the year’s warm days are laced with winter’s cool winds.
A cursory glance at Wikipedia reveals that there has been a Castlevania game released almost annually for at least one of the available consoles or handhelds for the last twenty years. While I haven’t looked at every release to date, at least the last several have been released sometime in the Fall, near or on Halloween.
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By Head881 , 8th July 12:01 am
By now I’m sure most of the interested parties have heard, but for those of you who haven’t; Evil Avatar is reporting via GameDaily.BIZ that Sony is going to be slashing $100 US from the price of the PlayStation 3. Taking the much maligned price from $600 to a somewhat less absurd $500. No, I don’t want to hear about what a great deal it is for a Blu-Ray Player. I don’t care about Blu-Ray or the format war it and HD-DVD have started.
This was going to be an article questioning the readers as to whether or not the price drop would affect their perceptions of the PS3 and whether or not you were willing to run out and buy one when the price did indeed drop. However, Sony can’t buy, steal, or cajole good publicity these days and promptly denied they had such plans.
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By Head881 , 25th May 2:44 pm
Nintendo.
Few words mean so many things to so many people like “Nintendo.” Whether you used to play video games, currently play video games, will play video games, know some one who plays video games, or hate video games, you know the word Nintendo. You probably also have an opinion about it…or them, depending what definition of the word you are using. Despite hemorrhaging market share since the advent of the Nintendo 64, “Nintendo” was always synonymous with “video games,” though in recent years “PlayStation” has been creeping in as the generic term for the hobby.
All that has changed through the one- two-punch Nintendo laid upon the industry. Of course I’m talking about the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Wii. Both systems were initially derided when they were announced and the former wasn’t even taken seriously in the face of Sony’s PlayStation Portable until the release of Nintendogs. However, now, six months after the launch of the Wii you still have to wait in line to get one and the last time I went shopping for a Nintendo DS Lite, I had to travel between sixteen stores in a densely populated area of America to get one. One might be tempted to ask the question: “why?” Why is it so difficult to get two under-powered game systems that are (arguably) lacking games for serious gamers? The answer is quite simple: My mom wants one of each.
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