Tag Archive for 'video games'

You don’t know Jack

Oh, Jack Thompson, you poor deluded old idiot. I know Jack’s disbarment hearing is old news at this point but a lot of my readers don’t follow this kind of news on a regular basis.

Jack Thompson with his favorite video game
Jack Thompson is the florida lawyer who deems himself as a “moral crusader” who [...]

No more ninjas?

According to an interview with Tomonobu Itagaki over at CVG, it’s the end of the line for both the Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive series of games. Itagaki is the famous creator of both those hugely popular video game franchises. He states in the interview via a translator from his native Japanese [...]

Long weekend

Not that it was longer than the standard two days, but this did end up being a nice long weekend. I would tell you all about it, but my wife has already gone through all the trouble of writing it all out, so I will just ask that you go read the details at [...]

Warhammer MMORPG

Although I would really prefer a Warhammer 40K MMORPG be created for my entertainment, I’m not above being interested in the alternate universe of Warhammer Fantasy.  It’s not as interesting to me but at least it’s something.  The online game version, which has been in development for a very long time now, has been shaping [...]

Giant Bomb

If you’re not familiar with the whole Gamespot fiasco late last year (where a premier editor was fired after giving a bad review to a heavily advertised game), this Ars Technica article shows a timeline of his firing followed by the departure of five more major Gamespot staff, many of which claim say has to [...]

Sick day today

I’m back from Kuala Lumpur but I had to take a sick day today.  It seems I ate or drank something that has turned my intestines into a juice factory.  I had water at one or two restaurants and by the time I was supposed to be leaving for the airport, I was still worrying [...]

Who you gonna call?

Original tip off from Insomnic.
Here’s another article about it from the BBC. Considering the age of the actors that they’ve signed on for the likenesses and voices of the new Ghostbusters video game, it’s probably a good idea to continue the storyline after Ghostbusters 2 in a video game where age is irrelevant. [...]

Why can’t I get awesome Japanese video games?

The question of “Why can’t I get awesome Japanese video games?” was asked in the comments by Shannon and I feel compelled to give my thoughts on the subject. I paraphrased the question, so I hope I got the gist of it correct.
Living in St. Louis (or the surrounding areas) for pretty much all [...]