There's No Such Thing as a Free-to-Play Game
I've tried to be fair to the concept of free-to-play games, which you see a lot of in mobile gaming. Yes, it all seems…
Crazy Expectations of a Console That Didn't Deserve Its Third Chance to Fail
If you never saw Crazy People, a 1990 film starring Dudley Moore, I highly recommend it. Basically, an advertising…
Actually, It is Kinda B.S. That Bayonetta 2 is a Wii U Exclusive
It's funny when anyone on the Internet flips out, but no one does it better than the video gamer. When the issue…
Customer Service Sucks For Those Inside the Gaming Industry, Too
Console failures don't just happen to the little people. No, they happen to gaming industry professionals, too, and…
Would You Pay $260 for Xbox Live? Technically, I Just Did
Helplessly watching this sweating man thrust all of his body weight into my bedroom wall, grunting over the whine of…
Piling On: Four Hundred Games I'll Never Finish, and Counting
Tuesday afternoon I got the Internet connected in my new home. From Wednesday morning until Thursday afternoon, my…
No Way to Trim the Pubic Hair of Console Gaming
In about a week I'll move into a new home. My mother's giving me an antique pine cabinet which she says is perfect to…
Lessons in Double-Speak, from Native Speakers
The major controversies, disappointments and outrages of the preceding week all seemed to share one trait: They…
The Lazy Security Patrolling Apple's Shopping Mall
This past weekend, readers alerted us to an absolutely contemptible ripoff on the iTunes App Store. Someone had…
Even If No One Listens, Let the Review Bombs Fall
It's easy to sit back and scoff at "review bombing," as we saw last week when Blizzard released a broken Diablo III.…
There's No Appealing to the Court of Public Opinion
If the folks behind Kane & Lynch 2 should be sued, they should be sued for something other than the "vicious vilifying"…
Black Ops II Chooses Someone Who Failed the Call of Duty
When you face low expectations, falling short of them doesn't count for much either. And that's the dirty secret of Call…
Out of Hand—Is it Ever OK to Throw a Controller?
Two weeks ago, a million-dollar contest supplied an interesting prism through which to view the reactions to different…
Trials Evolution's Soundtrack Is So Bad It's Like They're Kidding
When a game gets as many things right as Trials Evolution, it's all the more noticeable when it gets something wrong.…
Ebony and Ivory: The Xbox's Black and White Buttons, in Imperfect Harmony
Dusting off some old friends on the original Xbox I was given back in January reacquainted me with several happy…
Trademarking a Dragon Shout May Be a Good Thing
There I stood, before the Greybeards, ready to learn the truth of my existence as a Dragonborn. Einarth stared down at…
The Bewildering Technicolor Dreamcoat of the Character Creation Process
See that guy up there at right? That's "Bogeyman," my DC Universe Online homage to the Hobgoblin as created by Roger…
It's Time for the Worst Day in Video Gaming: April Fool's
Oh, great. April Fool's is on Sunday. This is the worst day, the absolute worst, in video gaming.
The self-publishing…
Loving Video Games is Right, and I Don't Want to be Wrong
It's hard for me to look at the news of the preceding 10 or so days and not feel like there's been some enormous,…
Can We All Please Ignore Roger Ebert From Now On? Thanks.
Let's stop giving a shit what Roger Ebert says about video games, and art, OK? We've tried like hell to make him into a…