Archive for the 'Games' Category

Confession: I Can’t Play Scary Games

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Although I’ve known this for quite some time, I’ve only recently come to terms and admitted by biggest failure of as a man: scary video games scare the crap out of me. I’m honestly not that sure why, because scary movies don’t really bother me. I think it might have something to do with being [...]

Wario Land: Shake It!

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

The time is at hand again where we get to peek in to the deliciously unkooth world of anti-Mario. That’s right, Wario (our favorite little Plumber’s exact opposite) is back with all his wacky burp and fart fun.
Graphics
The graphics in this game are great. Stylistically he game is a giant cartoon with small video enhanced [...]

Mega Man 9: HARDEST GAME EVAR

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

As I’m sure most classic NES nerds will admit, when we first heard of Mega Man 9 we had visions of a classic remake, somewhat faithful to the original but just not the same experience. Boy, did Capcom prove us wrong! I remember* playing Mega Man (specifically Mega Man 2) and just bieng in awe [...]

Try this out: Gang Garrison 2

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Team Fortress 2 is a classic, one could say that the only way it could be better is to make it. . . . 2D? Well the guys over at Faucet (heh, get it?) have created an amazing 2D, multiplayer replica of our favorite 3D team-based FPS.
Check out version 1.0 (there are are often people [...]

Spore: Feat or Flop?

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Spore seemed really interesting to me about six months ago. As news spilled out about it I got really excited, it seemed like a really revolutionary concept and my mind was filled with little images of creating a civilization modeled after random internet creations and my own flavor of omnipotence.
As the game came to fruit, [...]