Category Archives: Gaming
Days of Ruin
Here I am excited like a little kid about this week’s release of Advance Wars Days of Ruin for the Nintendo DS. I ought to be whining about the MacBook Air or something, but nope, my focus is on this game. The last Advance Wars ate up about 100 hours of my time – probably [...]
Fallout 2 Survival Kit – Version 1.4 Available Here
With the recent news of Fallout 3 arriving I dug out my Fallout 1 and 2 discs to relive the dirt and glory once more. A bit of the way into Fallout 2 I somehow lost a key inventory item and couldn’t seem to get it back, so a little help was needed. I remembered [...]
The XBox 360 Profitability Debate Explained
For anyone I’ve talked to that thought I was completely nuts about the long-term profitability of the XBox and it’s component divisions, read this: MSFT, XBox 360 and Japan Via Daring Fireball.
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Wii60 No More
John Rodman (group product manager for the Xbox platform and Xbox Live) is quoted as saying: “We don’t feel like the Wii customer and the Xbox customer are the same thing,” Hey, we all knew that already, right? “We think that as soon as the Wii customer turns 14 they want something else.” Wow, I [...]
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I Finally Got A Wii
Yes, I got a Wii at last. You’ll probably be hearing a lot of people saying that for a few more weeks or months. Last Friday I finally got it – and I didn’t stand in line, in fact I bought it online and it showed up two days later which was sweet. I bought [...]
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Wii Art Thou?
It’s been many months and Ｉ still don’t have a Ｎintendo Ｗii of my own, but Ｉ’ve played one several times, had fun doing it, and still want one. Ｍeanwhile Ｎintendo continues to sell them like cake – perhaps if Ｉ was willing to get up early and stand in line Ｉ’d have one, but [...]
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The Death of the Arcade According to Wil Wheaton
The internet has given us so many things, including some welcome but also unexpected things like the emergence and rise to power of Wil Wheaton. Yes, you know, that formerly hated portrayer of Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Turns out Wesley Crusher was holding him back or something and now he writes [...]
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Advance Wars – Days of Ruin Mini-Review