5 For Friday: Most Wanted SNES Virtual Console Titles

The Wii’s Virtual Console has quite an extensive list of available games, but there are numerous noteworthy games still missing. Here’s my 5 most wanted SNES titles that have not already been announced (such as Earthbound) or are unlikely given rights issues:

Video Game Review: Mario Kart Wii

[For a new feature here at Wow's Media Blog, I present to you the first video game review. Enjoy!]
Mario Kart Wii, the newest of the beloved go-kart racing series featuring Mario characters was released, somewhat bizarrely, two days before that of superstar Grand Theft Auto IV. Ultimately for Mario and friends, this poorly chosen [...]

Fuzzy Math

Microsoft, the maker of the XBox 360 went ahead yesterday and gloated that they had become the first next-generation high definition console to sell 10 million units in the United States. That’s pretty exciting news huh? But I bet if you’re like me (and you’re probably not), you also noticed all those qualifiers like “High [...]

For A Laugh

A response to a newspaper editorial about video game violence:

The Problem With DLC

The future of media is, according to most large distributors, directly downloaded content. This new form of media would allow people to purchase content without ever leaving home. Movies and TV shows could be directly downloaded to our TVs, cell phones, or iPods. But in the arena of video games, the “future” is already here: [...]