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:

How The West Was Lost: The XBox 360

Microsoft’s Xbox 360, as far as “gamers” are concerned, should be winning the console war against Nintendo’s Wii and Sony’s Playstation 3 The console, which has only been out two years, already has one of the most critically acclaimed lineups of all-time, it’s got the superior online gaming platform, and at this week’s Game Developer’s [...]

Nintendo Blocks Goldeneye? (Part 2)

Yesterday, I criticized Nintendo and Microsoft for making a poor business decision by not releasing Goldeneye 007, one of the most successful Nintendo 64 video games of all time, and argued that from a business perspective, both companies should allow the other to release it on their respective consoles (Nintendo’s Wii, and Microsoft’s Xbox 360), [...]

The Trials and Tribulations of Goldeneye 007

In 1995, James Bond returned to theaters after a 6 year absence, with a new Bond (Pierce Brosnan) and one of the best stories in the franchise. But, for most of us that grew up in the 90s, Goldeneye will forever be remembered for a different reason:

Goldeneye 007 for Nintnedo 64
The game was developed by [...]