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:

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 Big Blockbuster Media Week

There was a lot of speculation that the release of Grand Theft Auto IV (GTAIV) would hurt the ticket sales of the first summer blockbuster, Iron Man. At least in the “movie industry,” which needed to find some excuse for why other movies had flopped near big video game release dates.
This week proved those assumptions [...]

Best. Game. Ever.

Grand Theft Auto IV’s (GTA IV) release was never in doubt to be a media sensation. The newest installment in the open-world-free-for-all-violent-shooter-with-hookers series has already been panned by lawyer Jack Thompson and others who think GTA will cause us to go pick up hookers and then kill them and spend their days shouting “think of [...]

Wii Sells Big, But No One Is Buying Games

The New York Times opens its technology headline article with:

Nintendo sits atop the home video-game market. Its Wii, though lesstechnologically advanced than Microsoft’s Xbox 360 or Sony’s PlayStation 3, continues to outsell those machines and is now in more than 20 million homes.
So why are retailers having so much trouble selling Wii games?

They go on [...]

Cubs Sweep Pirates, 37 Shot, 2 Stabbed, 7 Dead

See what I did there?
Ads for the popular and probably-to-be-best-selling-game-of-all-time Grand Theft Auto IV (GTAIV) were put on buses and trains in the city of Chicago, and a crime wave ensued. Because of the ads. Seems pretty reasonable right?
Well according to Fox’s local affiliate in Chicago, it’s exactly what happened:
Last weekend, Chicago saw quite a [...]

Nothing Is Perfect… So What About The “Perfect Score?”

Reviews of any form of media: television, film, music, books, video games, etc. are rarely a consensus. Look at Rotten Tomatoes’ best of 2007. Only 3 movies out of 100s received a 100% consensus that they were overall good movies, and even those 3 did not receive all “4-star,” “A+” or “10/10″ reviews, but a [...]

No Seriously, Everyone Is Doing It

This year’s NPD (a sales tracking group) report found that 72% of Americans are playing video games up from 64% in 2007. They don’t make any radical conclusions about WHY this is happening, but I have a feeling we can point to a few titles here: Rock Band/Guitar Hero and Wii Sports. Both of which [...]

School Shooters All Play Video Games (Also: All Have Cell Phones)

It really irks me when the media grabs a hold of the these school shooting stories (which are horrible things to happen), and immediately place the blame on something, anything, they can find. And the easiest target is of course the media, specifically video games. Kotaku picked up on this incredible inaccurate reporting from the [...]