5 For Friday: Most Wanted (Classic Rock) Rock Band Songs

Rock Band, the critical and financially successful faux-band video game already has quite an amazing set list between the songs available with the game (including gems such as “Say It Ain’t So” by Weezer, “Wanted Dead or Alive” by Bon Jovi, and “Dani California” by REM), and even more new songs available for $2/each every [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]