Category Archives: videogames

Tomb Raider May Have The Worst Shotgun In Video Game History

…however, after 10 hours of playing so far, that remains my only complaint. More when I finish. I’m having too much fun to rush to the ending.

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GraVITAs

After playing through Call Of Duty: The One For the Vita and Assassin’s Creed: The One For the Vita, I thought that it might not be a bad idea to actually try a game designed specifically for the system. Fortunately, … Continue reading

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Liberating

Let me just get all the bad things out of the way to start: Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation is a mess in some ways.  It’s glitchy at times, particularly with regards to character animations, the enemy AI can be as … Continue reading

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In which, I take a shameless Korean MMO a little more seriously

Yesterday, I wrote about playing Scarlet Blade with the intention of writing a snarky review about what it said about us and how far we had fallen as a species and so on.  That was a good post, I thought, … Continue reading

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In which, I play a shameless Korean MMORPG

For a couple of months last year, my go-to MMO was Tera, which was – I believe – the first and probably last ever attempt to take a Korean MMO, file some of the grindy pain off and adapt it … Continue reading

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In which, I fix a PS3 AGAIN.

Sony hardware seems to have a hard time of things in our house.  I suspect that it knows that it’s not entirely welcome and that I’d prefer an alternate universe where Sega won the mid-90s console wars and Sony was … Continue reading

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CODBLOPS:Vita

After my recent Assassin’s Creed binge, my wife got me a Vita so that I could play Assassin’s Creed: Liberation before AssFour comes out this holiday season. The store had two different packages available:  One box with the console by … Continue reading

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Hobbit Forming

It probably isn’t much of a surprise that a prolonged gap in me putting new posts up here usually means that I’ve discovered a new MMO or rediscovered an old one. In this case, it was rediscovered. Well, more like … Continue reading

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Well, I would stab five hundred mans, and I would stab five hundred more…

  So I watched both the Microsoft and Sony presentations during E3 as they were streamed, because it’s a New Console Intro Year and those are always Big Time Hype Years.  Microsoft’s Windows Phone Live Events app, by the way, … Continue reading

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A Bit Late to the Party

I’m a big fan of emulation to keep older game consoles alive – most of my Saturn gaming is done with the excellent SSF emulator, for example.  It lets me avoid needing to hook up an 18-year-old console and, to … Continue reading

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