In what seems a remarkably cynical, small-minded maneuver, the Republican Party in Maine has chosen to hang a popular video game around the Democratic candidate for Maine State Senate’s neck like an albatross, accusing her of …
Video Games
Angry Birds: Star Wars Beaming Up (or Whatever) on November 8
Space! A long time ago in a final frontier, Jean-Luc Skywalker and a rowdy gang of merry men stole from the stars and gave to the Sneetches who had no stars upon thars. That’s the basic premise of Star Wars, from what I …
Apocalypse MMO: Death Becomes World of Warcraft
This weekend thousands of players dropped dead where they stood in some of World of Warcraft’s greatest cities, from Orgrimmar to Ragnaros to Stormwind.
Entire populations winked out in a matter of hours, their skeletal …
How XCOM: Enemy Unknown Is Like Bowling
Since the XCOM: Enemy Unknown demo arrived, I’ve noticed an interesting line of criticism develop (or as a longtime PC strategy gaming wonk, I should say reappear) in response to the way Firaxis’s turn-based tactics puzzler …
XCOM: Enemy Unknown — Definitely Not Halo Reach 2
You’d be forgiven for mistaking the new XCOM: Enemy Unknown launch trailer for a Halo Reach 2 teaser. It’s a slick, one minute, 38 second guns-and-aliens action brief — a festival of body armor, jetpacks, green plasma and …
What’s With All the Dismal Resident Evil 6 Reviews?
Resident Evil 6 is in a pickle, caught in a narrow, lightless corridor of its own design and swarmed by critics using words like hacked off limbs to bludgeon it into Metacritic mediocrity.
I’m probably exaggerating a little. …
Sony’s Super-Slim PlayStation 3: One Step Forward, One Step Back
Last week Sony released a surprise three-quel PlayStation 3 — an even slimmer, lighter rendition of its six-year-old games console. It then dropped that into a new bundle, raised the price by $20 and declared it “the ultimate …
Take Kinect, Add Robotics, Strap to a Human and Presto — Automatic Building Mapper!
Mapping the insides of anything in real time is hard. Certainly harder than it looks in movies like The Dark Knight, where, near the end, a bat-suited Christian Bale dashes through a high-rise, taking out small squadrons of …
Bad Piggies by Angry Birds Maker Lets You Anger the Birds Instead
Maybe there really are two sides to every story. Did anyone ever stop to ask the villainous pigs from Angry Birds why they keep stealing the birds’ eggs? I mean, we humans eat birds’ eggs all the time – rarely, if ever, asking …
Sony’s ‘Day 1 Digital’ Downloads: How Much Longer Until Retail’s Demise?
Sony’s PlayStation Network-related announcement on Tuesday about “Day 1″ digital game downloads was both unexpected and inevitable.
Inevitable because digital storefronts are flourishing and putting significant pressure on …
What If Sony’s Next PlayStation Didn’t Arrive Until 2015?
Imagine the unthinkable: Sony’s next PlayStation, or whatever it’s ultimately called, arrives not next year and not the year after that, but sometime in 2015. Three years out — a lifetime in console years. Could you live …
Borderlands 2 Review: Looting with Purpose
The best thing about Borderlands 2 is that it doesn’t feel like an empty, exploitative raid on our dopamine supplies.
You couldn’t say the same about the original Borderlands, which merely proved that the numbers game of …
