Archive for the 'Games' Category

03 Mar

PS3 Slim

Tonight I got my hands on a PS3 slim, I decided to keep it and sell my regular older style PS3, which also had a 120gb drive in it (I upgraded from the 40gb it started with). It’s not really as pointless as it sounds at first glace, the slim uses less power which [...]

01 Mar

Final Fantasy XIII

So it’s a no-brainer that I’ll be picking up Final Fantasy XIII next week when it launches, but I still haven’t decided which console to get it for. I love the 360, especially the controller, but I hear the PS3 will have a bit of an edge this time around when it comes to [...]

20 Feb

Character Creation in Games

I generally enjoy spending a few minutes building my own toons when I play new games these days. The customization options are getting to be ridiculously detailed to the point where you can make your in-game dude (or dudette) a baby-faced tween or a wrinkled old hag that even the best wrinkle creams couldn’t [...]

20 Feb

Sore Neck from Playing Rock Band

I hadn’t played any music games for a couple of weeks and then 2 nights ago I spent a couple hours on Rock Band. The first hour on drums and then another hour on guitar. Was fun, got my ass kicked by the new Megadeth songs. I did OK on some but [...]

20 Feb

You let your kid play what?!

I like violent games, swearing is great, and being a regular guy I gotta say, I love titties. Not so much on the pixelated cartoony variety, but hey, if it fits the story line then throw ‘em in there. What gets me though is that these games are all rated M, they mention [...]

20 Feb

Bioshock 2

I’ve only played this one for a few hours so far but it’s looking pretty good. The graphics are smooth and crisp and the story is looking to be a little twisted like the first one. I’m not sure if I like playing as a Big Daddy though, he seems pretty wimpy early [...]

20 Feb

Sacred 2

I picked this game up from Goozex months ago but on my old TV it looked like crap. The text was too small to read comfortably and I could never seem to tell what was going on. Random things on the ground could have been blood splatters, outdoor cushions or small rodents for [...]

21 Jan

Decimation X

New from the guys who will eventually bring you Duality ZF comes the hot newretro shoot ‘em up ‘Decimation X’. It’s available to purchase on the Xbox Live Indie Games marketplace for the whopping price of 80 MS points, that’s roughly $1. It’s definitely worth the buck especially for people wanting a kick [...]

20 Jan

Darksiders

Ever since I first saw the cover of Darksiders I’ve wanted to play it. I had no idea what the game was about, I hadn’t seen any screenshots, I didn’t even know what style the game was. RPG? Action? Hack & slash? Didn’t matter, the cover art was just really cool.
But, [...]

16 Jan

Ghostbusters Finished Finally

I really need to get my butt in gear and finish off more of these games I’ve had on the shelf for months on end. I last played Ghostbusters in Sept. 09 and after trying a boss a few times I shut it off and went to bed. This morning I finally got [...]

29 Dec

New TV on Order!

It’s absolutely mind boggling to think of the amount of product a company like Futureshop goes through over the holidays. Take their current boxing day sale as an example. Many of the TVs they have on sale were available in quantities of 3000 or more, and they’ve sold out! I finally cashed [...]

11 Dec

Wii – I Still Don’t get the Mass Appeal

So a couple weeks ago we decided to get a Wii. Then shortly afterwards picked up a Wii fit. That’s pretty much the only thing we ‘play’ on this particular console. When given a choice of which “next gen” console to buy games for I’ll always pick the 360 or PS3 over [...]

11 Dec

Facebook Games

Facebook games are too much of a time waster. Sure they’re limited in what you can do per day, but once you start playing 5 or 6 of them it can turn into quite a time sink. I harvested then replanted some crops in Farmville. Did a bunch of jobs in Mafia [...]

06 Dec

Broke 25k GamerScore

I just broke 25000 GS tonight on the ol’ Xbox 360. Actually it was 26k but 1k of that almost feels like cheating and went by so fast I forgot about it for a minute there. Someone traded in that Avatar at my store the other day, the one where you can get [...]