Posts Tagged ‘gaming’

After two postings I’ve realized that it would be beyond cruel to inflict my NaNoWriMo project on my readers through blog posts. Vomiting up 50,000 words in 30 days is painful enough for me already because I have to let so many crappy words survive just to keep making my deadline. Also, I write out [...]

I recently had the chance to try out Guitar Hero: World Tour on the PS3. Yawn. The only thing I liked were the game controllers. It’s no surprise that Sony would manufacture superior hardware to that developed for the XBox or (horror of horrors) the controllers made for the Wii. But Guitar Hero’s game play [...]

Today it caught my attention that everyone’s favorite frivolously litigious inmate Jonathan Lee Riches is up to his wacky shenanigans again, this time turning his attention to Blizzard Entertainment. He is suing the gaming megacompany for making him a video game addict. Apparently Blizzard was “causing [me] to live in a virtual universe, where [I] [...]

If Generation X has the curse of having too much perspective on the significance of the Internet, then Generation Y’s plague is having none whatsoever. You can see this now as kids who grew up on MySpace enter the workforce and crash headlong into a very simple fact: putting your entire life online can put [...]

Now the prices have been lowered! One of Microsoft’s most reprehensible actions (among many) against its users has been its policy against backwards compatibility on the XBox 360. But it looks like somebody making decisions for them isn’t a completely heartless, greedy schmuck. In a surprising but pleasing move, Microsoft just announced a new patch [...]