Interesting topics today include Defend Your Castle (pictured), a riotous romp of quick gameplay and hilarious art, and Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (and you can play too!) which is essentially exactly as you expect. Both of these are available for the Wii, and are loads of fun....
Apparently Duke Nukem 3D is being released for Xbox Live. This is one of the best retro games to be released for the platform since Tapper. <insert snarky comment about Duke Nukem Forever here>...
Rez HD was released for XBox Live Arcade on Wednesday, and it's totally sweet and awesome. I've never played Rez before this week, and up until now wasn't particularly impressed with the description ("it's a rail shooter...with music...and a vibrator?"). But now that I've actually gotten in some actual ......
Beautiful Katamari was released for the 360 last Thursday. I didn't pick up a copy when it first came out (and it turns out that the local Fred Meyer didn't have one in stock on Sunday night) but Layla read my thoughts and snagged one from some local game store...
The thing about Forza Motorsport 2 is that the creators picked a reward interval that keeps me stringing along, even though I'm really getting sick of the game. Putting down Gran Turismo 2 was easy, for example, because the easy races were trivial and the hard races were so many...
Technically, Manuel did the ... uhh ... Wiiing. P.S. $5 for a web browser? Is this thing worth it? P.P.S. This thing is freakin' dwarfed by the 360....
One of the cool parts about Forza Motorsport 2 is the ability to take photos in the game and then later download them off their website—Xbox Live handles the uploading and tagging with your Windows Live account. So here are the handful of shots I've taken recently. Classic sports car...
Mouser asked a good question this morning: how does Forza Motorsport 2 compare with the Gran Turismo franchise we've all come to know and love on the Playstation? Before I answer that, I should note that the last GT game I seriously played was GT3. I've cracked open GT4 a...
I don't typically play video games, except when they're exceptionally good and I'm feeling exceptionally out of it. Well, Forza Motorsport 2 came out a few days ago, and I'm feeling way out of it. From the hour (or so) that I've been playing this, I've bought a VW GTI,...
I don't like most video games. Getting me engaged in some arbitrary plot while making me hamfist my way through an overly complicated set of controls is difficult enough when it's in a topic area I'm interested in—and usually impossible otherwise. Simply put, most video games offer very little (usually...
We've had the Xbox for a good three weeks now and I figured I'd share how useful this thing is.Playing MP3s works great. After pointing the drive to the SMB share on my fileserver, the machine indexed everything and the UI is quick and intuitive. I've got so damned many...
The #1 question I've been asked by non-Microsofties since I've started working has been, "so, can you get me an Xbox 360?" to which I have almost always said, "hah!" We've been working so hard to make sure that consumers get their hands on them that there aren't enough to...
