I, along with probably 250,000 other folks received the launch issue of Future and Best Buy’s partnership magazine, @Gamer. My first glance at the cover and I knew exactly what this was, a glorified video game ad for Best Buy. I was wrong, it isn’t just an ad, it’s also a legitimate magazine, aaaaannnnd that’s [...]

1998 was the year that changed the world. That might seem over dramatic but it’s true. My life, my family’s life and the lives of millions of others where caught up in a frenzy that still persists to this day. Pokemon were released into America in three primary flavors, red, blue and later that year, [...]

I plowed through the game and it was rough. Prince of Persia is definitely not the greatest game I ever played and I don’t think it deserved all the praise it received. Regardless, I stuck with it and ultimately finished. I’m actually surprised that I didn’t abandon the game and start playing something else, like [...]

It was at 5:05pm on February 06, 2010, I was playing Prince of Persia and had just defeated the Hunter when up popped a notification on my screen, “20 G Now who’s the Hunter?” I stopped immediately because I knew what that meant, I had reached a Gamerscore of 10,001. I had to play a [...]

I wasn’t going to do it, I wasn’t going to finish this game. I wanted these two days of my vacation to be relaxed, with me just watching television, getting caught up on my TiVo and watching a movie or two that arrived from Netflix. Instead I played Batman: Arkham Asylum, the surprise hit of [...]

I’m not a big gamer, which might surprise many of you because I have a very long history with video games and my obsessions with them. I don’t shy away from talking about them with people who may or may not be interested in the subject, obviously this puts me squarely in the category of [...]

It is likely, if you follow the gaming scene, you have heard of “Hot Coffee“. If you haven’t, either you have been living under a rock or you don’t play video games. Well, let me educate those of you that don’t follow the industry, Hot Coffee is bad, for gaming. What I am referring to [...]

While I was visiting a favorite website of mine, Speed Demos Archive I came across a speed run of Super Mario Bros. 2 a dramatic departure from what we all have come to know of the Mario series. Albeit, this was only the second in the series in North America, therefore a strong sense of [...]

I’m only suffering if you believe that going without purchasing any games for a couple of weeks is suffering. All right, that is a lie; I just purchased Meteos a couple of days ago. There are, right now, so many games on my “I Must Have Right Now!’ list that it is going to be [...]

Sadly, all good things must end and so does another year of GameFest. This GameFest was unlike the last few GameFest, there were no rhythm-based games played. There was no Dance Dance Revolution, Karaoke Revolution, Britney’s Dance Beat or PaRappa the Rapper games. There was nearly a moment of weakness when Matthew picked up Parappa [...]

Day 2, we each really narrowed our scope of play, focusing on one particular game of interest. I chose Final Fantasy X, a game I stated playing a couple of years ago and never finished. I did, however start a new game, because if you have ever tried to continue an RPG after not playing [...]

The fest started early this morning with the moving of one more television to the living room. It was essential that this move take place early because once the group woke up it was going to be a mad dash to the gaming systems. I am exaggerating, there isn’t any mad dash, and in fact, [...]

It’s that time again! GameFest, my annual event is under way. Let me give you a bit of history. GameFest began it’s illustrious life on an innocuous trip to Target as I was buying SaGa Frontier for the PlayStation. I was talking to the employee who was ringing me through and he mentioned that he [...]