Gaming odds and ends
sonictempest This post might be a little disjointed – I’ve been playing a bunch of games recently and thought I’d just pen down my thoughts in one single post since I…
Griping about Valve
A lot of gaming news sites and blogs trumpet Valve as one of the finest developers in the industry, regularly producing excellent games and otherwise shitting gold. I’ve certainly suggested…
I have Street Fighter IV
More coherent thoughts later, but here are some initial impressions: The physics seem weird, even for a Street Fighter game. I don’t recall having this much trouble timing jump-ins the…
Achieving nothing
I was reading a thread about the upcoming Left 4 Dead Survival Pack on one of the Internet forums I frequent today, and I came across a rather strange quote…
PC maintenance is hard
I’d really like to kick the idiot at Intel who designed the Core 2 Duo heatsink/fan assembly. I had to use a screwdriver to force that thing into its locked…
So I just played the RE5 demo on my PS3
I’ve only played the Wii version of Resident Evil 4, so someone please tell me – were the aiming controls as sluggish in the PS2 and GameCube versions of RE4…
Whittling down the backlog
This past weekend I cleared another couple of games off my backlog – Metal Gear Solid 3 and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. First off, here’s what I thought of MGS3 as…
My game collection just got 200 times manlier
Played through the first level – pretty damn great.
The future of handheld gaming? I think not
A lot of blogs seem to be making the iPhone out to be some revolutionary new device for handheld gaming. As the owner of an iPhone for about two months…
What I’ve been playing lately
Time for a good old-fashioned gaming post! Company of Heroes I finally decided to put some RTS gaming on my backlog. This game is developed by Relic, who are also…