News: Kids acting out GTA IV get arrested

Here’s a bit of GTA IV related news, which could be either sad or just hilariously funny – depending on your point of view; news source here.
Teenagers who police say went on a video-game-inspired late-night crime spree were arraigned Thursday after they mugged a man outside a New Hyde Park supermarket and menaced motorists in [...]

Game Review: Serious Sam: The Second Encounter

I knew this day would come, the day where I have to do a post about a game that I have played before, and from that time, I already knew I would choose this game. This was the first first person shooter game that I have played, and I still love it up to this [...]

Gaming expenditure

Gamewire has an interesting article about the amount of monies gamers spend on their hardware toys and games. The survey was centered on North American video gamers, and notes:
“… over their peak gaming years of 18-48 the average gamer spends more than $30,500 on games and gaming hardware.”
That’s quite a hefty sum, though conventional wisdom suggests [...]

The good ol’ days…

… featured really good composers. Among these greats are the beatles, chuck berry, jimi hendrix among others. Their compositions have inspired various musical revolutions, and are regarded as legends in many circles. I, personally, adore old, vintage and quality… things. I like old cars, I like vintage guitars, and I love pretty much any piece [...]

Free MMOs

Though it’s just a few more days before the second term begins in school, if you have a bit of free time that isn’t already sucked up with subscription-based MMOGs like World of Warcraft, Gamespot has a write-up with capsule reviews of the free MMOs available.
It’s well worth a read, and more importantly, the range of games they’ve [...]

E3 games list

E3. or Electronic Entertainment Expo, is one of the several very large computer and video games events each year, with displays for the newest games and hardware in development from developers and publishers. The list of games to be exhibited has just been put up by IGN-UK. Among others, titles to be exhibited include Fallout [...]

Angry Nintendo Nerd

Hi, Wee You here! Had been busy with assignments and stuffs so I hadn’t been posting.
Just recently, my friend introduced me to the “game reviewer” known as the Angry Nintendo Nerd. He sorta reviews old old NES games in videos and upload it on the internet. I’m pretty sure they are found all over YouTube. [...]

“Hai Gais!”

(Also spelt conventionally as “Hi Guys!”)
Annyyyywaaaay. Sorry for missing last week’s (and maybe the week before that too) post! We’ve been very busy due to 2 projects being due in week 7 (for one, sorta). Its the “holidays” now, and I’ve got some time on my hands to get back to blogging here. After reading [...]

A History of RPGs

Those of us who play CRPGs, or Computer Role-Playing Games, may be interested in this article at 1UP.com. It presents a capsuled version on the evolution of RPGs. Right from the late Gary Gygax’s Dungeons & Dragons on the table-top, to the MMOs of today. An excerpt from the article reads:
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), Gary [...]

Controversies in gaming

Here’s an interesting article on some of the possibly less-known controversies in computer gaming. E.g. Activision’s ‘faked’ commercial for Call of Duty 2 for the XBox 360 some years ago, to game reviews versus publisher advertizing. E.g., a quotation from the source:
On November 13th of 2007, Jeff Gerstmann of Gamespot released this review for Kane [...]