Over the past few weeks, StarCraft has become the game of choice for me and my roommates. Sure, it’s pretty old, and we’ve been waiting for a sequel for-freaking-ever, but it still inspires discussion: yesterday, over a few slices of…
Two weeks ago, my roommates and I began a new tradition: once every weekend, our Marines, Zealots and Hydralisks meet on the fields of war to decide the weekend’s StarCraft Sunday champion. For an hour or so, amid seas of…
Every age has its prophets. The ancient Greeks had Tiresias. The Old Testament had Moses. Turn based 4X games had Sid Meier. Today’s all-knowing precognitive du jour is none other than King Quagmire. No, not that Quagmire. His royal highness…
As new games are released and new technology develops in response, we’re often forced to bid farewell to our favorites from the last generation. This is the case, I fear, with the original Xbox Live classics, such as Counter-Strike and…
If you’re one of those composers who sees his or her work in the form of brightly colored rectangles, you’re in luck: Rock Band Network, which aims to bring such tune-smiths together, is launching an open beta:
Harmonix is launching…
Hellgate: London really should’ve known better. Here in America, the suffix ‘-gate’ is mostly reserved for PR debacles, public gaffes and career-ending disasters. Deciding to name the post-apocalyptic adventure Hellgate (as opposed to Whedon’s much savvier Hellmouth) essentially doomed it…
Those crazed visionaries over at Nintendo are at it again. First, there was Wii Sports, then Wii Fit. Now, they’re moving on to a new market with a title named Wii Relax:
If a new trademark is to be seen…
