Even More Wii 2/Project Café Specs/Rumors!

posted 04-22-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Ever since Nintendo’s new console was announced, we honestly can’t stop the rumor flood. This time, they come straight from IGN who says they have “intel” on aspects of the new console, and this intel is really, REALLY specific. Perhaps this is the beginning of a new generation of game console. Let’s start with some [...]

The Lightning Round — Gaming News for Friday, April 22nd 2011

posted 04-22-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Anonymous Confirms and Denies PS3 Attacks The PSN is still down, and many people believe Anonymous is to blame. On their facebook page we were given this message. “Take a break from online gaming for a while…..it will help your skills, your health, and your emotional levels, which by the way are a bit out [...]

Portal 2 Review — Portal Is Still Alive

posted 04-22-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Portal was sort of an afterthought game that was thrown into The Orange Box pretty much for the hell of it. Then out of nowhere, the game skyrocketed in popularity due to its quality comedic writing and interesting physics based gameplay mechanics. At the point that we couldn’t click past two webpages without seeing another [...]

More Wii 2 Controller Details

posted 04-21-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Ever since the Wii 2 (or Project Café as some people have been calling it) was announced, publications everywhere have been speculating about what the system can do. It’s the controller that has most people excited. The integration of a touch screen into the center of a dual analog stick setup is an innovative move [...]

Playstation Network Goes Down Hard

posted 04-21-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Last night, when I tried to log on to the Playstation Network via my PS3, I was met with the error message 80710A06. After searching for a good half hour for ways to fix this problem, I stumbled upon a forum post that said another user was experiencing the same problem. Then I stumbled onto [...]

The Lightning Round — Gaming News for Wednesday April 20th 2011

posted 04-20-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

God of War 4 Coming Next Year Yeah, yeah. We all know Kratos died … again … at the end of God of War 3, and he also killed everyone and everything in the Greek pantheon. So how can there possibly be a God of War 4? We don’t know, but it’s happening! PSM3 quoted [...]

Razer Onza Tournament Edition Controller Review

posted 04-20-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Everyone is looking for the perfect Xbox 360 controller. The official controllers are heavy, slightly unwieldy, and have a d-pad that is made of pure fail. Sure it works fine for first person shooters, but it starts to fall behind in just about every other genre. That is why third party peripheral developers are working [...]

Yakuza: of the End Delay Explained

posted 04-20-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Yakuza: of the End was originally planned for a March 17th release date. Then, Japan got hit by a series of earthquakes and a tsunami that did unimaginable damage. Over 10,000 people were killed and many more went missing. At the end of it all, northeast Japan was in ruins. So when Sega looked at [...]

Make Old Games Look Better By Making Your TV Look Worse

posted 04-19-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

HD TV’s are brilliant pieces of technology. Back when we were using CRT TV’s we had a hard time imagining picture resolutions that were any clearer than what we had already seen. Then we sat down in front of an LCD or Plasma TV for the first time, and saw just how horribly fuzzy and [...]

Arcade Stick Saves Gamer’s Life

posted 04-19-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

The endless debate on whether it is better to play fighting games on a pad or on an arcade stick rages onward even today. Personally I think that a stick is the way to go. I say this, not because a stick gives you quicker inputs, or that arcade buttons or more accurate, or that [...]

Madden 12’s Cover Vote Gets Trolled

posted 04-19-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Stephen Colbert has taught us that you should never, ever, leave an important decision up to the masses of the internet. When given a choice, the internet will always troll you, 100% of the time. EA Sports’ Madden 12 team, is learning this firsthand. This year, they set up a 32 player vote off tournament [...]

The Lighting Round — Gaming News for Monday April 18th

posted 04-18-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Portal 2 Sort of Releasing Early The other day, a countdown clock for the release of Portal 2 was unveiled at aperturescience.com. Alongside the clock there were “computation bars” corresponding to users that were playing the indie games offered in the Steam “Potato Sack”. The idea was, if we all bought and played these indie [...]

The Wii 2/Project Cafe Rumor Round Up

posted 04-18-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Ever since Game Informer released their initial report that an HD Nintendo console would be unveiled at E3 this year, nearly every publication has been hoping on the rumor train. The amount of unconfirmed reports about the Wii 2/Wii HD’s specs have been staggering. Luckily, Kotaku has posted an article that bundled them all together [...]

Steam Slows Down Development Times

posted 04-18-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

This story is a little strange. Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock recently commented on how Steam is slowing down the development of Valve games. Stardock has created Galactic Civilizations, Elementa: War of Magic, and Impulse, a new digital distribution platform purchased by GameStop. What they don’t produce, however, is Valve games. In fact, they don’t [...]

EFF Inherits Geohot’s Legal Fund

posted 04-18-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Now that the Geohot battle with Sony is over, many of you may be wondering what he will do with all the legal funds he raised. You may remember a few months back when Geohot said that he could not afford to continue fighting Sony on his own dime. That was when he opened up [...]