Wow. Okay. That was one of the most whiz-bang summers I’ve ever had. I traveled, celebrated, gardened up a storm (of crops) and even took on a handful of new roles in multiple aspects of my life. The flip side is that all this personal growth was detrimental to the demise of my Summer Hit [...]

PAX Prime 2011 (check LoreHound) has kept me too busy the last few weeks to do this write-up. Be happy you have that teaser instead of an “Under Construction” animated GIF. While it’ll certainly be late for a few games, the post will go up once video editing has been completed.

Well, there’s one bonus to the ungodly slow summer months, I get to beat the crap out of my Summer Hit List. And, surprisingly, I’ve been doing pretty well. August delivers me another large window of unimpeded play before the Deus Ex franchise returns to gaming. Purchased: Deus Ex: Human Revolution (August 23) – Deus Ex [...]

Remember that drought I was mentioning and that list I plan on making a lot of tick marks on? Seems that both of them are going to come to pass as there isn’t a single title until late July that is a guaranteed buy for me. There’s simply nothing coming that I haven’t already played [...]

The summer months have never been big in gamedom. The amount of titles released across the board are low, quality often following suit. There’s the occasional diamond in the rough, a title so big that a timeframe can’t contain it. By and large, there’s crap. Gamers are lucky enough to find one fantastic game a [...]

It may not be as awesome as what Nintendo offers its Japanese gamers, but Club Nintendo is the best reason I’ve seen to register a product. Ever. Extended warranties, points to redeem for gift and extra prizes for the truly dedicated make the promotion Nintendo’s best community outreach program (of which there are few).  The [...]

Nintendo’s press conference left some gamers a bit confused. Despite the fact that rumors of Wii 2/Project Cafe/Wii HD have been swirling around the Internet for months, some viewers, especially early in the conference, weren’t sure if the controller was the company was offering. I saw “Is the controller a Wii peripheral?” and questions like [...]

Temperatures here in the Mid-Atlantic area have surpassed 90 degrees Fahrenheit with humidity for a few days running now. Plants are exploding in growth, bugs are impersonating rabbits and there’s talk of the need of “SPFs” around the house. That means two directly related events, the arrival of summer and its omnipresent buddy, the Great [...]

My moth-ridden wallet has another painful month on the horizon. It appears that publishers are looking to make their final bucks of the first half of the year before summer kicks in causing adventurous gamers take to the outdoors. The mad dash to fulfill Q2 expectations and capitalize before summer is giving May an unprecedented [...]

PAX East 2011 is in the books and that means the 2011 convention season has officially started. The show was in much roomier venue this year, without any pesky traffic bottlenecks. Yet, the organizers still stuffed the video game section, the show’s main focus, to a corner of the massive complex. The close proximity of [...]