November 2, 2011 in Gaming News
Tags: backlog, bad games, irl interferring with gaming, productive summer, q2 distractions, summer hit list, too busy to game, valuable time, what to play, zelda | No Comments »
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 [...]
June 1, 2011 in Gaming News
Tags: alice: madness returns, alma, collector's edition, day 1 studios, duke nukem forever, ea games, f.3.a.r., fear 3, financial threshold, fps games, funny games, games to buy, games worth buying, horror games, hot summer releases, june 2011 release, master quest, ocarina, paxton fettel, ports, red faction: armageddon, remakes, summer releases, volition, wallet post, warner bros., why I am not buying zelda 3ds, zelda | No Comments »
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 [...]
January 11, 2011 in Gaming News, Opinions, Reviews
Tags: 2010 recap, 2010 releases, bad company, best games of 2010, castlevania, charts, completed games, conventions, ddo, dead rising, donkey kong, dragonquest, fallen earth, games I beat, games I played, global agenda, golden sun, graffs, graphs, i like numbers, interviews, itzkoopa's reviews, just cause 2, kirby's epic yarn, league of legends, mario galaxy, mass effect 2, medal of honor, metroid, mmogs, nba jam, pie charts, prince of persia, resident evil 5, starcraft ii, stats, warhammer, year in review, zelda | 1 Comment »
Hmm, only 22 games completed this year. That’s a far cry from the 36 that I completed in 2009. A whopping 39% drop in games completed. I wondered why that was, so I decided to make this post a lot more visual with tasty pie charts. What immediately jumped out was the amount of games [...]