2010 and Me: A Personal Journey Perhaps most surprising is how front-loaded 2010 was with great games. I was mostly disappointed by the big holiday releases, and if you weren’t predisposed to geek out over Kinect it was hard to find a lot to hang your hat on through November and January. The biggest change this year…
Exclusive Blind Review! Call of Duty: Black Ops
Another fall, another Call of Duty from Activision. With the massive shakeup at Infinity Ward earlier this year, Treyarch is finally poised to take the reigns of the franchise as the “A” team. To that end, they have put forth their latest effort, Black Ops. It’s an ambitious title from a huge team and a…
Exclusive Blind Review – Fable III
The Frog Knight As you may have guessed, Fable III is a videogame retelling of the third great fable in human history. The first, of course, being the one about it being turtles all the way down. The second great fable is the one about losing socks in the drier. Lionhead Studios, headed by Peter…
Blind Review – Medal of Honor (2010)
A Terrorist’s Tale Electronic Arts’ reboot of their classic WWII shooter series is finally upon us. Where the previous games endeavored to recreate famous battles between the Allied forces and Nazi Germany, developer Danger Close has taken a more controversial path, creating what is, essentially, a Taliban simulator. Players take the role of a nameless…
Internet Forgets that Dante was Always a Ponce
A great deal of unrest has been stirred up in the wake of Capcom’s reveal of the next Devil May Cry, developed by Ninja Theory, simply titled DmC. Most of the criticism surrounds the new design for Dante. I guess he comes off emo, or too Twilight or metrosexual, or some such nonsense. Here’s some art released along…
Blind Review – Halo: Reach
Born On Whatever Day UNSC was Founded Long awaited, Reach is the fourth installment in the Halo franchise following the story of Master Chief. At the close of Halo 3 our favorite Spartan was stricken with a severe spinal injury. Reach continues mere weeks later with Master Chief waking up aboard a VA hospital ship.…