I wasn’t impressed with Revenge of the Sith. Indeed, I was bored out of my skull by the film. I generally don’t tell people that, though. I manage a video game store. My customers have seen the film multiple times, and it’s not unusual for three or four each day to rave about how awesomeContinue reading “On Talking about Star Wars”
Category Archives: Video Games
On a Bulletin Board
I’m in Durham at their new mall, Streets at Southpoint. I’d driven out there to pick up a few games–Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas had come out that morning for the PC, and my store had sold out. The Southpoint store, though, had extras to spare. So, with new Coldplay in the car stereo, IContinue reading “On a Bulletin Board”
On Conker: Live and Reloaded
Conker: Live and Reloaded, the XBox remake of the Nintendo 64’s Conker’s Bad Fur day has gone gold. A release at the end of the month for this highly anticipated title is now assured. What is Conker? Well, it’s a video game about a fluffy, cute squirrel. A very naughty cute squirrel. He drinks. HeContinue reading “On Conker: Live and Reloaded”
On Batman Controllers
Woo-hoo! Batman controllers for the Xbox!
On the PlayStation 3
Sony unveiled the PlayStation 3 last night, their latest salvo in the video game wars. The use of the Spider-Man movie font on the system console is kinda cool. The XBox 360 has a plain, Arial-esque font, while the PS2 has that nifty, angular Spider-Man font. I like. 🙂 The initial report says a springContinue reading “On the PlayStation 3”
On the Xbox 360
It’s hither, thither, and yon in the news–the sucessor to Microsoft’s Xbox, the Xbox 360, will release this fall. I pre-ordered mine at work today. I’m looking at it as a long-term layaway. Six months until the system comes out. Each paycheck, put down another twenty, thirty dollars. Rock on!
And now it's here…
Today’s the day. Lego Star Wars comes out today. Yippee!
On WarCraft: Dragon Hunt
I bought at Barnes & Noble yesterday Dragon Hunt, the first volume in Tokyopop’s WarCraft: The Sunwell Trilogy manga, written by Richard Knaak, author of three WarCraft novels from Pocket Books, and illustrated by Jae-Hwan Kim. This first volume is slim, weighing in at about 150 pages. I read through Dragon Hunt in about twentyContinue reading “On WarCraft: Dragon Hunt”
On MLB 2006
A new baseball video game released today–MLB 2006 from 989 Sports for the Sony PlayStation 2. I may have to pick this game up–of the baseball games released for this season it’s the only game to have the Sosa/Hairston trade between the Cubs and the Orioles. The other games–EA’s MVP 2005 and Sega’s MLB 2K5–haveContinue reading “On MLB 2006”
On the Long-Term View
The Narnia quiz the other day started me thinking. There’s a film based on The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe coming out in December. There will be a tie-in video game as well, for at least the PlayStation 2 and XBox, probably GameBoy Advance, perhaps even GameCube, PlayStation Portable, and who knows what theContinue reading “On the Long-Term View”