It’s amazing sometimes the memories, or a place in time, that a particular song, or a distinct smell can bring a person back to. And just now I got hit with a one-two punch from my music player, armed and loaded with over twenty-four thousand tracks, and set to shuffle. And just like that – epiphany. Just now (actually a week ago today, as of this posting) I was listening to Jonathan Coultan/Ellen McLain’s Still Alive, followed by Godley & Creme’s Cry, and a thought that has been brewing in the back of my mind for sometime now, finally bubbled up to the top – and then as I said before, epiphany; sad, sad epiphany actually. The best gaming moments of this console generation, have very likely already come and gone . . . years ago. 
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July 15, 2012 | Categories: Entertainment, What's In Your Console? | Tags: 2010, Alan Wake, Andrew Ryan, Another World, BioShock, Bioshock Infinite, Call of Duty, Chaos Theory, Combat Evolved, Cry, Ellen McLain, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Faith, Fallout 3, Gears of War, Ghost Recon: Advance Warfighter, God of War, Godley & Creme, Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto V, GTA IV, Half-Life 2, Halo, Heavy Rain, Hitman: Absolution, Ico, innovation, Jonathan Coultan, Knights of the Old Republic, KOTOR, L.A. Noire, Liberty City, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Megaton, Mirror's Edge, Out of This World, Phantasy Star II, Portal, Prince of Persia, pushing boundaries, Rapture, Red Dead Redemption, Resident Evil 4, Saints Row 2, Saints Row: The Third, Shadow of the Colossus, Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Star Wars, Still Alive, Super Mario Galaxy, The Bizarro Year, The Last Guardian, The Last of Us, Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider (2013), Virmire, Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Ōkami | Leave a comment
The very first trailer (embedded after the break) for Grand Theft Auto V released today at noon, Eastern . . . about three hours ago. If all goes according to the series’ established schedule, then there will be a total of three more trailers (two story trailers, and one box art unveiling) before release, and we’ll be playing this masterpiece in six months (sometime in May 2012) . . . at least on console, but the video looks like it was taken from PC; there are a lot of effects there, that consoles do not handle very well. So possibly we’ll see GTAV on PC as well next spring, and not have to wait until next October/November to see it. We’ll see. And while May 2nd looks like a tentative date, if you want to place the release date exactly six months from today (and the 2nd of May, does fall on a Tuesday), if recent tradition at Rockstar is to be trusted, then it very well could be May 15, or May 22 (both also on a Tuesday). Either date, if you are a GTA fan, you are going to be playing this game in six months, so start saving your pre-order pennies now. (more…)
November 2, 2011 | Categories: Entertainment, What's In Your Console? | Tags: 1%, 2K Games, 99%, bailout, Bank of America, bottom 99%, California, crime, David Lapham, economic crisis, foreclose, foreclosure, Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto 5, Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto V, GTA 5, GTA V, GTA5, GTAV, L.A. Noire, Los Santos, Middle Park, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, R*, R* Games, recession, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Rockstar Games, Rockstar North, San Andreas, Stray Bullets, Take Two, TBOGT, Teaser, The 1%, The 99%, The Ballad of Gay Tony, The Lost and Damned, The Matrix, The Sixth Sense, TLAD, top 1%, trailer, Wall Street | Leave a comment
Jason Roberts over at Lens of Truth, wrote a great op-ed about the trend of game publishers forcing gamers to have to buy into online passes. I would highly recommend taking out the time to read the original piece, titled, The Online Pass Strikes Again, before continuing beyond this point.
I’ve been seeing this piece linked around quite a bit over the past 24 hours: saw several links for it shared on my Twitter feed, a couple shares for it on my Facebook wall, seen it show up at Reddit, among other places. The piece really seems to be striking a raw nerve with gamers everywhere. And it should, as quite frankly, the piece is spot on, and paints a pretty grim picture for the future of the hobby. Especially as costs associated with game development (currently between $30 million to $50 million for the average multi-platform game) are due to double, and potentially triple with the release of next-gen hardware right around the corner. (more…)
October 18, 2011 | Categories: Entertainment, What's In Your Console? | Tags: Aftermath, Angry Birds, DLC, Epic, Episode 2, Episode 3, expansion pack, expansion pak, Facebook, Fallout 3, Farmville, free, gaming, Gears of War, Grand Theft Auto 4, Grand Theft Auto IV, GTA 4, GTA IV, GTA4, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 3, Jason Roberts, Lens of Truth, lensoftruth.com, Netflix, Oblivion, online pass, Pavlov, piracy, pre-owned, Prince of Persia, reddit, Rovio, Shivering Isles, Steam, TBOGT, Team Fortress 2, TES4, TF2, The Ballad of Gay Tony, The Elder Scrolls, The Elder Scrolls IV, The Lost and Damned, TLAD, twitter, Ubisoft, used, Valve, video game, video gaming, videogames, videogaming | 3 Comments
What the Hell am I Doing? 