Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Tipa Rock Band’s first complete album download is not… Nevermind or Who’s Next, as we’d been told. It’s Boston’s first album, Boston, which has pretty damn near all the best songs they ever did (I like “Cool the Engines” and “Amanda” off their third…) Did I buy it? Um yeah kinda immediately. Back in high school, … Read more
I just want to start right out with a warning: Sins of a Solar Empire and sleep are incompatible. You can have one or the other; not both. Sins is three games rolled into a yummy package. It’s a 4X game (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate) where you start out in control of a single … Read more
I haven’t done even a tenth of the gaming I usually do in a given week. Between my sister Hillary getting hitched in Boston; my sister Genjer and niece Jazzmin coming up from NYC to spend Easter weekend here in Connecticut; and the siren’s call of Rock Band demanding the return of the (in)famous Buzzkillaz, … Read more
Back in the early 80s, I was too totally proud of my roguelike, real-time dungeon crawl game imaginatively named TG (The Game, clever, huh?), which had some all-time design wins like being real time, fast-paced, and required you to type all your actions out in Zork-like sentences. When a dragon is tracking you down, typing … Read more
Here’s the contest (no prize except everlasting eternal fame… you know, if you’re into that kind of thing). Each day, go to the US Patent and Trademark Office website. From the menu on the left, click “Trademarks” and from the popup menu, choose “Search TM database (TESS)” Select “Freeform Search” Enter “Sony Online Entertainment”[ON] AND … Read more