Last year Electronic Arts released a game called NERF N-Strike for the Nintendo Wii. The game merged a NERF blaster that could hold a Wii-mote and an arcade-style shooter. Reviews were middling, but the hybrid game sold enough to become EA’s second-highest grossing game of the year. Now they are back with an improved blaster [...]
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Nintendo DS & Wii Game Review: SimAnimals Africa
Early this year EA released SimAnimals, a game that allowed you to engage animals in their natural surroundings rather than in a zoo. You managed and guided their interactions and environments as you progressed further and further into a forest in a game that followed the typical ‘god game’ protocols. Unfortunately SimAnimals for the Wii [...]
Cakewalk Introduces The V-Studio 100 Portable Music Production System
While the majority of my music studio history is on the Mac, during the early ‘digital audio workstation’ days I became a big fan of Cakewalk based on their feature-packed software. The company has continued to grow and innovate, and has just announced a cool sounding new product in conjunction with another industry heavyweight, Roland. [...]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Launch Smashes Entertainment Sales Records!
There is the old saying that ‘any press is good press’, and so while the hype-filled year leading up to Tuesday’s launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 hardly needed help grabbing attention, the recent ‘leak’ of the controversial innocent-killing-terrorist portrayal video has brought loads of attention to the game. This includes making the [...]
Nintendo Wii Game Review: Spore Hero
Will Wright’s 2008 PC game Spore was hyped to the point where anything that was actually released couldn’t help but disappoint. The publishers also made some arrogant claims regarding their DRM that led to the game being quickly cracked and becoming one of the most pirated games of the year. The game offered an amazingly [...]
Spore Hero Arena Nintendo DS Game Review
The Hype: Create your Spore hero and prepare fight to become the galactic champion. An arena style fighter, Spore Hero Arena allows players for the first time to build fully 3D Spore creatures on your Nintendo DS and take them into battle. In addition, you can explore planets all over the galaxy, fight creatures, and [...]
Review: Vijay Iyer – Historicity (Jazz CD, 2009)
Because of – or perhaps in spite of – the fact that my musical tastes fall well outside of the mainstream, I have always been suspicious of something that has become the ‘latest critical darling’, even when it is from an artist I love. In recent years I remember buying ‘River: The Joni Letters’ on [...]
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2: The Stark Reality for PC Gamers
The hype has been building for months, and Tuesday we get what some are calling “the most powerful entertainment industry launch of the year, outshining even Hollywood blockbusters.” The launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. But while millions of console gamers are eagerly awaiting the release, many PC gamers are mourning what they [...]
The Dragon Has Landed … Dragon Age: Origins (PC, X360, PS3), that is!
One of the most anticipated and overly-hyped games of the year has finally arrived – Dragon Age Origins from Bioware. Like any other game ever made, there are good and bad points. For fans of role-playing games (such as me), the facts that it was made by Bioware and was being called the ‘spiritual successor [...]
Altec Lansing launches first speaker designed for Rock Band, Guitar Hero and DJ Hero
Anyone who has played in a ‘real’ band knows that adding a stage monitor drastically changes the way you hear your group. Similarly, playing the popular wave of band-based console games such as Rock Band with only the surround-sound of your home theater can make it hard to get all of the details you need [...]
T-Freestyle NW – A Skateboarding and Snowboarding Nintendo Wii Controller Unveiled
If you know Element is something other than iron and aluminum, and that Zoo York isn’t a tough neighborhood in the Bronx, and that Ollie isn’t a character from Popeye … then chances are either you or one of you kids is well acquainted with the world of skateboarding! Anyone who has played Wii games [...]
Announcing Launchpad, Music Making for the 21st Century
Anyone who has been around digital music for any part of the last 20 years knows the name Novation. They hit the scene first as a maker of inexpensive and portable MIDI keyboard controllers, but over the years have grown to be SO much more. Now they are out with their latest cool product – [...]
Combat Arms (PC FPS) Halloween Update Includes Pumpkin Heads!
So how are you spending you Halloween? If you are planning to spend it staring bleary-eyed at your computer monitor playing the 2008 online first-person shooter Combat Arms, now you can do it without missing out on the Halloween festivities! Nexon America has announced that their Halloween Update will include Pumpkin Head uniform pieces as [...]
Nintendo Announces New Larger Screen DS Gaming Device
Hold on a second – don’t check your calendar, you haven’t time-warped back to last year! Indeed, merely 6 months after the launch of the DSi, Nintendo has announced that on November 21st they will release the DSi LL in Japan, for the equivalent of $220. Read on for more details!
Leaked Modern Warfare 2 Video Game Footage Shows ‘Shocking’ Civilian Killings
When does a fictitious video game go too far? That question has been asked for decades now, since the screen images shown were barely recognizable blocks of pixels simulating every possible human activity. New footage from one of the most anticipated games of 2009, the upcoming shooter ‘Modern Warfare 2′ for the PS3 / XBOX360 [...]
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