There’s no doubt that Nintendo has provided us with a colorful cast of characters through out the years. As we’ve grown up attaching ourselves to the various characters, we rarely take a step back and realize how original they really are. Some of them at least. Ok, so I’ve given Nintendo a bit of praise [...]
Before getting into the meat of this story, let’s make one thing clear. There’s a difference between hackers and cheaters when it comes to video games, and just anything general. The word ‘hacker’ many times has some unfair connotations attached to it. What people should understand is that a hacker isn’t necessarily doing anything wrong [...]
Besides the reference to one of the best movies from the 1980′s in my post title, there aren’t too many positives to takeaway from this post. Tom Turnipseed, a lawyer and activist from South Carolina has come out with a mandate to have ‘war toys and games’ banned from release. He would instead like to [...]
It’s pretty cliche’ at this point to say Shigeru Miyamoto is always progressive in his thinking towards games. As the man who created Zelda, we’ve always enjoyed forward thinking concepts in the series. We’ve watched Zelda completely change the way adventure/fantasy games were played on the NES, and ushered in a brand new way to [...]
I’ve always had this thought, and it took this hilarious video from Dan Wilbur of Philoso-Wii to provide me an avenue to unleash it. Why do we need commentators from real sports calling our virtual games? As you think about the question, I’ll provide my thoughts on the situation. Back in 2004, playing NCAA Football [...]
I’ve never understood the idea of purchasing a product to show “support” for something. Unless proceeds are going directly to a charity or special cause. In the video game world, dropping money down to support some invisible idea really boggles my mind. For example, I have a friend that to this day will pick up [...]