Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Petz Wild Animals: Dolphinz
As a general rule, I try to stay far, far away from all games involving virtual animals as pets, and that replace all S’s with Z’s. That is usually left for my daughter to review (thank Jeebas I’ll never be reviewing Hamsterz).
In this case, I was bored enough while waiting for Ymiris’ flight to land [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in DS by ophilye
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Family MMO that the kids can play?
So I was visiting massively this morning and they had a strange video posted of a new MMO called Free Play, after watching it, it became apparent that this could very well be the only MMO that both parents and young children could play together without either side getting completely bored of it, unlike [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in PC, PC RPG by Ymiris
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Burnout Paradise
Burnout has always been a game Ophilye and I could play together and have a good time, so when we heard about Burnout Paradise we were all sorts of excited. After playing it for 6 hours straight I can tell you that excitement was well founded. Not only can you play local but you can [...]
No Comments » - Posted in XBOX 360 by Ymiris
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Message boards?
Every couple of months I get an e-mail asking why we don’t have a message board. Truth be told, I dread having a message board and having it remain empty, nothing says your site sucks more then having an empty message board. But given that our goal is to bring people together to admire and [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Story by Ymiris
Monday, January 7th, 2008
And you thought YOUR video game was hard.
For all of you Mario gamers out there, I just wanted to let you know: Nintendo let us off easy.
I love that video. And I pray to the video game gods that this isn’t how they really make them. Sure it may FEEL like they set us up to fail.. but this [...]
21 Comments » - Posted in Story by ophilye
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Life After World of Warcraft
It was fun while it lasted, but we are seeing more people leave World of Warcraft than are joining. The people that have been there since the beginning are losing interest at a rapid pace, and the people just starting are outmatched. We are all wondering.. what’s next?
Wired has 3 options coming in the next [...]
No Comments » - Posted in PC RPG, news by ophilye
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Becoming a gaming couple Part 2: When he has lived in a closet his whole life.
When Ymiris wanted me to write this, I was a little stunned. We commonly hear problems about a male wanting to game in a relationship, and the difficulties bringing his wife around to his point of view. In fact, the usual response when I broached the subject to others was usually:
Step 1: [...]
