After a trying start to the week, things have begun to look up for me. I’ve gotten a lot of work cleared off my plate, we’ve embarked upon a concise plan of action to prepare for our travels in Thailand, and our roof repair has finally been scheduled for next Wednesday. Somehow, this [...]

OK, so the PlayStation 3’s raison d’être — Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots — has finally been released, bringing the legendary Metal Gear franchise to a close. As I started to read the reviews of the latest installment, I remembered way back in 1998 when I bought Metal Gear Solid at [...]

Thanks to my mom, a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360 was already waiting for me on my desk chair when Apple and I returned from Thailand. Although I’ve ramped up my side work to near epic proportions since coming home, I’ve carved out some spare hours during evenings and [...]

In a startling display of quickness, apparently my Xbox 360 has been repaired. I missed the first attempted delivery by UPS earlier, but will be on the lookout for it tomorrow. Of course, had Microsoft actually e-mailed me that my repairs were complete (like they said they would), I would have known to be on [...]

Well, the packing box for my Xbox 360 was delivered yesterday (which I discovered merely by chance, as the UPS driver didn’t so much as knock at my door), and I dropped it off at the nearest UPS Store this morning. Let’s hope it gets repaired in a somewhat timely fashion.
There was a slightly amusing [...]

Well, it finally happened.
Knowing that my Xbox 360 was purchased about five or six months after Chief Oddball’s, I’ve been counting the days since his 360 died last year, awaiting my own console’s failure. It took slightly longer than I anticipated, but this morning while playing my rented copy of Lost Odyssey my console locked [...]

December through February are typically very dry months in the gaming universe, since the industry usually pumps out all their big-name titles ahead of the Christmas season. So start saving your money now, because in March, the pace begins to pick up again.
On March 10th, the first downloadable expansion pack for Mass Effect, entitled [...]

Thoughts, observations, etc. on playing The Orange Box for the Xbox 360:

Every time Dr. Eli Vance talked, I shouted out “Benson!” and began singing the Benson theme to myself. Then I’d think, “Man, they should’ve gotten Auberjoobiedoobiedoobie to do Dr. Kleiner’s voice. Or maybe Dr. Magnusson.”
The airboat stage in HL2 is, as Jeremy Parish of [...]

The Shacknews headline reads: “Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Releasing Tomorrow; This is Real and We Are Not Shitting You.”
So says George Broussard, longtime president of 3D Realms, who today announced that a Very Special Teaser Trailer of the now-joketacular Duke Nukem Forever will be released tomorrow around noon, Central Time. This is the first [...]

Next week, on or around December 4th, Microsoft will be pushing out the December 2007 dashboard update to Xbox 360 owners. The Xbox Team today has posted the official changelog for the update, so you can see exactly what we’ll be getting.
One of the biggest changes (in my book) is that the 360 now [...]