I’ve been playing a lot of Darksiders the past couple of weeks taking a whirlwind tour through post-apocalyptic Earth as War, one of the four Horsemen.  Along the way I’ve killed many the demon, rode many the mile and amassed a collection of armaments and weapon enhancements to make Kratos proud.  I found the game […]

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After ten days of playing, I finally finished Saints Row 2 and sent my review off to be posted.  I played for about 20 hours, gained 45 neighborhoods, completed 56 missions, tried dozens of activities, earned hundreds of thousands of dollars and killed hundreds of people.  The game is great, and I had a fantastic […]

Read the rest of Confessions of a Games Journalist: Crunch Time

Parts one and two can be found here and here. As I made my way down to the hotel lobby for dinner, I was thinking about how I really didn’t want to go to this dinner. I’m not a social person, and meeting new people while having to be professional didn’t appeal to me on […]

Read the rest of Confessions of a Games Journalist: The Preview Trip pt 3

If none of this makes sense to you, check out Part 1.  If it still doesn’t make sense, then blame my crappy writing. Shortly after agreeing to go on the trip, and getting all of my travel arranged, I realized that I had a big, nay huge problem, namely that the event was taking place […]

Read the rest of Confessions of a Games Journalist: The Preview Trip pt 2

I should preface this piece with the statement that I really don’t consider myself a games journalist. I primarily review games for GameShark.com and also do preview pieces on occasion. “Confessions of a Game Reviewer” doesn’t have the same snap to it though, and in my recent trip to Vegas I did bust out my […]

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