I’ve been trying to limit my posts about Street Fighter to one per week, but I’ve been playing the crap out of the game, so it occupies a good bit of the video game namespace in my mind. And although I’ve been having a lot of fun with it, I do have some complaints I […]

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Although Street Fighter 4 isn’t the first game I’ve played that uses Games for Windows Live, it’s the first game I’ve played that makes significant use of it. And while I’ve heard others’ complaints about GFW Live often enough in the past, this is the first time I’ve really experienced it personally. I set up […]

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Moving target release dates kill me. Staggered release dates are worse. I’ve only recently realized how many games I’d expected to be playing by now that I’m still waiting for. The one frontmost in my mind is Trine. The game has intrigued me since I first heard of it, but the fact that my wife […]

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I’m sure it’s happened to all of us. You’ll be playing a game, and some minor bug or poorly-designed sequence in the game just drives you up the wall. I suppose this is unavoidable. But when I see the same issues time and again in different games, I can’t help but wonder if they couldn’t […]

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In a recent comment, Brandon asked “MadWorld disappointing?  How is that even possible?” So I figured I’d take this time to explain how I managed to be disappointed. It wasn’t really as difficult as you might think. Since I’m primarily making a point here, this article will be more of a complaint about the game […]

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It’s a sad truth that I’ve been let down by a great number of games recently. Perhaps my expectations were too high, but I’m having more fun with Final Fantasy XII and Thief: Deadly Shadows now than I have with most of the newer games I’ve tried. I haven’t gotten very far into Far Cry […]

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When they said you’d be fighting bugs in this game, I think I mistook their meaning.

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I just read an article in Ars Technica about Microsoft’s newly granted patent for real-time censoring of audio streams. I’ve got some mixed feelings on the subject. On one hand, I’m a firm believer in John Gabriel’s Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory, but on the other hand, I’m fairly wary of censorship. I don’t play a […]

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Well, it’s been a few months, time for game developers to start complaining about used game sales hurting their bottom line.  Even the sales juggernaut that is Halo has to throw their helmet into the ring and say that the used game market has undoubtedly hurt their sales. Here’s the quote that bugs me the […]

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Ok, so not all game designers. Hell, I’m sure that most of them are fine, upstanding, young men and women, but lately, I’ve been playing some games where the design choices are so infuriating, that I feel the need to round up the various designers and smack them. At the very least I’ll voice my […]

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