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I miss pay phones. They were a visceral part of the urban landscape while I was growing up. Part political soundboard, part communication device, part toilet: the pay phone was always a punk rock device. It represented a true moment of freedom. When I was younger, I could conveniently be out of quarters or suddenly unable to find these things when I was running around the city after curfew.
The best thing about the original Pay-As-You-Go; meant that moments spent together were never interrupted by something typed by someone else’s thumbs.
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Game publishers have seemingly gifted us with a slew of unmitigated M-rated titles that feature more tits, ass, and zombies than George A. Romero daydreaming at a strip club. These are games concocted under a seemingly perfect corporate cocktail of girls, guns, and guts; titles like X-blades and Onechanbara Bikini Samurai Squad. Read the rest of this entry »
Playstation 3 has certainly kicked it up to high gear in the graphics department this year. First party titles have torn the eyes out of gamers’ sockets and fed them back to them in high definition glory.
Just as soon as Sony’s Killzone 2 had begun to set a new high water benchmark for console graphics, the gurus over at the official Playstation Magazine announced that Sony’s killer exclusive, God of War III, will be technically “leaps and bounds beyond anything the PS3 has seen to date.”
If that wasn’t enough to tent the dungarees of Sony Fanboys across the world, we can add this juicy statement to a long line of exclamations extolling the virtues Read the rest of this entry »
Is the next generation going to be composed of gimmicks or innovation, great game play or mass market mini-games? If the current Wii-volution that is occurring across the Walmarts that scatter the great land of America is a sign of the things to come, I may just have to hang up my gamer badge for good.
Let’s jump into the DeLorean and take a little time travelling trip back to the past: in the dark days of the Gamecube, amidst internet rumblings of Nintendo going third-party, a little white box was being secretly developed in the inner sanctums of Nintendo.
Having already launched the strange yet undeniably appealing DS, this new console had a working codename of Revolution. Read the rest of this entry »
Baseball is known as America’s pastime but Football is truly the game of American dreams. It would seem asinine to suggest that the Super Bowl is anything but a national phenomenon. That fervor for the sport has translated well to the spectrum of video games. Ever since the early days of the Sega Genesis, digital football has been a mainstay in the console gaming scene. Even though he has a face for radio, any gamer worth their salt would instantly recognize John Madden’s characteristic double chin and Children of the Damned-like white hair. Read the rest of this entry »