All Blog Entries

Smiling_Cobra sort of sparked me to write this because of his "Charging for Downloadable Content is a Scam" discussion.

Just a quick little blog on more or less a question about digital games. Now I own a PlayStation 3 and PSP Go so I am not sure if there is a difference on the XBox 360. I was out looking at some of the new PS3 games and seeing what UMD cards I could buy. I didn't really pay much attention until I was in the PSP isle that the Downloadable games were the ...

Tags: digital games

Categories

Industry

It’s already here and people are buying into it: Downloadable content, the way to milk gamers of their hard earned cash.

Imagine someone going into a game store, buying a game that’s all shrink wrapped and their excited to play it. They get home, chainsaw the wrap off (including the annoying extra layer on the tops and sides) and pop in the game to their console. It boots up and they begin playing the game. Suddenly, a few hours in they reach an area and a message comes across the ...

Tags: dlc

Categories

Microsoft , Sony , PC , Industry , Editorial

I wanna know what people think of the ones that use the NES on a chip with ports of the games on them instead of doing what the Flashback 2 does and literally re-making the entire system.

I just started playing my Atari Flashback again the other day after doing some hefty research on it, because this NES on a chip stuff kind of fascinates me in the sense that, yeah, they're remakes (I wouldn't even consider them ports really, especially Millipede on the Flashback. It may look and ...

Yeah, totally original title isn't it? Well, I didn't feel like writing anything meaningful. Just got back from another Goodwill/pawn shop run.



Those are all PC games, and they are Red Faction, American McGee's Alice, MVP Baseball 2004, Shadow Warrior and the final one ... a budget game from ValuSoft called "Elite Forces : Navy Seals" ... laughably terrible first person shooter that crashed 5 minutes ...

The Star Wars one is obvious and cost me 4 bucks. The Sega Genesis one ... I don't know what games are on that one ... that cost me 2. Haven't shoved any batteries in it yet.

Then there are the PS3 games for the system that is still in layaway. SF4 cost me 10 bucks because it was just the disc. And Killzone 2 cost me 15.

Then there's the REAL black sheep of the bunch. A plug and play game that ...