Editorials
Portagame: Becoming Relevant Again
Portagame.com has always had a soft spot in my heart. In the early days, I poured my heart and soul into this site and built it up to be a fairly successful portal for the portable gaming world. I loved to blog about new hardware, and loved to search for news related to my favorite [...]
Dear GameCrazy, Please Stop Abusing Non-Gamer Customers
Dear GameCrazy,
I am a gamer. I’ve been a gamer for a few decades now. I’ve also been a regular customer to your two stores in the South Las Vegas valley ever since I moved here. Your staff has always treated me with the utmost respect as they realize I know a thing or two about [...]
Let me count the ways…..the DS Lite
Why is everyone so freaking obsessed with the DS lite? I mean yeah it looks sweet, the color is awesome and the mic is a lot better. But I mean since when did Nintendo become Apple? Where everything they do is fawned over by millions of people. This is how I was thinking….till I posted [...]
Rent-A-Coder: Game Studio Edition
Hey you with your brilliant idea to make another Sudoku game for the PSP: Do you really have what it takes to think up an award winning game? Do you think your GTA clone with EBGames employees instead of hookers worth publishing? Do you just want to make a game full of really bad engrish?
No, [...]
SOTW - The Console Conspiracy
Hey All,
This weeks Site of the Week is our good buddies (and my former home) The Console Conspiracy. They have re-done their format and have also done a sweet little re-design of the Blog itself. I think it looks pretty damn cool. Check it out today and don’t forget to subscribe to their RSS feed. [...]
Bill Gates Newest Toy - The Xbox Handheld?
Hmmm. Not sure if I believe this one or not but it looks like Microsoft is getting serious about entering the Handheld gaming market. According to an article over at portable gaming world respected San Jose Mercury gaming news journalist Dean Takahashi has unveiled some interesting details about Microsoft’s forthcoming handheld gaming device, which [...]
Burnie Burns from Red vs. Blue Keynote - SXSW
Today I attended the hilarious Burnie Burns Keynote. Burnie Burns is the head of Rooster Teeth Productions. He used slides, videos and audio to talk about what’s comjing down the pipe as far as Creating Content Online.
He described it as “The Coming War”, menaing that it’s not looking good for the average user like [...]
Advertising in Video Games - SXSW 2006 Live!
Just got out a good little panel called “Convergance and Advertising“. One of the speakers was from Wild Tanget and gave a good talk about all the ways advertising was creeping into Video Games. The best part is that he was so excited about this! For those of you that don’t remember Wild Tanget used [...]
Why do Videogames Claim Lives?
So this isn’t exactly our question of the week, but it’s a good question to post to all of you over the weekend anyway. Why DO videogames claim lives? This doesn’t happen much here in the USA but overseas it’s a rare, but true, phenomenon. Want to read more about this? Check out this article [...]
CES = Boooring
So why am I saying that? First of all CES stands for the Consumers Electronic Show and you would think it would be a haven for Video Game tech nology, however the biggest news we heard from this year was GBA in your car and some new faces for your PSP. Not that big a [...]
