s
s
Sections
Sections
Sections
Sections
Subscribe

A smarter generation of sports fans

With my favorite baseball team, the St. Louis Cardinals, in town this weekend to play the Giants, it seems as good a time as any to talk about how sports games can enhance fans' love, appreciation and knowledge of sports.I can trace my Cardinals fandom back to the early 1980s. [...]

By | May 29th, 2009|0 Comments

Popcorn vs. PlayStation

Other than throwing needless articles in front of video game titles ("The Wii Fit"), the quickest way you can get a roomful of gamers to turn on you is to insinuate that their preferred medium is inferior to books, TV or movies. Poor Roger Ebert said back in 2005 that [...]

By | May 28th, 2009|0 Comments

“Final Fantasy XIII,” the gaming equivalent of a dubbed film?

The upcoming Xbox 360 version of "Final Fantasy XIII" may have become a little less enticing this week when one of the game's producers suggested that, because of disc-space issues, 360 owners might only get English-language dialogue.In an interview with IGN, Square Enix's Yoshinori Katase said of the game, "Obviously, [...]

By | May 15th, 2009|0 Comments

False sense of achievement

After more than a year of false starts, I'm pleased to report I've finally nailed down the elusive "Berserker's Honor: Win 10 consecutive online matches" achievement in one of my favorite Xbox 360 games, "Culdcept Saga" (rated T, $20 on Xbox 360). Other than winning 200 online matches, I've now [...]

By | May 7th, 2009|0 Comments

Franchises that should take a breather

"Rock Band" developer Harmonix, hard at work on its as-yet-untitled Beatles game, made waves recently when its CEO announced that we'd see no "Rock Band 3" in 2009. If you're disappointed, don't be. "Rock Band 2" (rated T, available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii at a variety of [...]

By | January 22nd, 2009|0 Comments