2011 holiday gift guide, extended remix
A much longer version of the holiday gift guide that recently ran in The Press Democrat features plenty of suggestions for all sorts of gamers.… Read More »
Ico & Shadow collection resurrects classics
A recent PlayStation 3 compilation of two PS2-era games by Fumito Ueda gives many North American gamers their first shot at playing the previously out-of-print “Ico,” a classic from 2001.… Read More »
E3: Thoughts on Day 0
On Monday, Sony named and priced its new handheld gaming device, and publishers showed off about a bazillion games. And E3 hasn’t even started yet.… Read More »
More compilations I’d like to see
The video game industry just isn’t as good as the motion picture or music industries at preserving its classics. Here are a few franchises I’d like to see get the same deluxe reissue treatment that Sony recently gave its “God of War” and “Sly Cooper” games.… Read More »
Q&A with Santa Rosa game designer Brian Lee
If you’re a regular Press Democrat or Pressdemocrat.com reader, you may have seen Clark Mason’s recent article about Brian Lee, a Cardinal Newman graduate whose team of college-student video game designers recently split a $100,000 prize for creating the best nonprofessional game for the inaugural Indie Game Challenge. While Clark did a great job of telling us about Brian and his game, “Gear,” I was interested in chatting with him gamer-to-gamer, as well as finding out a bit about what… Read More »
Time for a slow-games movement?
Reading that someone finished a well-written game in just a few short hours is like hearing someone watched your favorite movie, but skipped all the “talky” parts.… Read More »
PlayStation 3 price cut, new model
Sony’s announcement of a $100 price drop for the PlayStation 3 should signal the beginning of the end of the $400 video game console, at least until the next round of hardware.… Read More »