Playing The Game Archive

  • Will the fancy-pants Jabulani perform at altitude at the World Cup?

    Will the fancy-pants Jabulani perform at altitude at the World Cup?

    Posted on May 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Football (soccer) writers are typically terribly serious about what they do. Relax, buddy, it's just a game. A fun game, yeah, but just a game. The Guardian's Barry Glendenning does things a little bit differently: he's actually good! In a column today, Glendenning prepares us all for the inevitable complaints that will surround the Jabulani's performance at the World Cup. It's a time-honored tradition, complaining about the new ball: the ball is too heavy, the ball is too light, the ball swerves too much, the ball swerves too little, etc. Most accurate ball ever created? Obviously you haven't seen a Michael Carrick pass.

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  • Review: AAARR! AAARRR! Kill Zombies with Zombie ShootAR.

    Review: AAARR! AAARRR! Kill Zombies with Zombie ShootAR.

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Zombie ShootAR (get it…AR as in Augmented Reality) is a fun and innovative first-person shooter for Smartphone that pits you against a legion of virtual zombies. You play the game by using your phone’s camera and screen to search for, shoot, chop-up or otherwise destroy the virtual zombies that appear integrated into your surroundings via [...]

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  • Left 4 Dead 2 DLC now available. Too bad Xbox 360 players have to pay for it.

    Left 4 Dead 2 DLC now available. Too bad Xbox 360 players have to pay for it.

    Posted on April 22, 2010 | No Comments
    There's pretty much no need to write this next story, especially if you're a fan, but... Valve, darling developers that they are, have released the very first DLC for Left 4 Dead 2, The Passing. I was supposed to mention this fact this morning, forgot about it, then logged into Steam to see something downloading. "What the heck is downloading? I don't remember authorizing this? Oh, it's the L4D2 DLC. Wasn't I supposed to write about that?" As you can see, I live a very exciting life.

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  • How many of you would pay a monthly fee to play Call of Duty?

    How many of you would pay a monthly fee to play Call of Duty?

    Posted on February 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Nobody has confirmed anything, but let's assume someone on Activision Blizzard's payroll is currently creating a massively multi-player Call of Duty game. The company's CEO, Bobby Kotick, recently expressed enthusiasm toward subscription-based games during the company's fourth quarter conference call. "If you think about the success that we've had in other product categories on subscription [presumably World of Warcraft, which had as much to do with Activision as I did with the Manhattan Project], you can get a sense of the direction that we want to take that franchise [Call of Duty]," he said. Or translated from corporate-speak into English: "You're damn right we want to make a Call of Duty MMO. Monthly fees to have people play pew-pew-pew? Yes, please." But is that a wise move?

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  • Mass Effect 2 for the Xbox 360 has leaked. So, you know.

    Mass Effect 2 for the Xbox 360 has leaked. So, you know.

    Posted on January 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Oh, the ironing. Big Daddy Cool, John Biggs, just interviewed Casey Hudson, from BioWare, about Mass Effect 2. It was streamed live! The beauty is, while they were talking about the game, kids with modded Xbox 360s all over the world were already playing the game. Yes, the game has leaked. Granted, it's only a few days before the game actually comes out, but still, the biggest release of the year (so far) is now available where you find such things. I'll be getting the PC version via Steam, thank you very much. (There's nothing after this. Clicking Read More is a waste of your time.)

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  • You will be impressed by the latest Perfect Dark for Xbox Live Arcade screenshots

    You will be impressed by the latest Perfect Dark for Xbox Live Arcade screenshots

    Posted on December 7, 2009 | No Comments
    I literally just said “Wow!” out loud looking at these screenshots of Perfect Dark for Xbox Live Arcade.

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  • Celebrating 5 years of World of Warcraft

    Celebrating 5 years of World of Warcraft

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    World of Warcraft turns 5-years-old today. Back on November 23, 2004, a year before the current generation of video game systems even began (with the launch of the Xbox 360), Blizzard released the massively multi-player online game at a time when massively multi-player online games were still largely the haunt of hardcore gamers, people with fast Internet connections who were willing to pay $15 per month for access to a game that they already bought. Who can forget the message board threads: Why do I have to pay for a game that I already paid for at the store? How do you beat the game? What happens if and when I stop playing?

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  • Hopefully this Borderlands trailer gets you playing the game

    Hopefully this Borderlands trailer gets you playing the game

    Posted on October 29, 2009 | No Comments
    You’ve heard of Borderlands, right? It’s one of the new FPSs out there but forget about the rest, you must play this game. I just started yesterday after beating Prototype (another killer game) and I have to say I’m hooked. So far I’m getting the vibe that the game is kind of like a cross [...]

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  • The early days of John Madden Football

    The early days of John Madden Football

    Posted on August 31, 2009 | No Comments
    MaddenGreat article over at Edge Online for anyone interested in the early days of EA's John Madden Football franchise. Did you know that one of the first versions of the game was initially 7-on-7 due to memory limitations? Madden himself put the kibosh on that one right away, saying, "What’s this seven-on-seven? This isn’t football. If my name’s going to be on something it’s got to be 11-on-11."

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  • Blizzard’s World of Warcraft Armory App for iPhone looks darn good

    Blizzard’s World of Warcraft Armory App for iPhone looks darn good

    Posted on July 16, 2009 | No Comments
    This is the only World of Warcraft iPhone App you'll ever need. Blizzard has just released World of Warcraft Mobile Armory, which gives players of the game full access to the Armory. (The Armory tracks player and item stats and the like. It's essential for “real” players of the game.) So add this App with a few trips to WoW Wiki and Thottbot, and you're a mobile WoW warrior (but not necessarily Warrior).

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  • Review: Punch Entertainment kills it with Reign of Swords: Episode 2

    Review: Punch Entertainment kills it with Reign of Swords: Episode 2

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Reign of Swords: Episode 2 won’t reinvent a genre, but it will leave you wondering why more games aren’t made with the same artful precision as this is. Brought to you by Punch Entertainment, Reign of Swords 2 is a rock-solid turn-based strategy (TBS) game for the iPhone, and will provide you with hours upon [...]

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  • Tap Tap Revenge 2 gets iPhone Push Notifications

    Tap Tap Revenge 2 gets iPhone Push Notifications

    Posted on June 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Tap Tap Revenge 2 now supports Push Notifications, allowing you to invite friends and neighbors to play against you through the network. The system basically pops up a little invitation message when your friends are playing the game. Millions of years of human evolution brought us to this point. via 9to5

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