Business, Headlines, Interviews
Facing a troubled economy and disgruntled investors coming to collect $240 million worth of debt, video game publisher Midway is looking to cut the fat by cutting it’s payroll: CEO Matt Booty has announced plans to ax some 25% of it’s workforce and cancel several unannounced games.
Game Design, Gamer Culture, Super Smash Brothers
Bringing two great things together can be sweet, like chocolate and peanut butter. Sometimes, however, it’s a disaster. Since the 1990s, video game companies have experimented with franchise team-ups with mixed results. Some were great ideas that were poorly executed. Others never should’ve made it to the drawing board. Be careful what you wish for, fanboys, because for every Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, you get one of these…
Robots are as much a part of gaming as growth-inducing mushrooms and seemingly endless collectibles. In a wide variety of genres, gamers are given the opportunity to engage in cybernetic shenanigans, whether it’s building, destroying, riding, or flat-out being a robot. At first, I thought it’d be a good idea to try and rank some of gaming’s greatest robots; after all, gamers love their ordered lists. Try as I might, however, I just couldn’t bring myself to rank them. Instead, avoiding the whole apples vs. oranges argument altogether, I thought I would share with you some of my favorite robots from my personal gaming experiences in a list with only a slightly particular order.
Is your roommate not taking out the trash? Has the subject matter of cleaning become an epic battle amongst your house’s inhabitants? Then why not address this issue…Mortal Kombat-style? Detroit-based sketch comedy troupe These People Comedy teach us how to duke it out when your household looks more like a war zone! From grenade hot potato to bicycle-jousting, you will surely learn how to pwn your roomie in a variety of different ways from this informative yet hilariously entertaining video.
Game Design, Playstation 3, Technology, Xbox 360
You’ve seen them before: Marvel vs. Capcom, Capcom vs. SNK, and now this, from a place where fictional universes collide comes another fighting game of mash-up mayhem: Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Midway has kept the much-anticipated roster a secret, but this past week, only months away from the game’s release, they finally spilled the beans.
No matter what your game preference is, most of us have one thing in common: we saw a lot of memorable cartoons in the 80s. Kids growing up these days aren’t as lucky. Gone are the Saturday morning gems we once knew, replaced with boring educational shows that often only succeed in teaching kids to go elsewhere for something mind-numbing if they can’t find it on television.
Gamer Culture, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360
Do you hear an echo of a Mario coin out of the corner of your dream when you first wake in the morning? Have you ever tried to use your company stapler to secure the perfect headshot? Do you tell your girlfriend that you have a “headache” so you can crawl back to the PS3 without protest? If so, you just might be able to make the grade in the ultimate test of gamer commitment!
How Much of a Gamer are You?
It began with a tragic, though not entirely uncommon, news story in December: “Johnstown - A quiet, working-class neighborhood in this small town 40 miles north of Denver quickly became distraught over the news of the death of a popular 7-year-old girl, who allegedly died from abuse by her older sister and her boyfriend.
