A pile of raggedy sheets that pass for a bed. A bookcase packed with more video games than works of literature. Half a dozen rodents writhing in a brackish mire of decaying Hot Pockets and T-shirts that have only dreamed of detergent.
How GameStop Rollovers Competitors during the Holiday in Sales
Because they’re crabpeople!
Oxford Study Utilizes Tetris to Reduce Trauma
Fitting blocks perfectly together is quite soothing.
From Gauntlet to Left 4 Dead - the history of co-op gaming
Next up, Worst co-op. I nominate Fable II
Play Street Fighter II by using YouTube
Youtube just got even better.
Characters you never knew had the same voice actor
Spyro and Chihuahua? I never knew.
Are ‘Casuals’ Killing Gaming?
If they do, then Nintendo will rule the world.
A Look Ahead: Upcoming PSP titles of 2009
Is this the year my PSP will finally be turned on?
Valve: Pirates Are Just Underserved Customers
Thank you Valve, for treating every person as if they were money.
Online gamers in China must soon register with real names
We need to check for illegal performance enhancers. Have you’ve seen how fast their hands move?
The evolution of video game controllers, illustrated IKEA style
News worthy? perhaps not. But boy, do I love IKEA.
Tetris is one of those rare games that even your grandparents have played. Alexey Pajitnov’s quintessential puzzler has kept folks glued to their controllers for over twenty years. However, for some patients diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), there may be more at stake than high scores and cleared lines.
Gamer Culture, Metal Gear Solid
There are thousands of video games in the world that deserve your attention, but walk into any GameStop and one thing is immediately clear: there are a lot of games out there that simply don’t call for multiple playthroughs. It’s like eating at Taco Bell: you may have enjoyed (tolerated?) your meal, but it wasn’t so great that you wanted to go back again. Ever. But then there are those select few games that you can never get enough of, that only get better every time you go through them—the Benihanas of video gaming.
Of course, the only way to really test the replayability of a game is to let it ferment for a while, so nothing on this list is from the current generation of consoles. Also, much like any list, these choices are up for debate; while I can’t imagine anyone out there who wouldn’t enjoy another game of Chrono Trigger, it’s entirely possible that such people do exist. So feel free to disagree with or add to this list in the forums. Now, without further ado, the games I simply can’t get enough of:
Mind Tribe, a technologically-oriented engineering company, self-professedly dreams great things in the future: their headquarters will be composed of “celebration bricks”, which, depending on your expression, posture, gait, and temperature, will challenge and/or celebrate you as you walk alongside the office. But that’s still the future. Not quite to this degree of engineering genius, they are making baby steps toward this dream with a plasma television screen in their front window which, in bright reds, fiery oranges, and Joanna Chao’s clouds/eerily happy gummy bears, proclaims “Play here! …With your cell phone.”
Touchscreen technology has added a new dimension to gameplay with the advent of the Nintendo DS and iPhone, but some may feel limited by their tiny gaming area (especially those of us with gigantic hands). However, one game of Missile Command is showing that touchscreens can be threateningly huge, too.
