Posts in Video Games

While I don’t love the music (and I’m not a Halo guy), I did really enjoy the ad for Halo 3 where a grizzly battle scene is constructed out of action figures in all sorts of cool hand-painted detail. After two attempts to view the ad on official sites that didn’t work (no clue why) […]

As with most parents I have a strong sense of responsibility for making sure my kids are exposed to as many cool things as possible so as they get older the world is their oyster and not overwhelming, scary, and unknown. Giving them music lessons (my six-year-old son plays the drums, and my four-year-old daughter […]

For a long time I’ve thought of myself as a hardcore gamer. But the truth is that I’m really not. At a certain point (around the PlayStation 1) I started migrating to mostly playing sports games and casual games. There was the Tomb Raider period certainly, but that was kind of an exception. And in […]

I remember once talking to the head of game development at one of the top video game developers in the world and asking him when they would remake M.U.L.E. He looked at me a little quizzically, but then had a look of fond reminescence and said, “yeah… that would be a good idea.” He never […]

If you watch almost any TV you’ve likely seen the ad blitz from Burger King promoting their three new videogames for the Xbox 360. The deal is, you go to Burger King, buy an extra value meal, and then can purchase one of the three games for only $3.99. These are not exactly throwaway games […]