[UPDATE: It has since come to my attention that Justin Calvert was not the actual person at Gamespot who reviewed Global Agenda, he only addressed the complaints. Their review has been pulled.] I once knew a guy who said that if he wasn’t into a book by the end of the second chapter, he would [...]

Whenever a game has to install some data to the hard drive, you usually have to sit with a blank screen as a bar fills up or stare at a few screenshots or some sort of video while you wait for the install to finish. The ideal way to deal with those kinds of situation [...]

And also ‘herb’, I don’t get why you guys don’t pronounce the ‘h’!

Comedy has been around for ages, and although people have been laughing at scripts, narratives or even other people’s misfortunes for their own personal amusement, gaming seems to be more focused on simple, to-the-point dialogues that help players reach the end quickly. But like a diamond in the rough there is always that handful of [...]

What do you get if you cross Jack Bauer with Jason Bourne; probably one kick-ass agent who everyone should fear, and that is exactly the type of persona and image Ubisoft is giving Sam Fisher in his latest adventure.  Gone are the moments of relaying info back to agencies for help and advice as Sam [...]

Twitter has become quite the hotbed for all sorts of different people with a wide variety of interests.  There’s tech gurus offering up advice, celebs goofing off, politicians trying to connect with their voters, and many more types of people all finding a use for Twitter.  Gamer 2.0 is a gaming site, and so naturally [...]

Videogames have gone from making kids fat and lazy to trim and athletic, at least according to the UK’s chief medical office Sir Liam Donaldson, who is spearheading a pilot project to encourage physical activity among obese kids and teens by issuing them with Nintendo Wii’s. In a rare moment of lucidity uncommon for public [...]

So as I was sifting through GameFly and GameStop’s website earlier in the the week, looking at games to possibly review, I noticed something quite interesting.  The DSi is already coming out next month. Seeing as how I consider myself to be an extremely hardcore handheld gamer, it caught me by surprise.  The DS and [...]

I was reading this article from Charles King on GamesOnSmash (ironically similar site name, isn’t it?) and I had to repost my reply because I feel like it. In the article he asks why do we call “reputable” sites like GameSpot or IGN real sites with “real game journalists,” and treat smaller sites like the [...]

For the longest time, we’ve been seeing reports about how games do everything from making kids agressive to alchoholic, drug-abusing anti-social retards. Today, a report from the European Union says those things aren’t necessarily true, and instead could encourage creativity and cooperation “Video games are in most cases not dangerous and can even contribute to [...]