Game Commentary Archive

  • A FEW MONTHS AGO, after Activision announced 600,000 subscribers had left World of Warcraft, I wrote a long post describing my thoughts why. To sum up: daily random heroics, which […]

    WoW: The Decline of Cataclysm, Part II

    A FEW MONTHS AGO, after Activision announced 600,000 subscribers had left World of Warcraft, I wrote a long post describing my thoughts why. To sum up: daily random heroics, which […]

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  • THERE’S A RARE PHENOMENON happening this week in the gaming world: reviewers are almost unanimously slamming a big-name release. They’re not even waffling with “ifs” or “maybes,” but absolutely vilifying […]

    Reviewers To Duke: Come Get Some

    THERE’S A RARE PHENOMENON happening this week in the gaming world: reviewers are almost unanimously slamming a big-name release. They’re not even waffling with “ifs” or “maybes,” but absolutely vilifying […]

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  • AS A COMPANION to my “100 Games of E3” post, I’ve also put together this list of must-see videos that came out of the show. Some are trailers, some are […]

    E3 2011: Must-See Videos

    AS A COMPANION to my “100 Games of E3” post, I’ve also put together this list of must-see videos that came out of the show. Some are trailers, some are […]

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  • ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES of a show like E3 is simply getting a grasp on everything being shown: who’s showing what, what surprises might turn up, and how the […]

    Sluggo’s 100 Games of E3 2011

    ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES of a show like E3 is simply getting a grasp on everything being shown: who’s showing what, what surprises might turn up, and how the […]

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  • THERE’S NO SUGARCOATING IT: this E3 has been kind of boring. There have been two big hardware announcements – Nintendo’s Wii U and the PlayStation Vita — but in terms of […]

    10 Things That Would Have Made E3 2011 More Exciting

    THERE’S NO SUGARCOATING IT: this E3 has been kind of boring. There have been two big hardware announcements – Nintendo’s Wii U and the PlayStation Vita — but in terms of […]

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  • All the big press conferences are over, so to wrap up that angle of E3 2011 up, here’s my final grades for each: Electronic Arts: B+. They didn’t have any […]

    E3 2011 Press Conferences: Final Grades

    All the big press conferences are over, so to wrap up that angle of E3 2011 up, here’s my final grades for each: Electronic Arts: B+. They didn’t have any […]

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  • THE SMOKE IS STILL CLEARING from Nintendo’s press conference, and I think more than anything, what we’re realizing is that we’ve been victims of a poor presentation. There’s clearly info […]

    Wii U: My Mind Is Boggling

    THE SMOKE IS STILL CLEARING from Nintendo’s press conference, and I think more than anything, what we’re realizing is that we’ve been victims of a poor presentation. There’s clearly info […]

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  • WITH THE EXCEPTION of the PlayStation Vita being revealed, there weren’t many major headlines at E3 2011 on Monday. That should change Tuesday as Nintendo prepares to unveil its new […]

    E3 2011: Nintendo Press Conference, Live

    WITH THE EXCEPTION of the PlayStation Vita being revealed, there weren’t many major headlines at E3 2011 on Monday. That should change Tuesday as Nintendo prepares to unveil its new […]

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  • MONDAY AT E3 might have been more notable for the lack of overall headlines, for stories we were hoping would appear but didn’t, or things publishers wanted us to pay […]

    E3 2011: Monday’s Non-Stories

    MONDAY AT E3 might have been more notable for the lack of overall headlines, for stories we were hoping would appear but didn’t, or things publishers wanted us to pay […]

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  • IT WASN’T REALLY a big headline day at E3 2011 on Monday, despite four major press conferences. In fact, the day might have been more notable for things that weren’t […]

    E3 2011: Monday’s Top 5 Stories

    IT WASN’T REALLY a big headline day at E3 2011 on Monday, despite four major press conferences. In fact, the day might have been more notable for things that weren’t […]

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