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  • THE ESA ANNOUNCED TODAY that they’d signed an agreement to keep E3 in Los Angeles for the next three years, running through 2015. The news was met with the predictable […]

    E3 Loves L.A. Through 2015

    THE ESA ANNOUNCED TODAY that they’d signed an agreement to keep E3 in Los Angeles for the next three years, running through 2015. The news was met with the predictable […]

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  • From the Well, Duh Department: Blizzard announced today that World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria will be released exactly two months from today, on September 25. And this post isn’t […]

    WoW: Pandaria Coming Sept 25

    From the Well, Duh Department: Blizzard announced today that World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria will be released exactly two months from today, on September 25. And this post isn’t […]

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  • TWO WEEKS after Diablo III was released, I’d completed the game on Nightmare and was midway through Act III on Hardcore when my gaming PC suffered a catastrophic meltdown. I […]

    Diablo III Review: Hardcore Down

    TWO WEEKS after Diablo III was released, I’d completed the game on Nightmare and was midway through Act III on Hardcore when my gaming PC suffered a catastrophic meltdown. I […]

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  • Yesterday, I was lamenting how bad the presenters at these E3 conferences have been. As if to punctuate that point, Nintendo’s Tuesday morning presentation was both consistently awkward and entirely […]

    E3 2012: Nintendo, Wii U and Pikmin

    Yesterday, I was lamenting how bad the presenters at these E3 conferences have been. As if to punctuate that point, Nintendo’s Tuesday morning presentation was both consistently awkward and entirely […]

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  • For the first few minutes of the Sony press conference tonight, I thought they might blow everyone else out of the water. But partway through, it felt like the presentation […]

    E3 2012: Sony Checks In

    For the first few minutes of the Sony press conference tonight, I thought they might blow everyone else out of the water. But partway through, it felt like the presentation […]

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  • Of all the various E3 conferences, I like EA’s current format the best: game, game, game. Every title may not be spectacular, but in recent years EA has streamlined their […]

    E3 2012: EA Keeps It Rolling

    Of all the various E3 conferences, I like EA’s current format the best: game, game, game. Every title may not be spectacular, but in recent years EA has streamlined their […]

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  • Am I just getting too old and jaded to get excited by new videogames, or are the games simply less impressive? In the case of Microsoft’s E3 2012 press conference, […]

    E3 2012: Microsoft Treads Water

    Am I just getting too old and jaded to get excited by new videogames, or are the games simply less impressive? In the case of Microsoft’s E3 2012 press conference, […]

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  • I DEBATED what to call this post, because there are two key headlines for this year’s Tiger Woods game. One is a focus on microtransactions so obnoxious it’s often hard […]

    Tiger Woods Hurricane Simulator 2013

    I DEBATED what to call this post, because there are two key headlines for this year’s Tiger Woods game. One is a focus on microtransactions so obnoxious it’s often hard […]

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  • I STARTED WRITING A POST about this a few days ago, since which time Blizzard added a small hotfix to how loot is distributed via the new Looking For Raid […]

    WoW v4.3: Fixing LFR Loot

    I STARTED WRITING A POST about this a few days ago, since which time Blizzard added a small hotfix to how loot is distributed via the new Looking For Raid […]

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  • I WASN’T INITIALLY OVERWHELMED with WoW’s 4.3 patch, released one week ago today. But as I’ve been playing through the new Hour of Twilight dungeons and Dragon Soul raid, I […]

    WoW v4.3: One Week Later

    I WASN’T INITIALLY OVERWHELMED with WoW’s 4.3 patch, released one week ago today. But as I’ve been playing through the new Hour of Twilight dungeons and Dragon Soul raid, I […]

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