Beyond the Rhetoric

It’s no secret that I’m a Nintendo fanboy. I grew up with playing video games on the nearly all of the company’s systems, from the original NES and Game Boy, straight through to the more recent GameCube and Game Boy Advance (No DS in my collection yet, though I wouldn’t be surprised if I picked [...]

In what has to be one of the worst name changes in the history of technology, Nintendo announced today that their next-generation console will hereby no longer be known as the Revolution. It’s not going to be called the “Go” as previously reported either. Instead, they’re going with “Wii”, pronounced “wee”.
Their justification is that the [...]

It pains me just a bit to be writing about hockey and not being able to dedicate a substantial amount of the space to my hometown Vancouver Canucks, but I am surprised how into the NHL playoffs I am getting. I’m spreading my wings (not red ones. A Detroit fan I am not), so to [...]

MichaelKwan.com launched last month to limited fanfare, but with the introduction of Beyond the Rhetoric and a featured interview on The
Commentary, traffic has been steadily picking up steam, despite the fact that the website is still under major construction. I make no qualms about saying that the website is far from being complete in its [...]

Each time the video game industry is set to release a new generation of home consoles, there is an incredible buzz around the whole thing. Will the Genesis take out the SNES? Can the Dreamcast steal the market?
This time around it’s the (already released) Xbox 360, the Sony PlayStation 3, and the Nintendo Revolution. While [...]