Beyond the Rhetoric

Just when I thought I was done traveling for the next little while, I find myself back on the road. It feels like just yesterday that I returned from the Nokia N97 mini tour and now I’m hitting up another event. By the time you read this, I’ll probably be in line somewhere, waiting for [...]

Ever since I picked up the Xbox 360 a couple of years ago, the Nintendo Wii has largely gone neglected. The shiny white box that really revolutionized the world of home gaming has been doing a lot of dust collecting lately. I played a little Wii Sports Resort and some Wii Fit, but those sessions [...]

One day during the holidays, I got together with my brother to play some video games. He wanted to give Tekken 6 a try, since he hadn’t ever really played a Tekken fighting game. That Doesn’t Sound Good So, we put the game disc into his Xbox 360 and prepared ourselves for what would have [...]

By a show of virtual hands, how many of you remember the video game Renegade on the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)? This was the side-scrolling beat-em-up from Taito that preceded the now legendary Double Dragon franchise of games. It also sparked a whole generation of side-scrolling games, paving the way for titles like Battletoads [...]

I took a quick trip over to Edmonton over the weekend for Fragapalooza 2009. To my knowledge, this is Canada’s largest LAN party, attracting gaming enthusiasts from all across the country. People pack up their desktop towers, LCD monitors, office chairs, sleeping bags, and cases of energy drinks so that they can gather up and [...]