Beyond the Rhetoric

As you may have heard, I’m still in Taiwan. This is my third time here, but I have only ventured outside of Taipei once. That was for a set of factory tours. Since I’m here for an extra week this time around, I wanted to make it a point to visit places outside of the [...]

The public library is a pretty amazing place, especially since they even lend out video games these days. You might remember a few months ago when I reviewed four Nintendo Wii games that I borrowed from the library. They were Rabbids Go Home, Samba De Amigo, Punch-Out!! and Grand Slam Tennis. Some were better than [...]

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 [...]

“A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.” I’m still trying to recover from my E3 trip, attempting to digest all of that video game-fueled goodness that I observed last week. While there, I had the opportunity to walk through the Nintendo booth and see what had to offer in the [...]

So, I’ve been in Los Angeles since Monday for E3 Expo 2009, the biggest video game trade show in North America. It is here that you’ll find all the latest video game-related announcements from companies like Sony, Nintendo, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Activision, and Capcom. The convention, if you want to call it that, isn’t nearly [...]