Did you spend more time last month with Andrew Ryan than your gal Jenny? Have you been playing the Quake Wars demo more than playing with sweet Billy? Seriously folks, how is your significant other dealing with your constant need to prove your hardcore status? If your pixel interactions are a problem, never fear - Massage Me is here.
Crytek and Electronic Arts have announced the minimum and recommend system requirements for the upcoming FPS Crysis, and unsurprisingly, premium performance comes at a very high price.
Forget Calphalon pans and that plated cutlery you'll almost certainly never use after a few months, married couples are now asking for exactly what they want for a wedding present: a Wii.
Casual game behemoth PopCap Games will be testing the console waters with the release of two "greatest hits" packages for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2.
"October's a big sports month, a sports perfect storm. The baseball playoffs are in full swing. The football season is well underway, as is the hockey season. And pro basketball is over. That portion of my brain dedicated to stat tracking and backseat managing is firing up an electrical storm, and that current invariably makes its way to my gaming lizard brain. And I can't stop playing."
"By the bottom of the first inning, my Rangers were down 13 runs and had changed pitchers five times. On occasion I'd throw a pitch that wasn't an automatic home run for my opponent, and would then be forced to attempt to field the ball. By run 8 or 9 I'd taken to manually switching to whichever player wasn't in the path of the ball, and then praying I could fade into the outfield and pretend the sun was in my eyes. In this way the game was very much like my limited experience playing actual baseball."Russ Pitts attempts to play sports games on the Wii, hilarity ensues.
"And the trick is that football, more than any other major sport, is one of constant fluidity. Others have lots of handholding for the viewer, with regular stops and short bursts of play before the game comes to rest again, giving the observer a chance to consider. Football, compared to baseball or American football or even basketball, never stops. ... Sensible Soccer's simplified form showed me the structures to watch for, in platonic-perfection. Sensible Soccer explained it all."Kieron Gillen explains how a simple soccer game for the Amiga made him a better son, soccer fan and Englishman.
