Preaching to the Converted

What do you do when you've made a game, it becomes a hit and you are a red hot property of the highest proportions?

Sell out your fans, thats what.

At this point there should be a big red button with DON'T PANIC written on it somewhere in your vacinity. There is sound business sense involved here, that you will no doubt have experienced before in other entertainment mediums.

Now, I'm not a member of the gaming press fraternity, and I'm not afraid to tell people that the truth of the matter is: You don't matter. Companies want to make money, and thats it.

Gone are the days of bedroom programmers... happy, be-spectacled fellows hunched over a Commodore 64 at 2am eating a pizza and creating the next Duck Hunt. Companies control the gaming scene now, and they want money, stocks, shares and huge CEO bonuses each year.

Again - DON'T PANIC!

7th Dragon- The one that got away

Super Nintendo Era part 2?


Remember back in the 90s there were all kinds of Japanese games, RPG or otherwise that we gaming fans were denied from enjoying? Yeah, I had thought those days were mostly behind us. I mean we got freaking Dragon Quest ROCKET SLIME of all games, and most the Japanese games we've been missing out on haven't exactly been amazing, or in some cases its clear there is no market for them in the U.S. Shining Force Feather looks neat for example, but is anyone really losing sleep over missing out on that game?
       Well, all this was the case until some evil person (more likely persons) decided 7th Dragon didn't deserve a release outside of Japan.

Why Super Street Fighter 4 is worth your 40 bucks

No there wont be as many versions as Street Fighter 2


        Being a huge Street Fighter fan, Street Fighter 4 was an absolute blast to play,and after such a long wait between 3 and 4 (ironically I never got into 3) it seemed like they picked the right time to bring the franchise back. Though using 3D graphics obviously, they successful kept the old school look with probably the best cell shaded type graphics I've ever seen.
       So, as great as it was, why would you buy the game again is the question. Normally I'd be totally against this, but Super Street Fighter 4 is more than just a repackaging.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3, omg guys Marvel vs. Capcom 3

So Marvel vs. Capcom 2, and the Capcom VS. Fighting series was kind of a big deal. I mean, who wouldn't want to see Mega Man and wolverine face off?  OK so they were very over the top fighting games and in the case of MvC2 quite unbalanced at times, but there was just something about them that made them be an absolute blast to play even if you had no idea what you're doing. The fighting was easy to grasp but had lots of depth and crazy combos to it and each successive vs. game just got better and better.

Hey Guys Remember when video game commercials were cool?

If this didn't make you want to run out and buy Mortal Kombat when you were a kid, then clearly you must be some kind of cold blooded ALIEN.

Hardware review: DSi XL

Bigger Is Better?


In a crazy world where we're all about making smaller electronics, the fact that Nintendo would do the exact opposite  and come out with a larger DSi is a little odd, but thankfully its exactly the kind of DSi I was looking for! I've been using an old "fat" DS for awhile now (one of the Red Mario Kart models) and resisted updating to the DS Lite as it felt too small to me. Thankfully Nintendo came along with the XL, and it does not disappoint.

Dr. Sega Hate, or how I stopped worrying and gave up trying to find a copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga

Where it all started to go wrong


1998 was the end of the Saturn, and to me it felt like an end before it ever really started. Why you ask? Because 1998 was the year with the BEST releases for the damn system. Despite this, Sega completely screwed over its Saturn users during this year, and I will be doing so discussing  the best titles of that sad sad year of '98.

Dr. Sega Love, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Saturn

The "Genesis" of my Sega Fandom

I was a Nintendo man.

Honestly if you were born in the 80s you probably were too. The problem was, the Nintendo systems were usually shared with my brother. They never really felt like "mine". That all changed when I got my Sega Genesis. Of course this was preceded by a Game Gear, but the less said about that thing the better.

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