Recent content by Tabloid Believer

I'm surprised at the degree at which Warren Spector wigged out. But I think it's a great question to ask - can the industry grow beyond the FPS. Yahtzee's been chanting this mantra for a while now.

The last, great, truly scary game that I played was the first Bioshock. I think that game was scary because (as others have said here), it didn't rely on jump scares. The first Bioshock was scary because it was about unraveling a mystery. And the more you unraveled the mystery, the more you...

This is old news, but it's on CNN's front page right now, because the killer brought it back up. I'm sure that he's quite aware that by bringing it up, his statement will get more attention and that he will get more attention. The problem is that video games still hold a lot of mystique for...

Scrumpmonkey has adequately defined one of the biggest roadblocks to the "are video games art" debate. Almost no one can agree on a definition of art. So, rather than try to chase that dog up the Tree of Circular Debate, I just want to pop in and say why Shadow of the Colossus was a work of...

You know, when I get on X-Box LIVE nowadays, I find myself muting about half of the people I play with, primarily because they start spouting offensive statements over the mic. This past week, it got really bad. Bad enough that on a couple nights, my gaming experience was ruined entirely...

But an iPad doesn't have a camera built-in. Strange. Oh well. As for why someone would bring an iPad...as was stated above me, I could see bringing one to pull up stats and ESPN while watching the game. As well as keep track of other games. It would be great for Fantasy Baseball as well. If...

So much better. The editing is a lot better. A lot less shaky cam. If you guys really want to get ambitious, get two cameras there and switch viewpoints from time to time.

Actually, I'm going to bet that it's not Unreal 4. Unreal 3 did terribly. I could see Unreal 4 as a sort of Mea Culpa. "Sorry. This is the game that we -really- meant to come out with." But my bet is Bulletstorm. The Unreal Engine has only just begun to be tapped. I'm hoping for a property that...

I'm honestly scratching my head at what some people here are talking about in terms of a decline of gaming. Perhaps they can give me some concrete examples? What is a good game from "the old days" and what's an example of a bad game they played recently? Speaking only for myself, I'm loving...

Most of the terrible games I've played weren't spectacularly bad, because (as people have said) usually I don't get past 15 minutes with a spectacularly bad game. So, the worst games I've played were really, really mediocre, or started out okay but then became massive let-downs. Halo 3. That...

I'm quite surprised, because IGN gave UT3 a 9.0, and Gamespot gave it a 8.0. Looks like the declining status of the game basically hurt the franchise overall, so that now people just aren't even checking it out.

Eh. I liked System Shock 2 just fine. It was a truly great and innovative game. But that takes nothing away from Bio Shock. Bio Shock, for me, truly approaches Art in terms of video games today. Yes, System Shock took the innovations further in gameplay, but for me the story of Bio Shock was...

Well, what do you think? What are your Top 10? There were a lot of good offerings this year. Here's my top 10. I'll justify my decisions later. 10. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 9. Left 4 Dead 8. Fable 2 7. Gears of War 2 6. Super Smash Bros. Brawl 5. Guitar Hero World Tour 4...

Yep. Mirror's Edge is a great example of that. :/ However, to add onto that, I'll tell you precisely why many games nowadays seem very similar to each other. In the earlier days of gaming, it didn't cost that much to make a game. So there was very little risk. So the incentive to innovate...

Consoles gone downhill? Not at all. First and foremost, consoles (now more than ever) offer a different experience from PC gaming. For example, the Wii and the Wiimote are something you are not going to be able to experience on a PC. Period. Same with the Wii Fit. But it applies to the X-Box...