It’s foolish to deny that the cloud will dominate PC use in the future; dumb terminals made sense when raw computing power was unnecessary, and we’ll come full-circle as soon as broadband is ubiquitous. For nearly all applications, all an end-user needs is a browser with an internet connection; there’s an easy case to be [...]
Reggie Fils-Aime is not the man we want to see heading Nintendo’s North American chapter. That’s not to say that he’s totally off-base with his opinions and statements, but as VentureBeat’s recent interview of Films-Aimes illustrates, the man comes across as far too defensive of Nintendo, even for a President. Maybe that’s because Nintendo should [...]
We didn’t like Fable 2, and as far as RPGs are concerned, we totally thought Fallout 3 trumped Fable 2 in every possible way. While our tastes are understandably subjective, we acknowledge that some people may actually like playing a game where the Sims meets fantasy, and where hack’n slash combat is practically mandatory to [...]
The preposterously long-named Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix broke sales records, though apparently for being the crappiest visual remake of any title in history. Don’t get us wrong – we appreciate new sprites, particularly ones updated to look like sexy comics. But that’s not what the latest Street Fighter II title is, unless a [...]
While we had high expectations for Fable 2 (being fans of the original and all) we became somewhat weary of the title when Molyneux started propagandizing his latest game in recent weeks. Compounded with the huge content cuts in the “limited edition” version of the title, we almost decided to pass over the game until [...]