Fat Ninja

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We got Wii Fit the day it released. I haven’t spent a ton of time with it yet, but I plan to. We spent the first day getting everyone’s body tests done. I will say that the BMI test seems a bit strict, but I don’t know what people expected from it. Once we got […]

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For a time I was really on the fence about Grand Theft Auto IV. I wasn’t sure if I was going to get it, believe it or not. I hadn’t enjoyed previous installments with even half of the zeal that most of my gaming counterparts seem to have for it. There was a lot that […]

A while back I posted about Team Ninja’s plans to bring Ryu Hayabusa and all of his ninja shenanigans to the little hand-held that could. Some time between then and a few months ago, I kinda set down my DS. Needless to say, Ninja Gaiden Dragon Swords (NGDS) dropped off of my gaming radar. Well, […]

Ever heard of Assassin’s Creed? Of course you have! What gamer hasn’t? Given the hype surrounding UbiSoft’s latest franchise, you may also be raising an eyebrow over the rather lukewarm reception the game has received on the game review circuit. I wanted to put a review of my own together, mainly because I think some […]

Any one who has played the demo, looked at screenshots, or read the reviews from major gaming sites knows that Tenchu Z is anything but a next generation gaming experience. But that doesn’t mean that it should only be reviewed on account of what it isn’t. It isn’t a killer app. It isn’t a groundbreaking […]

The aloof disregard that I visited upon the Guitar Hero kiosks in such vendors as Best Buy and Fry’s was utterly feigned. In those moments all I really wanted to do was tear that plastic axe from the weak, clammy clutches of the pimply-faced adolescent that was playing and start doing a little shredding of […]

The Ghosts Are Back
I spent all weekend recovering from some very minor (but discomforting) surgery that severely limited my mobility. I’ll spare you the details. Lucky for me, I was pampered by my loving wife and whittled the time away by eating Tillamook ice cream, drinking Fat Tire and playing the utter shit out of […]

I never mastered PC gaming, so you’ll forgive my being late to the first-person party. The genre struggled to find a foothold in the console market early on. Yet, amidst so many failures, there were successful translations that paved the way for the FPS-saturated console market that we live in today. Now, if any of […]

Gears of War has been the most highly anticipated game for the Xbox 360 since it was first announced in June of 2005. Hailed by the gaming community as the 360’s much needed “killer app”, it has been the subject of speculation, adoration, and spite. It’s been the Holy Grail of 360 fanboys (present company […]

With a well-established franchise like UbiSoft’s Splinter Cell series, it’d be simple and cost-effective to stick to the formula, pump out some cookie-cutter gameplay, and charge gamers $10 more than they paid to play the last entry in the series. Fortunately, EA’s substantial shareholdings in the Montreal-based developer have not, as of yet, influenced UbiSoft’s […]