Posts Tagged ‘video games’

File this one under the It Took 'Em Long Enough category - DC Comics has announced that they will be publishing, through their Wildstorm imprint, a Ratchet and Clank comic starting this September. After being teased by the random pic of the manga that's been available in Japan for years, the States will soon be [...]

I know it's probably just wishful thinking, but I sincerely hope that I'm never out of touch enough to have to call tech support for something like the Pac-Man game showing up on Google's homepage. I shudder to think of what technological horrors/breakthroughs/wonders await to befuddle myself and people my age in another 30 years [...]

I thought that last Friday's News update from Penny Arcade's Gabe, where he discusses the joy of playing the new Ratchet and Clank game with his son pretty much summed up the not-too-distant future that both Andrew and I are looking forward to. Before our spawn surpass our L337 nerd dad gaming skills and proceed [...]

Apparently the price drop did something: the PS3 was the top-selling console in September.
Now PS3 owners have further reason to be excited. Remember how that amazing/mildly revolutionary Netflix streaming was only available on the XBox 360? No longer.
As an aging, no-longer-very-active gamer, I like the PS3. As a still-crazed cinephile, I LOVE the PS3.

Like most parents out there, I'm late to the game on everything, so I was late tripping across this IGN article listing the top 100 NES games of all time.
Either way, it's a fun piece that'll bring back some fond memories and also make you wonder how and why you used to think the [...]

Presenting the Arkeg.
Early Xmas shopping Nerd Moms please take note: the Arkeg is an old-school stand-up video game cabinet loaded with old games (like personal Nerd Dad faves Kozmik Kroozer and Tapper) that also contains a five gallon keg. The keg is a place where you can put beer. When it is empty, you [...]

Well, this pretty much sucks. In retrospect, I suppose it's a minor miracle that CCI didn't have a swine flu outbreak of some kind.

p>According to VGCharts, the new PS3 Slim appears to be a hit, having moved in the neighborhood of 600K units worldwide last week. Apparently there was a lot of pent up demand for the system, with a lot of people finding themselves in the same boat of simply not thinking that the machine was worth [...]