We picked up the Logitech V220 Wirelesss Optical Mouse for playing Aion on my MSi Wind Netbook. This mouse was especially designed for notebooks. It was $29.99 at Best Buy. So it was reasonable as well as innovative.  I needed it for the wheel in the middle for zooming the perspective in and out in [...]

Tekken 6 has a bevy of beautiful fighting female avatars. There are about a dozen women in the game, give or take a trannie, and a sexualized log. Alisa, Anna Williams, Asuka Kazama, Christie Montero, ‘Dragundy’ (drag undies?), Julia Chang, Lili, Mokujin, Nina Williams, Xiadyu Ling, and Zafina make up the girls team in this [...]

As an Apple enthusiast it sucks more than usual to have to buy an additional Windows machine every two years, just to play MMO’s, while the Macs keep going and going long beyond their life expectancy. Now more than ever game developers like NCSoft, and Turbine and need to release OSX versions of their Betas [...]

I’ve played the Halloween Guild Wars event every year and it is lots of fun. I’m looking forward to seeing what they have going on in Aion this year.
Aion – Harvest Revel. During the Fall harvest, the people of Atreia have always celebrated the bounty of the land. Years ago, the joy of the annual [...]

Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy from Her Interactive  is a point and click adventure game. It’s similar to Nancy Drew Resorting to Danger, where you will play as Nancy Drew to finding the clues and evidence to solve a case. Warnings at Waverly Academy seems to take several pages from pop culture. One teacher [...]

Aion Trumps WoW

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Go Aion! It would seem that the churn I predicted away from WoW has begun to come true.  Aion has beat World of Warcraft, and The Sims 3 in sales this month. According to Ryan James,  NCSoft PR rep, “The response we?ve seen from players and critics has absolutely exceeded our expectations. The amount of [...]

LOTRO Welcome Back Week

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There are two days left for the LOTRO Welcome back week. If you need to download the game client to return, or to put your account on a new machine, the elusive download links are posted here: Welcome Back Week!
During The Lord of the Rings Online™ Welcome Back Week from October 15th through October [...]

Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection was released this fall for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 from FarSight Studios and Crave Entertainment. In their time these were thought to be some of the greatest pinball machines made.The strength of the game is the attention to detail that was made in reproducing these old cabinets. [...]

Brutal Legend has brought something new to the music game genre. It succeeds due to the assimilation of several different types of game play forged together with metal. Critics are struggling to label this game along standard genre lines. The story is what drives this game, not the pigeon holed expectation that a game has [...]

Perfect? No. Masterpiece? Debatable. This is a game that isn’t broken, and that has some reviewers inordinately excited. That, or they got their copy of Uncharted 2 Among Thieves for free. Ours is just a rental from Gamefly. Critics opinions seem to depend on how high expectations were. Here we have a game with a [...]

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