I finished Borderlands last week! It’s one of the few xbox 360 games I completed lately. A game needs to be engaging for me to spend more than a few hours on it thanks to all the other games that I want to play and my backlog.
Things I loved about the game:
Diablo loot-a-thon + first [...]
No, PC gaming is not dead. Far from it. I’ve been playing a lot of Torchlight during my spare time lately. It’s a dungeon crawling loot-stravaganza for the uninitiated. The UI is great. The art design is whimsical. Your character model changes depending on what you have equipped. Oh, and every class [...]
Me vs. Stacy the Manager
Don’t laugh at my Game Face ™! This weekend was the Ladies of Street Fighter tournament at Arcade Infinity. It was the first tournament I’d ever seen in person, much less played in, but it was a good experience. I hadn’t imagined it would be so nerve-wracking.
I came in [...]
How could I forget to post about this yesterday? I also spent a few minutes playing the Japanese version of Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 3 (Wii) at the Atlus booth. Shiren 3 explains more about Shiren’s mysterious path, for those who follow the story. With my very limited Japanese, I was able to [...]
I don’t know how people can do multiple days of convention. One day of E3 was enough for me. It must take a lot of stamina to work the booths for so many days straight.
I checked out the new skate board peripheral for Tony Hawk. It seemed to work better than I thought it [...]
Everyone was saying that I needed a fight pad or an arcade stick to hold my own in Street Fighter IV. I was trying to avoid purchasing yet another game peripheral, but it was discouraging to get my ass kicked by shotos throwing fireballs and shoryukenning all over the place. I passed by [...]
I’ve been neglecting my 1up blog because of laziness. I already write about games on Siliconera, but I’m still torn between writing more general thoughts about games here, or my 1up blog which is more game-oriented. I don’t want my 4 readers here to miss out on my insightful game writing, but I also don’t [...]
