How’s that for an absurd acronym? I’ve been planning this one for a while, but couldn’t come up with a cool enough string of capital letters. I’ve settled on this one, though, so here it comes: Episode I of Sorry For Not Reviewing Everything I Play. This is where I do micro-reviews of all the games I’ve been sifting through in the last month but haven’t ever felt inspired enough to do full reviews of. Everything will basically boil down to this: Love, Hate, or Meh?
Since this is the first episode, I may reach back a little further than just one month. I feel like I’ve been cheating our readership pretty hard, especially during our December hiatus. My plan is to have a new episode up the second Monday of every month from here on out, but we’ll see what happens. I hope you all enjoy this! This time, I’ll be commenting on Borderlands, Assassin’s Creed II, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Deus Ex: Invisible War, Darksiders, and Mass Effect 2.
Hello to all! My name is Steven Gibbons (MasterOfOrigami) and I am The Astringent Gaming Journal’s newest video game reviewer. My specialty will focus on my love for Indie games. I will be bringing you games made by unknown companies and uprising stars. Sometimes the games I will review won’t be necessarily the definition of an Indie game but rather an offbeat gem that needs to be brought to light. I plan to make every review different in some way so we’ll just have to see what happens. I also intend to do more than review just a game, I’ll also look into the history of the company as well as some future projects to look forward to. Now this is my first review, go easy on me, and I’ll try to make it as fun as possible. So without further ado, my review for Beautiful Katamari for Xbox 360! Enjoy!
There’s scary games, and then there’s watching helplessly in horror as a game delete save files without your doing so. Welcome to the mindtrip that is Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem.
It’s Super Bowl MMDCCLXXXVII or whatever today. Yeah, that’s 2787 for those who can’t read Roman numerals. Little known fact: The first Super Bowl was held in 777 B.C.
As you may have guessed, I don’t care about football. I may go hit a Super Bowl party for some food, but that’s about it. On to the news, eh? Very well. Those crazy folks over at Destructoid have provided for you, the consumer, a way to get all of those promotional Dr. Pepper DLC items without buying any Dr. Pepper. I did it, and you should too! Up for grabs are items for games besides Mass Effect 2, but…why would you be playing The Sims 3 instead of Mass Effect 2? That doesn’t even make sense. Get the Mass Effect 2 stuff. Or all of it.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Dr. Pepper, but free things are so much more limited time. So much more tasty.
Yep! In case you haven’t heard, Fallout: New Vegas is supposed to hit store shelves this Fall. New California Republic, anyone?
I love the Fallout franchise kind of like the majestic tuna enjoys having water to live in. In other words, I absolutely love the Fallout games. I’m not one of those people who owns a 360 for Halo 3 and thought “Man, I’m bored. I guess this Fallout 3 game has killing in it. I’ll check it out.” and then went back to guffawing on my headset for the “benefit” of everyone else in my current round of Slayer.
I’ve been informed that Sonic the Hedgehog 4 will indeed be released on Wii. I apologize for the misinformation on that. Now then, here’s what else I found:
When was the last time you played an Aliens vs. Predator game? Even if you got nostalgic and re-installed the second one a while after its initial surge of popularity had subsided, it’s still probably been five years or more. That’s too long, isn’t it? Don’t you want to skitter across some ceilings and kill some unsuspecting Marines, showing them the error of their species in that last moment before their body realizes how much blood it’s missing?
Well, guess what? The demo for the third installment, simply called Aliens vs. Predator, is available for everyone. I’m downloading it on Steam right now. But hey, 360 and PS3 people–you can do the same thing! Well, minus the Steam bit. You know what I mean.
Don’t really know what the franchise is about? Check out the full article for gameplay of the three very different races, as well as a comparison by the developers of the first AVP versus this one.
Let’s face it, the Nintendo Wii has always been “hit or miss” since a few months after its launch, but 2010 just may be the year of surprises and new beginnings that the Wii needs…
