http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:03:41 -0700 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:20:30 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d23-Pointless-nostalgia-the-nukes-of-yesteryear?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner My beloved... and my despair.I don't like to think of myself as a jingoistic or xenophobic person, but I can't deny getting that warm, fuzzy feeling inside when I reflect upon some of the neat things America has done. Our astronauts walked on the mo... Nostalgia Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:20:30 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d23-Pointless-nostalgia-the-nukes-of-yesteryear?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d22-Sony-to-introduce-paid-PSN-subscriptions-in-2010?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner When it comes to online console gaming, it pretty much goes without saying that Sony's PlayStation Network has, for many years, ranked a distant second behind Microsoft's Xbox Live in terms of services offered, stability, and goofy-looking... PSN News Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:15:38 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d22-Sony-to-introduce-paid-PSN-subscriptions-in-2010?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d21-Torchlight-review?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner It's almost as if... I've been here before...   Ah, Diablo, the game that launched a thousand imitators. Ever since 1996, when Blizzard's vaunted hack-and-slash RPG was released, hardly a year has gone by without eerily similar games like... PC Nostalgia Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:19:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d21-Torchlight-review?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Video-game-roundup-8-words-or-less-edition?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner Yes, it's that time again, folks: time for me to lazily cram all of my musings on new and upcoming video games into a single disproportionately tiny article. For this incarnation of video game roundup, in acknowledgment of just how short Ameri... Roundup Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:53:21 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Video-game-roundup-8-words-or-less-edition?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d15-The-future-of-downloadable-content?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner Dragon Age: Origins, Bioware's newest RPG, has been almost universally embraced by critics, but lately it's been drawing a little flak from workaday gamers regarding it's pay-to-download content.  Especially controversial is the "War... Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:36:31 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d15-The-future-of-downloadable-content?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d12-Top-6-video-game-freak-outs?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner I don't pretend to know everything about people, but one thing I am sure of is that anybody in a completely normal state of mind is bound to be boring as hell. When I'm looking for entertainment, especially in video games, I want to see peo... Top 6 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:54:13 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d12-Top-6-video-game-freak-outs?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d9-A-suggestion-for-EAs-NHL-11?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner Hockey: "The Gentleman's Game."   Winter, as any Northern hemispherean could tell you, is almost upon us, and to celebrate the annual plunge into frigid darkness I've been playing NHL 09, the next-to-latest addition to EA's lo... Neat Ideas Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:15:53 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d9-A-suggestion-for-EAs-NHL-11?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d8-World-of-Warcraft-vs-China-whither-the-gold-farmers?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner The steel workers of the 21st century.   One of the biggest news items flitting around the gaming world at present is the Chinese government's internal wrangling over whether to suspend the local operating license for Blizzar'ds MMORPG be... Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:16:09 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d8-World-of-Warcraft-vs-China-whither-the-gold-farmers?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Call-of-Duty-should-really-do-some-other-wars?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner "Press X to stare vacantly into the middle distance"   Like pretty much everyone else who hasn't yet suffered a debilitating cerebral hemorrhage, I'm a fan of Infinity Ward's Call of Duty series and it's polished brand of FPS g... Neat Ideas Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:27:28 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Call-of-Duty-should-really-do-some-other-wars?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d2-Gaming-tips-MMORPGs?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner Yay, colors!   If there's two things I know for certain, it's that these crazy MMORPG whatchamajigits are all the rage nowadays, and that a lot of gamers who are desperate to jump on the bandwagon can find them a little overwhelming at fi... Tips Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:21:56 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d2-Gaming-tips-MMORPGs?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d1-Pointless-nostalgia-Earthbound?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner Riveting Action!  Ah, childhood. An idyllic time with no cares or responsibilities... unless you happen to live inside a Japanese RPG. I'm not sure why it is, but the story of almost every single JRPG I've played demands that the fate of the pl... Nostalgia SNES Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:06:08 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m11d1-Pointless-nostalgia-Earthbound?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d31-Nintendo-President-claims-Wii-is-stalled?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner Nothing sexier than a man holding a black rectangle.   Bad news for Nintendo fans / shareholders: in a recent newspaper interview, company president Satoru Iwata suggested that, with sales down some 34.5% in the last business quarter and... Wii News Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:50:16 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d31-Nintendo-President-claims-Wii-is-stalled?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Top-6-great-games-on-failed-consoles?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner Good taste prevails again!   The landscape of video game history is, as everyone knows, littered with the sad remains of consoles which just couldn't quite keep afloat for one reason or another. The real tragedy of these failed systems i... Top 6 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:38:28 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Top-6-great-games-on-failed-consoles?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d25-Gaming-on-the-cheap-Ben-There-Dan-That?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner Know your roots.   As anyone who's ever been forced to sit through a long, boring credit sequence knows all too well, making a video game is a pretty big deal nowadays. Full-time staffs numbering in the hundreds work for months upon mo... PC Cheap Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:00:38 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d25-Gaming-on-the-cheap-Ben-There-Dan-That?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d24-Reader-Mailbag?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner ... When it comes I wanna wail "MAAAAAIIIIILLLL!!!"   Ah, it's that special time of year... the leaves are falling, the weather is cooling, and the reader mailbag articles are singing sweetly in the air. Now, being a humongous i... Mailbag Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:12:56 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d24-Reader-Mailbag?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d19-Why-Im-psyched-about-Dantes-Inferno?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner "Weather is beautiful, wish you were here."   "This said, the gloomy region trembling shook / So terribly, that yet with clammy dews / Fear chills my brow. / The sad earth gave a blast, /That, lightening, shot forth a verm... Preview Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:30:10 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d19-Why-Im-psyched-about-Dantes-Inferno?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d18-Gordon-Freeman-greatest-video-game-hero-ever?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner Finally, a reason not to hate science!   For the past few weeks, I've been following Gamespot's "All-Time Greatest Game Hero" poll with a passive sort of interest. If you haven't checked it out (and are too lazy to follow the l... Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:34:58 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d18-Gordon-Freeman-greatest-video-game-hero-ever?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d17-Philadelphia-postal-worker-steals-86000-worth-of-GameFly-games?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner "Yoink!"As if anyone needed another reason not to live in Philadelphia, a postal worker in the city of Brotherly Love (cough) recently pleaded guilty to pilfering some 2,200 games (whose value totaled over $86,000) from GameFly, a Netflix-... News Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:08:08 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d17-Philadelphia-postal-worker-steals-86000-worth-of-GameFly-games?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d12-Valve-submits-edited-version-of-Left-4-Dead-2-for-Australia?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner The new face of Big Brother.   As I reported a few weeks ago, the Australian government's Office of Literature and Film Classification board sumarrily refused to give a rating to the soon-to-be-released sequel to Valve's co-op zombie shoo... News Expose Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:54:47 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d12-Valve-submits-edited-version-of-Left-4-Dead-2-for-Australia?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d11-Top-6-ragequit-inducers?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner NERD SMASH!   Under normal circumstances, I'd describe myself as a calm and peaceful individual, comfortable with the world around me and displaying only the faintest signs of sociopathy, psycopathy, and stabaguyfornoreasonatallishness. ... Top 6 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:57:58 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5839-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner~y2009m10d11-Top-6-ragequit-inducers?cid=exrss-Pittsburgh-Video-Game-Examiner