Today, the US observes Cinco de Mayo, a celebration originating in the state of Puebla in Mexico. The United States adopted the celebration as an opportunity to celebrate Mexican history and culture as a whole, but in that grand American tradition, we’ve all but removed the history and culture parts of the celebration, and replaced [...]
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5 Video Game Drinking Games
Posted by Clarke on May 5th, 2010
Posted in Gaming, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 
Tags: Alkyhol, Madden, Modern Warfare 2, NCAA Football, PS3, Rock Band, Super Smash Brothers, Video Games, Wario Ware, Wii, xbox 360 
2 Comments »There’s a World Going on Underground: Metro 2033
Posted by Clarke on March 31st, 2010
First-person shooters, a genre popularized and fueled by storied, lucrative franchises that stretch back many years, are often thought of as simple, linear gaming experiences that pacify a player with explosions, gunfire and the most basic of storylines (KILL BAD GUYS). But, the genre is not unfriendly to innovation. Fallout, a storied franchise in its [...]
Posted in Gaming, PC, Xbox 360 Tags: 4A Games, Metro 2033, PC, Reviews, Video Games, xbox 360 No Comments »Mass Effect 2 DLC Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Posted by Chaz on March 19th, 2010
Bioware finally dated their Firewalker pack for March 23, which features the Hammerhead vehicle, five new missions and a couple new costumes.
From what I’d seen of the Hammerhead, it played and looked like a sort of upgraded Mako. So, of course, I was very skeptical; painful memories of peeking around corners to [...]
Posted in Gaming, News, PC, Xbox 360 Tags: BioWare, DLC, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, PC, Video Games, xbox 360 1 Comment »Second Verse, Same as the First: BioShock 2
Posted by Clarke on March 17th, 2010
Oh man, have you heard about this game, BioShock 2? Dude, I just played it. It’s pretty good.
Posted in Gaming, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: 2K Games, BioShock, BioShock 2, PC, PS3, Video Games, xbox 360 3 Comments »Transformers: War for Cybertron Trailer Analyzed
Posted by Chaz on February 27th, 2010
Browsing around the web, it’s hard to avoid the buzz around the new Transformers game. This presumes, of course, that you have no life on the weekend and stave off your despair with Internet browsing (crying into cereal optional). Here’s the trailer for the new game:
After seeing that, I was curious if there were any [...]
Posted in Gaming, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 Tags: PC, PS3, Transformers, Transformers: War for Cybertron, Video Games, Wii, xbox 360 No Comments »Death Is Only the Beginning… And the Middle… And the End: Dante’s Inferno
Posted by Clarke on February 26th, 2010
In the middle of the journey of our life,
I found myself again in [or through] a dark wood,
[so dark] that the straight way was utterly lost.
Alas how hard it is to say what it was like,
this savage and sharp and strong forest,
which even in thought renews my fear!
So bitter was it that death is little [...]
Posted in Gaming, PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Dante's Inferno, Electronic Arts, Game Reviews, PS3, Reviews, Visceral Games, xbox 360 4 Comments »Exclusive First Look: 5 Games Designed for Microsoft’s Health Care Xbox
Posted by Clarke on February 15th, 2010
Microsoft has made it clear that the Xbox 360 is for more than just video games, with the system’s Netflix and Last.fm support. However, they’ve now announced their desire to move the 360 into a new, unexpected realm: health care.
Combined with Project Natal, the Xbox 360 could be used in a variety of ways [...]
Posted in Gaming, News, Xbox 360 Tags: /s, Fable, Guitar Hero, Halo: Reach, Mass Effect, Project Natal, Soul Calibur, xbox 360 No Comments »Fallout: New Vegas’s Controversial Plot Revealed in Trailer
Posted by Clarke on February 13th, 2010
The staff of RightClickReload have been all abuzz lately about the new Fallout: New Vegas trailer. Crafted by Obsidian Entertainment and Bethesda Softworks, Fallout: New Vegas will put gamers back in the familiar role of a traveler of the American post-apocalyptic wasteland, though the precise setting of this iteration will be brand new. Whereas the [...]
Posted in Gaming, News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Bethesda, Colbert Was Right, Cylon, Fallout, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Obsidian, PC, Playstation 3, Robo-Bear Pope, xbox 360 5 Comments »FREE Mass Effect 2 DLC Released
Posted by Chaz on February 10th, 2010
The new Cerberus Armor and M-22a Eviscerator Shotgun are now available for free on the Cerberus Network. Xbox 360 users can download the upgrade from the Marketplace or from the Cerberus Network option in game, and PC users can click here to get the DLC. The stuff looks cool, but sadly the Cerberus armor [...]
Posted in Gaming, News, PC, Xbox 360 Tags: BioWare, Cerberus Network, DLC, Free Stuff, Gaming, Mass Effect 2, PC, xbox 360 No Comments »Project Needlemouse Unveiled, Surprises No One
Posted by Clarke on February 4th, 2010
After a series of inexplicable Sonic the Hedgehog games, (Sonic with a gun! Were-hog! Give him a sword!) SEGA is taking the much-maligned franchise back to its roots. The just-announced Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 returns Sonic to a two dimensional world, with a little bit of 3D flair. Think New Super Mario Bros.
Posted in Gaming, News, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 Tags: Project Needlemouse, SEGA, Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 No Comments »
