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There is a certain appeal to a game that allows you to grab your opponent’s nutsack as a subduing maneuver — a legitimate military maneuver, I’m sure — or place a naughty skin mag on the ground to distract enemies — again, I’m sure, another valid chapter found in the Soldier’s Handbook of Tactics. [...]
[The Social Gamer is a semi-regular opinion feature by AJ Papa that discusses technologies, concepts and issues that facilitate a social experience in video games — an opinion that seeks to create a social video game experience in an increasingly connected world.]
With the release of the highly anticipated Little Big Planet scheduled to come out [...]
[The Social Gamer is a semi-regular opinion feature by AJ Papa that discusses technologies, concepts and issues that facilitate a social experience in video games — an opinion that seeks to create a social video game experience in an increasingly connected world.]
Online patrons and gamers alike will not disagree that signing into Facebook and signing [...]
This week Garnett Lee of 1UP Yours fame had a chance to speak with Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft’s Group Product Manager for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, on EGM Live. The interview particularly impressed me as Garnett didn’t have any reservations asking Aaron about the things that irk him about the Xbox Live service and [...]
So I know this guy … he recently downloaded the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates rom and conveniently loaded it into to his M3 adapter. Well unbeknownst to him, Square Enix had placed anti-piracy measures into the game that would reset the game and periodically display a screen that said, “Thank you for [...]
Usually when I head over to my local Gamestop these days, I see a bargain bin full of UMD movies at discount prices set up conveniently and pervasively to impede my path to the register. It’s really quite a somber sight; it’s like a product graveyard with assorted UMD movies just screaming to be rescued [...]
I was comforted and assured by the Sony representative on the phone that my Playstation 3 would be going to a better place. For a $150 service fee, it damn well better be going to a better place.
Listen up younglings. Back in my day, specifically 1992, we use to go to these ancient places called “Arcades.” In these arcades stood towering video game machines whose sole purpose was to extract quarters from you. There was one game in particular that I believe that I put so many quarters into that I could [...]
I hear by, from this day hence forth, declare that my Nintendo Wii haveth a new name. It will no longer be known as “AJ’s Nintendo Wii.” Instead it will be known as “AJ’s Super Smash Brothers Brawl and Sometimes Virtual Console Playing Device.” Or for those of you who are into mnemonic devices, you [...]
Tis a sad day. My PS3, which I have nicknamed “The Beast,” has spun its last disc. After trying for hours to resuscitate its Blue-Ray drive and an hour of talking to Sony tech support, the Beast just couldn’t do it; it wouldn’t recognize a single disc. It happened last night when I was trying [...]