• Crackdown (X360)

    Crackdown is huge. It's the game I hold accountable for inventing the "Magic City Man" genre. That's one thing I love about it—sandbox freedom. I'll probably never get all 700 collectibles in this g

  • Versus Mode: Mega Man 9, PS3’s Price, Gaming Naked, and More

    Good-Evil's Andrew Raub and GC's Matthew Fraser discuss Mega Man 9 as a brand-new NES game, the PS3's price, gaming in the nude, and more.

  • Grand Theft Auto IV (X360)

    So here I am, tackling a giant. The game alone is quite huge in content and digital space, but that pales in comparison to the amount of words and opinions I have on the experience. Wrapping my writte

  • News (6/30/08): I Hate People.

    Let's talk about something I hate: dumbasses. Last Thursday, six teenagers were arrested at a New York supermarket, after robbing a woman of her cigerattes, and then proceeding to destroy a man's car.

  • Gamer Girlfriend: Living with “The Other Woman”

    Imagine a world where the guy you love brings home a new woman, announces that she will be living with him for at least a week or two, and proceeds to spend every waking, non-work moment with her. He kindly indicates that it’s cool if you hang out, too. However, he would prefer it if you didn’t get in the way too much. Now, if you’re like me, you would have dumped this guy’s ass within five minutes of hearing such a presumptuous proposition. Any self-respecting woman would. We don’t share our men with others of our kind.

  • Dear Readers: GTA is Boring.

    A few weeks ago, as I was on my way to writing about the top ten dining room chairs for my summer internship, I finally figured out exactly why the GTA series irks me so much.

  • Player Two: Take-Two Deserves Whatever it Gets

    Take-Two and its subsidiary Rockstar Games have been sued. By whom do you ask? Well I guess everyone under the sun, and a few people on Mars.

  • Dear Readers: Out of Their Minds

    For the longest time, I couldn't play Out of This World, the acclaimed side-scroller in which, as one GameFAQs user put it, "failure is almost unavoidable." I was too scared to. Right at the beginning of the game, there are these evil slug monsters who jump completely out of nowhere and kill you instantly. They're impossible to avoid—at least, they were for a a ten-year old who'd only just recently mastered tying his shoes—and they always jolted the poo out of me.

  • Dear Readers: Leave Us Alone

    What did we ever do to you?

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    Dear Readers: GTA Didn’t Start at III.

    I read a joke in Electronic Gaming Monthly the other day that amused me