This weekend, I finally completed Tim Schafer's motorcyclist tribute Full Throttle and, while sitting through what must be the longest closing credit crawl of video game history, I noticed the following...

Unitdaisy and I arrived at 9pm to O'Donovan's for Rockstar Games & The Onion's little Table Tennis soiree, only to find a relatively empty backroom with no consoles and a mere handful of patrons. Granted, weather in Chicago has been insufferable lately, but that didn't stop the hundred or so diners out on the pub's deck and front room, those that showed up to sup instead of play...

I found an article this weekend, an article written in response to Congress' hearings concerning video game violence and mature subject matter. It addressed the issue of an industry policing itself versus government intervention, mused on the artistic merits of video games and pondered the responsibility game designers have towards their audience, all written from the perspective of a prominent video game publisher...

While visiting a ice cream shoppe with the missus last night, I found a miniature Game Boy Advance, stuffed with gummies. Proving the old adage 'A fool and his money are soon parted' I handed over a dollar and brought it home.

While snacking in a local pub after some fine Saturday garage saling, I noticed the following in this week's edition of The Onion...

This week's garagesaling article reminded me that we missed out on posting a few of last year's shenanigans, one of which really didn't deserve to be neglected. That one, as pointed out in this week's write-up, was not only one of our more successful hauls, and not only did it have an additional guest tagging along with us, but that guest was one of two people who got us outside & rooting through people's garages in the first place: Red vs. Blue's Gustavo Sorola!

I'm always up for a good, in-depth read about the history behind a developer or game, regardless of whether I've actually played the games discussed or not. I haven't laid my hands on Prey yet (although the demo sits, unplayed, in a buried folder on my PC), but Apogee fan site...

Since the Okami website was filled with treasure, I thought I'd see what secrets other Clover Studio project websites might contain, such as their eccentric brawler God Hand. And, while I didn't find anything as gob-smackingly good as Double God Hand Dragon, it does contain Godgame...

Sure, Clover Studio's stylishly intriguing game Okami doesn't come out in the U.S. until September, but you can play it today! Well, an 8-bit simulacra of it.

We usually try to refrain from posting game announcements and footage news, but this is too cool to resist. The clever enthusiasts at The Wiire have an exclusive trailer for Suda 51's new Wii title, Heroes. Originally set to be revealed at E3 earlier this year, for reasons unknown the trailer has been buried -- until now. I'd be lying if I said that the game didn't look (and sound!) like the spiritual sequel to last year's excellent Killer7, and the prospect of taking another dip into that world - wiimote in hand - excites me dearly.

A week ago I accidentally stumbled on the Children of DOS site, a self-proclaimed '8bit 7bit 6bit sexbit mp3 internetlabel'. I'm still sorting through their catalog, but I'm especially impressed with 777minus111's material, whose trio of tributes to 8-bit music I stole for this journal's title (Part One and Part Three are especially good). His compositions aren't as chirpy or as textured as most chiptunes I've heard, instead they're evenly paced and even a little somber, but never too heavy...

In this case, it's Pong and Space Invaders recreated frame-by-frame in a large auditorium, using people as pixels. The Pong video is OK, but the Space Invaders video is a must-see.

We're back from our (extended) July 4th vacation, and what better way to celebrate than to post a new article?

But why write about a fifteen-year-old port? Simply because it's summertime and we're straddling video game generations, which means that there's just not a whole heck of a lot out in the new release department right now.

Consequently, for the rest of the summer I'll be digging through the hundreds of games garnered through our garage saling activities, trying to mine them for content. That's not to say we'll

SiliconEra reports that a reader named 'oleanhosting' bought out a pawn shop's entire video game collection, a not-insignificat (but dusty) selection of consoles (including a Virtual Boy, several third-generation Genesis consoles (and a dozen first-gen ones), as well as a Sega Master System), plus baskets full of games.

Have you ever turned on the radio to catch the end of a familiar song but you just can't find the downbeat and, as a result, the song sounds disjointed, even alien, to your ears? I can't help but feel that similar circumstances plagued my time with Half-Life 2: Episode One, as I seemingly wandered through the game without ever finding its pulse....