Maybe three or four years ago, I started to see a new acronym pop up on the Internet: QFT. As I understand it, this stands for ‘Quoted for Truth.’ It gets used when somebody on a forum scoops up another person’s words and re-posts them in order to demonstrate their own agreement. It’s like a [...]
Move aside, Pyramid Head–the gaming world has spoken, and there’s a new Scariest Game Character in town. Just in time for Halloween, blogger Chad Concelmo introduces us to the gaming baddie he fears above all others: Phanto, from Super Mario Bros. 2. Since this was my Mario game of choice as a kid, I’m inclined [...]
Those of you who loved the N64 classic GoldenEye 007 may be interested in this red-hot rumor:
Shortly before being pulled from the internet’s intimidating view, an animator’s online resume may have let out a secret — concerning an iconic secret agent. According to the eagle-eyed Superannuation, Craig Peck listed work on a game dubbed “GoldenEye [...]
Now that Nintendo has made the Wii Internet Channel available to all its users, it’s given those who paid for the service a free NES game on the Virtual Console. How nice! My Wii’s back home, but I think I’m one of those people, so I’ll be excited to pick up a classic game free [...]
My, my, if the blogopshere isn’t alive with critics these days! All over the place, gamers are questioning long-held beliefs and calling out inane or dated traditions in the medium. With all this healthy debate, I daresay our industry must be in the middle of a virtual Renaissance!
All right, now that the flowery language is [...]
It may sound like a Nicholas Cage disaster movie, but in reality, FireCore is a plug-and-play game system that comes pre-loaded with thirty Genesis titles. More importantly, however, it can also play all the Genesis cartridges slumbering near the Furby in your basement:
While Innex and AtGames’ Firecore Classic Console is pre-loaded with 30 Genesis games [...]
If you’re into heavily-armored ladies blasting their way through legions of space pirates and alien parasites, then…you’re probably into Metroid. (If not, you should be!) Since her humble beginnings on the NES (back before most people knew she was female!), Samus Aran has been a hallmark of the sci-fi shooter, starring in run-and-gun classics across [...]
Although I’m more of a SNES partisan, I’ve gotta give some hearty respect knuckles to the N64. Maybe it had trouble fending off the classier PS1, and maybe it spent too much time playing host to third-party trash, but in its element, the N64 was a generation-defining system. Its catalog of games is littered with [...]
Webcomics are one of the best things to happen to video game culture since R.O.B. the Robot. And, come on, that thing was awesome. So it’s awful nice of Joystiq to take us through the best of the best in their weekly Wrapup. Readers chose this hilarious strip about Wario as their favorite, and it’s [...]
Our tale of Revenge! for this week starts in a shoe store, many years ago. It was there that my dad met Paul, ass-kicking karate instructor / shoe salesman extraordinaire. Aside from teaching me the two, count ‘em, two karate combos I still know today, Paul deserves the credit for introducing my dad to the [...]
