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Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Capcom’s Keiji Inafune is one of the veterans of the game industry. His name might not be as recognizable as Sid Meier or Shigeru Miyamoto, but Inafune has essentially been there since the beginning. His career with Capcom goes as far back as Mega Man, and he’s been a key member of the team ever [...]
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Video games are a battleground for legendary rivals. Pokemon Red vs Pokemon Blue. SNES versus Genesis. PC versus console gamers. These are conflicts that have shaped systems, games, and entire generations. One of the genres most familiar with this kind of rivalry is the 2D fighting game. In the heyday of the arcade, these games [...]
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Even though they ruled the 80s and 90s, the X-Men had a long climb to the top. Being relegated to bi-monthly reruns in the early 70s, the franchise was almost written off completely until Len Wein and Dave Cockrum overhauled the team, with Wein handing off the reigns to Chris Claremont almost immediately, who in [...]
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
The main page is running the Ology Illuminati’s thoughts on MJ, and for now, let’s remember him the way gamers should remember him – as a smooth dancing, gravity defying, transforming, child hugging hero of the night.
Farewell, sweet prince.
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
Given how awful movie tie-in games usually are, I imagine the kiddos at ScrewAttack started putting this list together 23 years ago, and only just now ten games that they’d feel alright about saying “Yes, these are good.”
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Video Games | ScrewAttack | Top 10 Movie-Based Games
XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
During those halcyon days of “bit wars,” I always considered the SEGA Genesis to be the sloppy, grunge console to the Super Nintendo’s polished, well-produced sheen. Everything on the Genesis was a little bit grittier and more loose, like the first time you hear Nirvana after listening to Duran Duran.
If we’re making parallels to [...]
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
4. Mario Kart 64 – Nintendo 64
It’s not the fast paced and frantic action that gets ya, but just one level in particular: Rainbow Road. Yeah, you could just avoid it, but there’s something about that technicolor track that draws you in, moth to flame.
3. ToeJam & Earl – Sega Genesis
If you haven’t [...]
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