October 2006 - Posts

Review of Battlefield 2142 - **
Published 10-21-2006 11:03 PM | Mark
Battlefield 2142 will be instantly familiar to veterans of Battlefield 2; the two games use the same graphics engine, and very little of it has been enhanced for this newest iteration of Digital Illusions' classic multiplayer franchise. That said...
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A point against XBox 360
Published 10-21-2006 11:00 PM | Mark
That just occured to me is this: Most of the really good games for that system will be ported to PC at some time or other. The seminal example of this is Bioshock, which looks excellent despite its apparent thematic denigration of Ayn Rand. And since...
I'm salivating over the new consoles
Published 10-14-2006 11:54 PM | Mark
all of them. I am going to buy the Wii, and I am easily most excited about it. This preview of Red Steel , which carefully documents how the controls work, sold me. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Exercise is about to be integrated into video...
Tool concert review
Published 10-04-2006 10:02 AM | Mark
That last posting is so embarassing in retrospect. I cannot really "review" the Tool concert because my critical faculty disengaged early as I let the glorious sounds wash over me. So, Mike, Dan and I headed out early and checked into our hotel...
Tool concert Tomorrow
Published 10-02-2006 11:16 PM | Mark
I'm sure I have mentioned before that there are two bands I love above all others, Tool and Nine Inch Nails. So it is a good year when I can see both bands in concert. Tomorrow I will drive down to Manchester, NH, with the Agro boys Mike and Dan,...