One man’s quest for more time has led him to some interesting theories. Napoleon, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and Winston Churchill, to name a few, all used a 6 nap per day, each nap at 20 minutes, to increase thier productivity. Does it really work? Read on to find out what this man found out.
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Are you a real racing game or are you a novelty racing-type game? I’m just saying that the time has come for you to come-of-age and decide if you want to do big-boy stuff or that nonsense that they show on G4 in the middle of the night. You can’t have it both ways anymore and kudos are not innovative anymore. Kudos, or hot tears of driving shame, need to be quietly laid to rest.
Bizarre, you’ve got a good thing going here; it’s a nice cross between arcade racing games like Burnout and punch-you-in-the-face games like Forza. Please, for the love of all things sweet and innocent, stop forcing me to get Kudos to advance in the so-called career mode. Oh, and by the way, your calendar of events blows.
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I have run across several pieces on the internets lately about the legitimacy and ethics of video game reviews online. As a person who works for the money I spend on games, it’s important to me that the reviews I read are honest. Unfortunately, I believe that game reviews are generally more inflated and tampered with than most other media reviews.
The Eye of Judgment is one of the most conceptually interesting video game releases of the past several years. As a peripheral-based game it’s an intriguing release that brings several questions to mind. Why did Sony decide to make this game? How was the game’s marketing plan established? Has the marketing plan been successful? Is the game receiving the attention necessary to maximize its potential? As a passionate video game observer and fan, I think it’s a title that is worthy of further study and discussion. It is unique enough to warrant a comprehensive analysis.
Here you go, wiitards. SMB3 will be available tomorrow on the virtual console. Good news, I suppose. Where would you guys rate SMB3 in the pantheon of SMB games? Although the game was pretty awesome when released, I think I liked SMB64 a little bit better. And Super Mario World was a better game, but I didn’t have quite as much fun with that one. For that matter, I probably had the most fun with New SMB on DS last year. So where would you rank SMB3? My list:
Thanks to Madden’s hilariously bad sales figures and another underwhelming FIFA game, EA is now hemorrhaging money. Profits are now down from 22 million last year to a 195 million LOSS this year. And now 350 employees are losing their jobs.
Hey EA, pull your head out of your ass. Quit with the idiotic DLC pricing, and get a good team together at Tiburon to fix Madden! Let’s make things better - you have the resources to do it!
I am not really sure where society currently stands on nudity in games. Personally, I think that if we can have ultra-violence, we should be able to have nudity. After all, a little sexy time never hurt anyone nearly as much as shooting them in the face, and practically every game on the shelf lets you do that. The games have ratings on them. Kids games are for kids, adult games are for adults. You hear me middle aged lady with 10 year old waiting at midnight on a school night for Halo 3? I don’t care if your son won a Nobel Prize, he’s 10 and this game is rated M for Mature - got it?
Wasn’t there nudity in God of War? (Note to self: must get through pile of shame)
Anyway, the new Conan game has some pretty serious nudity. Video is embedded after the break - NSFW!
This is the kind of story that warms my heart. Earlier this year, many prominent video game journalists were trumpeting Madden 08 as a major return to form for the franchise. That turned out to be total BS, and the game sucks. I can’t believe anyone would put their reputation on the line and claim that the game was going to be good, but whatever. I rented the game assuming it would suck, and suck it did.
Turns out I’m not the only one tired of EA pulling this crap and releasing junk games. This year’s Madden sales were down from 1.19 million last year to .619 million this year - a 48% decrease.
That’s an INCREDIBLE drop for Madden, EA’s cash cow. Hopefully it’s enough to knock some sense into EA. They need some Bill Belichick humble pie - they’re looking a little like Sony cica 2005 right now.
BTW, EA, I am still waiting for the promised next-gen graphics (above). I watched the 2005 NFL draft and waited for that commercial. It’s time for you to deliver.
The Cat Helmet edition of Halo is the B&M’s DO NOT WANT of the year. This is funny/annoying for several different reasons.
First, the lady at my local Gamestop hounded the hell out of me to order the cat helmet. I repeatedly told her that there would be plenty of copies of Halo 3 to go around and that I wasn’t giving them a zero interest short term loan of $20 to hold a copy of a high volume commodity.
Finally, in February, she told me that Gamestop corporate was cutting off pre-orders and that if I wanted one, I had to pre-order it NOW. I finally caved, remembering that you can always cancel pre-orders and get your money back.
Then, Circuit City had a price mistake and was selling it for $99 with free shipping. I ordered it.
Then what to do? Wait 10 business days to get my Halo on or buy it at Gamestop? Turns out that I turned the table on those GS bastards. I picked up my cat helmet at midnight and then returned the later arriving copy 2 weeks later. Honestly, I figured Gamestop would be glad to get another copy of this sought after item to sell. I was going to use the $130 towards other pre-orders anyway, so everybody wins. Then I noticed that they had a helmet sitting behind the counter. Turns out that there is a huge glut of these $130 monstrosities taking up valuable shelf space at B&Ms nationwide. Gamestop is opening copies in every store to entice people to buy them.
Yesterday Amazon.com was selling the Legendary edition for $110 with free shipping.
What a disaster! They didn’t have enough Bioshock CEs to fulfill customer pre-orders, but the Legendary editions are all over the place. Maybe it’s time to actually follow through with promises and actually make some items pre-order only. Greed is bad for business. Anyone who has watched NBC’s Deal or No Deal could tell you that.
No, I am not sure why, but Microsoft is quietly getting pwned by Sony’s PSN downloadable games. Sure, the online multiplayer is spotty at best, but man, they have much better titles. Mortal Kombat 2 (best of the series), Rampart (serious arcade gem), Super Stardust HD, Calling All Cars, and now Everyday Shooter. At this rate the PS3 will be worth having just for the PSN games. You can keep you stupid ass Uno, M$. I do like Catan, though. Maybe some more Euro Games?
Anyway, Everyday Shooter is by all accounts the cat’s ass. It’s available Thursday for $10 and about 15 controller clicks. Yes, I will complain about the PSN’s purchase process until they fix it.
