Say what you want about Brad Wardell, but there may be no one of relevance in the industry right now who is doing a better job of finding a balance between running a business and respecting his customers.
Another year has unbelievably come and gone, and Gamerswithjobs.com still does everything in its power to sap the productivity right out of your work day.
Mercenaries 2, Smacking Around QT3, Left 4 Dead, Gears of War 2, Rock Band 2, Hothead Games, Dragon Age Construction, Sins of a Solar Expansions, PAX Coverage Galore, Your Emails and more!
A sprinkling of solid game releases headline yet another relatively well populated week. For those of you not drowning under the digital joys of Seattle's PAX convention, there's fun to be had by RPG fans, sports fans and fans of things that go boom.
It was with a certain amount of melancholy that I traveled to Leipzig this year to attend the Games Convention. As the contract between the Leipziger Messe and the publisher organization BIU expired this year, the latter revealed plans to stage the show in Cologne from 2009 on. An expo called gamescom; the Games Convention brand belongs to the Leipziger Messe.
It's getting close to that time of year when we fire up the prize machine and kick off our annual donation drive! We've already got an awesome new icon ready for our long time donors and big, big plans for the giveaways. This year will be a little bit different though; we won't be accepting games to enter into the prize pool like we have in the past.
Warhammer Online, Too Human, Bionic Commando Rearmed, Force Unleashed, Strong Bad's Cool Game, Chrono Trigger, Trying To Do Too Much, Your Emails and more!
Even as a kid, I should have known better. I stared at the box cover in the local video store, after prowling the isles like a shark hungry for Roy Scheider, and tried to parse the image with my sugar-addled mind. It said, "Bionic Commando," but he didn’t look bionic. His arm wasn’t a hook, just a friggin' arm with a fancypants bracelet on it. Maybe he could fly?
While this final week of August offers no significant big budget stand out title like many of the coming weeks will, the release list of the next few days is actually quite strong. There may not be much here that you will have likely lusted after for months, but several titles strike me as intriguing at the very least.