Gamers With Jobs Radio Episode Twenty-Five

Episode Twenty-Five - April 4th, 2006 "M for Mature" Starts to Mean Something, GTA: Chicago, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter: Xbox vs. 360, Far Cry: Predator and more!

April 3rd - April 8th

It's April, and the world is changing. Many of us will be plunged into a diurnal crisis as the clocks artificially lurch forward leaving the sun up suddenly, and unusually, late. Natural selection exerts its theoretical dominance as the stubborn and terminally stupid plunge through thin ice on thawing lakes.

The Big, Blue Eye

I have a sign on my bathroom wall. It's not a picture of a sailboat with my name next to it, nor is it one of those cutesy depictions of a cherubic boy and girl asking visitors to not pee in the pool. It's a street sign. One of those Neighborhood Watch signs with the giant blue eye admonishing passersby that their every move is being watched.

Re: Oblivion

This is not a review. Frankly I have no interest in reviewing Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for a number of reasons. First I'd lose a lot of objective credibility in making statements like the following: Oblivion is one of the greatest CRPGs made. It is in the company of titles like Fallout, Planescape: Torment, Baldur's Gate, and Ultima IV.

Adventures of Old

I'm sure that anybody more than slightly beyond my own twenty-three years of age will laugh heartily when I say that I am growing old. This is because they are ancient and jaded, and their favorite thing to do is to make fun of younger people and dismiss what they say. I'm not quite to that point yet, but I can feel the metamorphosis occurring.

Gamers With Jobs Radio Episode Twenty-Four

Episode Twenty-Four - March 28th, 2006 Starcraft: Ghost Delayed, Valve Disappointed with Half-Life 2 and more! ... oh yeah, and Oblivion.

March 27th to April 2nd

With Oblivion rocking so many socks in both the forums and the industry at large, it's easy to forget that new games continue to roll in as the current financial quarter comes to an end this week. Always be extra careful at this time of year folks, sometimes games are rushed to make this important financial date.

A Muted Panoply

In the late 1990s, Interactive Magic and Erudite Software released three of the best wargames ever made: The Great Battles, respectively, of Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar. Lately I've been replaying these games and exploring the intricacies of combat across three continents and three centuries of warfare.

The Religion of Release

The last game I truly anticipated with complete abandon was Black & White, and the lesson I learned from it was so sharp, so biting, that I've never anticipated games in quite the same way since.
"In the game of chess, you can never let your opponent see your pieces." --Zapp Brannigan, Futurama

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