I wanted to write about this sooner, but I went and saw Iron Man on Friday night.  If you like comic book movies and you haven't had the chance to go yet, I recommend it.

I'm not overly familiar with the Iron Man comics.  Aside from the movie, and maybe one or two episodes of that ridiculous '90s animated series, my first exposure to the character ( Read more... )

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe:


WHY?

Okay, let's forget how bad the SNES Justice League fighting game was.  Let us also forget how bad Mortal Kombat has been for the past ten years.  Let's even forget about how Capcom already made several successful crossovers with the Marvel universe.  Even with the news of a game pitting 50 Cent against the Middle ( Read more... )

Three hours and fifteen minutes left in April Fool's Day, and I managed to avoid getting pranked all day.  I thought I could make it.

Then I got rickrolled.

I forgot how absolutely cracked those old console Star Wars games were.  I mean, what?

BEHOLD!  Darth SCORPION!

Extra win for mentioning the Han versus Carbonite Chamber fight in Super Empire Strikes Back. XD

There are bad ideas for video game storylines.  There are terrible ideas.

And then there's this.

Oh my god.  I'm torn between laughing until my lungs hurt and palming my face in shame for humanity.  I just can't decide.

Behold, the first Easter Egg.

The title pretty much sums up the dream I had last night.  One minute, I'm watching a real life game of Monopoly unfold, standing with some other people in a desert around a large Park Place space lying there on the ground.  Then the cannibalistic mutants show up and we're holing up in an old cabin ( Read more... )

A guy I know from an online forum recently got back his PS3 that he had sent in for disc drive repairs last month, only instead of fixing the console, they sent him a brand new one.  How does he know this?  It has a new hard drive, meaning that he's lost all of his saved games on it, including the 100+ hours worth of save data he had poured into ( Read more... )

What would honestly make me consider dropping the shitload of money that would be required for me to both buy Rock Band and get my 360 online?

This.

Guitar Her-what now?

I saw a link to this on Kotaku, but frankly, FFX-2 is so bad I couldn't fathom enjoying it even when drunk out of my mind and on the verge of blacking out.