Saints Row 2 (PC) Review

Sometimes, you really do get what you pay for, and this is one of those cases. I say this because when I picked the game up, it was a free title in celebration of Saints Row 3 and 4 being released on gog.com. I understood it’s reputation when I made this choice, both as the “poor man’s GTA” on console and an abomination of a port on PC, but between the price, curiosity of where the infinitely more praised sequels came from, and a promise from gog.com to have fixed the game, I decided it was worth having. Course when I tried it out at the time, it was still fucked to hell and literally I couldn’t get the game to even run at a consistent speed. Now, I am not sure if more fixes came in or my changes in hardware have made it better, but I was able to actually have it play relatively right. But it still wasn’t worth it. I gave it it’s due 8 hours before walking away but honestly, I did just that… and did so more bored then entertained. Come on in and see.

Darksiders 2 (WiiU) Review

Welcome to the WiiU! This is a sentence that, sadly, few people can really say. But I have recently gotten my hands on the system. Once I had satisfied my curiosity about all the various extra features the system has, it was time to pick up a game and play, and I already had my first game picked out. It took a little bit of hunting, but I came home with Darksiders 2. So how was it? Well, I wish it could have been as amazing as my last time playing the original Wii (since the WiiU plays all Wii games, I unplugged and put it away), but that would simply be unreasonable. Instead, well, read on.

Linux: A Possible Future?

A little while ago, Gamespy produced a short article in which they suggested we might, just might, be seeing the beginning of a shift in PC gaming from Windows dominating to Linux taking over. In the short article, they promptly asked at the end if we as gamers would embrace such a change. Today, we explore the possibilities… what if we are about to see the beginning of this shift? How would it happen, and how would we be effected? Join me in a little “future history” and see if maybe you could see this happening.

Darksiders (PS3) Review

Here is a title that has had a rocky past with. When it was on the way, I did not have a PS3 or 360. I did not want either machine. But I was interested in this game. The world drew my attention. But it wasn't enough to get me to get a console.... other games would do that with a PS3 in due time. But when this game hit PC, I HAD to have it. And within 30 minutes of purchase, the game was shelved due to many many glitches, the worse of which made my PC screen black out to show a pallet of shapes in really low resolution and then reset. (It was like an arcade machine that broke.) So finally, I picked it up for the PS3, hoping for a much more stable experience. Well, it was at least stable, but let's get into that as we go.