Welcome Spam & Tex!

This site has now been around for over 6 years, sharing the experiences of games over our time in this little space online. Personally, I have enjoyed the hell out of it playing games across the ages and in the process uncovering both gems and duds time has forgotten and were at their hype. And I have not done this alone, as Max has joined me in this little space of on the web for a time.

But reviewing games can be relatively uninteractive, and while I have gotten into Streaming from time to time, and in fact will be taking part in the 100 Days of Gaming for Extra Life (hint, hint, we start this Thursday), a few friends of mine have begun a small youtube project I would like to share in this very spirit. And to this end, their latest video might as well be a trailer….

If you smiled at this video, there is a lot more where this came from. Please come check them out either by clicking here to reach their youtube page or clicking the new link for Spam & Text in our side menu! Have fun and give these folks a warm welcome! Thank you!

Well That Could Have Gone Better, Eh Machinima?

The news has been buzzing around for a day or so now, and bringing it up here will likely get me called some kind of fanboy, but… we really should talk about it, as it brings into question the value of anyone you don’t know’s word rather directly. So here we go. It appears that over the past few weeks, Microsoft and Machinima have had a backdoor deal in which the big Ms were paying off youtube channels to promote the Xbox One. Now this in itself wasn’t that big a deal, considering we see things like that all the time in movies, games, sporting events and many other public actions. A company or three will sponsor the event provided they get some positive publicity from it.

But the problem here arises in that the very terms of the event required the people doing it to not breath a word that about this sponsorship.