Excessive PlayStation gaming causes weird hand-related skin condition

I’ve actually heard the same thing about people who masturbate too much. Perhaps these are the same people?

Echo chamber

Remember that recent quip about video game blogger irrelevancy? Matt Casamassina over at IGN takes back the crown with this gem about MadWorld:

“Usually, lack of 480p support can be credited to developer laziness,” writes Casamassina. “No way such a claim can be leveled at Platinum Games for MadWorld… I’m wondering, then, if the studio simply wasn’t aware that 480p is ‘kind of a big deal’ for a chunk of Wii owners”

Remember when a “chunk” of console owners cared about having fun with their games, and not progressive or interlaced bullshit statements like the one above? Oh, they still do, and this is just another out of touch games journalist with a shrinking audience? You don’t say.

And, maybe the developers were too focused on, I dunno, making a good game than worrying about the inflated self-importance of the “HD movement.” Just a hunch. It’s also in black and white. So, there’s that.

Bye bye birdie

If you listen hard enough, you can actually hear the relevancy of today’s “popular” video games blogs and publications slowly slipping away.

Of MMOs

Activision Blizzard should just start licensing out the World of Warcraft name or think up some crazy content sharing agreement with all these other hapless MMO developers.

Seriously, nothing but WoW Lite, that Warhammer MMO (barely), does anything for anyone. Ever.

Random Monday thought

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that this is the year hundreds of thousands of tough guy “hardcore gamers” will quietly fire up and play the shit out of their neglected Wii consoles? Not all at once, of course, as pride is a fickle bitch affecting some Neanderthals more than others.

Rats jump from sinking ship to lonely, uninhabited island

Normally, I’d commend a print magazine for bucking the current trend by adding new subscribers in 2008, instead of losing them like so many of their kin. But then I heard it was PlayStation Official Magazine and knew it was just all the delusional fanboys flocking to the only place left for positive PS3 news.

Edge Killzone 2 review score smokes out internet’s losers

So Edge gives Killzone 2 a 7/10, and the Internet (predictably) explodes in anger.

Let’s not let this amazing opportunity go to waste: For this brief moment we know where all the internet losers are–go find them and take them out!