Hate being right

OK, love being right. I said Capcom was going to totally piss all over the Bionic Commando name with their 3D “hardcore gamer” update, and they did. Awful title. Indicative of how sick the industry is when it comes to innovation and bowing down to the vocal minority hardcore crowd.

We deal in hypocrisy, not news

I wonder if the video games “press” will be as vocal about the silly “PSP Go!” name as they were with the Wii? That was a rhetorical question.

Warm fuzzy thoughts

Remember when Ctrl+Alt+Del was worth reading?

Sony PR needs to frakking die already

New Sony PR line: The DSi is for kids. Did you know PSP has Hannah Montana?

Microsoft doesn’t need no stinking developers for next Xbox

Wonderful news out of GDC this week! Microsoft is hard at work on the next Xbox, and could give a shit what developers–you know, the guys who design the games–think about it.

“I get the impression they’re focusing on owning the living room,” said Warren Spector. “One device that lets you watch movies, television and play games and music and all that stuff.

Imminent fail achievement, unlocked!

Michael Pachter is a giant fucking jackass

Seriously. Can I become an analyst now? This guy literally only exists because of lazy blog reporting. His “analysis,” such as it is, consists of little more than red meat quotes for small minded people. He’s been wrong, literally, about pretty much everything relating to video games for the past three years. Douche.

Dear IGN

Putting out blatantly false information about a company that *could* be true just so you can say your “inside info” elicited some kind of response from said company is not “breaking news.” It’s just being a page view-whoring group of douche bags.

I’m having trouble remembering anything good that came out of Acclaim lately

Why are the publishers and developers with the worst games the ones complaining the loudest about used games? The mind simply boggles.

GameStop is scared

Why else would its CEO fire off a near-instantaneous response to Amazon’s experimental used game buy back program? GameStop stock tanked yesterday on the news too, by the way.

Bend over

They’re asking $250 for the premium Beatles version of Rock Band? Harmonix knows that rhythm games aren’t cool anymore, right?