Today in Gaming News! - A Wayne Strickland Blog
Hi, I'm Wayne Strickland I like short walks on the beach, piña colada jelly beans, and (not) getting caught in the rain. I'm coming to you on 8/3/2011, from the information emporium known as GIO....
View Article5 Things You Should Know Before Buying A Used GOTY Game
I buy used games. Generally that isn’t a bad thing but if will find a used copy of a new game ill buy it over a new copy. But with the industry in decline and all, I guess we really should buy new...
View ArticleWhy I Think The "Original" Playstation 3 Wasn't a E3 "Failure"
When I read last month's Gameinformer I came across an article named "E3 Failures", an article designed to feed on the missed expectations of E3 attendees and onlookers. I honestly enjoyed the...
View ArticleIm Sorry. ~ Apologies and Updates - Read This If You Read My Blog or Today in...
Honestly, I'm sorry. Ive had a bit of a hiatus, but I'm gonna get back on the band-wagon and continue posting blogs. For the last couple of weeks I've been really busy, and i haven't had enough time...
View ArticleScrew This Game! - Mirrors Edge
When I first saw Mirrors Edge back in 2008 I thought it looked really cool. I thought the visual style was very interesting, but the parkour style gameplay really stood out to me, and it was a...
View ArticleDiablo 3’s Auction Houses: My Thoughts
I really haven’t had time to express my thoughts about Diablo 3s' auction houses, but here we are and now is just as good of a time as any. Just to make sure we are on same page, there are two...
View ArticleFirst Impressions: Battlefield 3
War is hell ... and since I don't have a clever segway to offer, I'm just gonna say that Battlefield 3 is pretty intense. Normally I don't play first-person shooters, it's not that I have anything...
View ArticleLaid to Rest
Within the last couple of years the video game industry has had an explosion of stellar franchises that arguably rival any other kind of media created thus far. But unlike years previous,...
View ArticleAn Issue of Accessibility
Some time ago I was returning a few movies I rented and decided that I wanted a video game. Something new, but something I wouldn't naturally buy. After skimming the ridiculously small PS3...
View ArticleCurbing the RAGE! – A few tips to help you calm down
Let's face it, people online are angry ... Really angry. So angry, in fact, that most of the 'net has become uncomfortable for those of us without a healthy dose of gamma rays. How might we...
View ArticleDeveloping Within Your Means - A look at the video-game industry's financial...
More and more studios are having financial problems nowadays. It's honestly really sad when such creative forces and passionate people can't do what they're best at. The world isn't a better...
View ArticleToday in Gaming News! Part: Deux - Quack Quack
Hello and welcome to Today in Gaming News, the news that would go way better in a video format. I'm Wayne Strickland, your superior sultan of superstitious scandals. Today in the news, we get a new...
View ArticleFive Things I Want to See in the Next Xbox
The current Xbox is home to millions of gamers as well as the go to media-device for hundreds of families, but the system we know now isn't the one that we bought back in 2006 (more so literally...
View ArticleToday in Gaming News – Episode 3: The “Not-so-Holy" Trinity
Hello and welcome to Today in Gaming News, where we all want to have a Double Rainbow experience. I am Wayne Strickland, ahem, your pants. Please slip me on, but throw me into the dryer...
View ArticleGears of War: Judgment - Review
Firstly, there aren’t a lot of things in this game that are Gears-proper. It was developed not by Epic, but by the studio made famous by Bulletstorm, People Can Fly. Forget playing as Marcus Fenix...
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