Phil Villarreal
Dish Network Promises One-Button Commercial Destruction
When DVR first entered our homes, commercials pretty much got the boot out the back door. The ability to speed through ads on our saved shows not only sheltered us from the mind-controlling scepter of the ad wizards, but freed up a bunch of time for us to do other things — Like watching more TV.
Play Original ‘Wolfenstein’ For Free On Your Browser
Back in the early 1990s, all it took to qualify a shooter as “great” was that it was better than Duck Hunt. And few were better than Duck Hunt.
Xbox 360 Fails as Hiding Place For Cocaine
Think back to the last half of whatever the decade before this one was called. You loved your Xbox 360, but probably had to keep sending it back to the manufacturer because it kept crashing.
Japanese Nintendo 3DS Game Is Overflowing With Massive Anime Boobs
Ah, Japan. A land where sexual self-exploration and gaming go hand in… pants. The Senran Kagura franchise, in which you control big-boobed female ninjas who lose more clothing the more damage they take, embraces its dirtiness.
‘Super Mario 4′ And ‘Pikmin 3′ For The Wii U Will Debut At E3
Turns out that not-so-bold prediction we made yesterday that the ‘Super Mario Bros. 4′ would be headed to Nintendo’s new Wii U console worked out better than that bet we had on Syracuse to win the NCAA tournament. Mario mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed that Nintendo would bring a new Wii U Mario game to June’s E3 expo in Los Angeles.
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Learn to Count Cards at Blackjack — Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing are articles intended to help the average guy prepare for some of life’s oddest events. It’s just advice. It’s better than being clueless.
Ever see that movie ’21′? It starred Kevin Spacey as an MIT professor who masterminded a card-counting scheme that allowed he and his students to scam Vegas casinos out of tons of money...
Sony’s New Handheld ‘Vita’ Has Us Screaming ‘Viva La Vita’
When you’re walking around with Sony’s bulky new handheld gaming device in your front pocket, you may get the line “Is that a Vita in your pocket or are you happy to see me?” Your answer will be “Yes, that is a Vita in my pocket, but I’m not happy to see you because social norms dictate that we’ll have to talk rather than pretend one another don’t exist so I can play some ‘Uncharted: Golden Abyss
‘Amy’ Is Awful Enough To Make You Hate Video Games and Life Itself [REVIEW]
We used to laugh at pundits like this who say video games are worthless trash — or worse, a tool of the devil meant to torment your soul. That is, until we played Amy, which proves those sentiments exactly right.
A vestige of the nearly extinct survival horror genre, the game is horrifying for all the wrong reasons. If y
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8 Hot Video Games To Beg Santa For This Xmas
You’re excused if you’ve last track of all the marquee video games that have hit shelves in the past several weeks. Just like Tim Tebow, game publishers hold back their best stuff for the end. Even those of us who play and read about games constantly have trouble keeping track of what’s out there.
‘The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword’ is the Only Reason To Still Own the Wii [Game Review]
Mock us if you must, but we’ve always been suckers for running around pretend forests while wearing green skirt-tunics and imagining we’re pointy-eared, boy heroes.
‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3′ — Game Review
Even if ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’ was a terrible disappointment that also punched you in the groin every time you loaded the game, you’d have to buy it.