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By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves(at)uwm.edu
Kane and Lynch is a game probably most famed in the gaming community for being the game that potentially led to the firing of Jeff Gerstmann, former game reviewer for Internet monolith Gamespot.com. Gerstmann was let go directly following a poor review of the game Kane and Lynch: Dead Men. Gamespot and parent […]
By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves(at)uwm.edu
No More Heroes, a game released for the Wii by Ubisoft earlier this year, has gotten generally good reviews. It has been hailed as the Kill Bill of video games, and in certain ways, that’s a pretty accurate way to describe it. When I think of assassins fighting assassins and ridiculous amounts of […]
By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves(at)uwm.edu
It occurred to me, a month too late, that I never picked a best game of 2007. Though the New Year has already come, I feel it would be remiss of me as a gamer, nay, as a human being, if I didn’t weigh in my thoughts on the […]
By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves(at)uwm.edu
The ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board) acts as the guiding light for parents by rating games according to appropriateness, like the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) but for video games. The ratings rank in the following order: EC-Early Childhood; E-Everyone; E10+-Everyone 10+; T-Teen; M-Mature; AO-Adults […]
By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves(at)uwm.edu
When I rented NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, I expected it to be a whimsical romp through an enchanted land of dreams. It wasn’t. The game displayed…
I’m sorry. I’m having difficulty judging this game, and the reason why is a pretty simple one: I’m not ten years old. Very little in the past has […]
By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves(at)uwm.edu
I’m from Wisconsin (Milwaukee, specifically), and I have a certain level of pride in where I live. I remember checking out some magazine article a couple years back claiming Milwaukee to be the No. 1 Most Underestimated City in the Country. I wear that probably outdated fact like a […]
By LISA SOKOLOWSKI
cactusiv(at)gmail.com
My brothers got Wii for Christmas. For months, all I heard about how fun it was going to be to play Mario and Sonic At The Olympic Games on Christmas morn — and I also heard how my youngest brother Mike was going to beat my other brother Joe at Guitar Hero 3.
My […]
By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves(at)uwm.edu
Mass Effect has been, for a long time, one of the most hotly anticipated RPGs to come to the Xbox 360 since, well, I suppose Bioshock, though many people will argue that Bioshock is more a first person shooter than an RPG. This brings me conveniently and artfully […]
By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves(at)uwm.edu
Well, another Christmas has come and gone. As I lie here in my modest apartment wrapped in my brand new blanket and cuddling with my cat, Sgt. Kerplunkers, I can’t help but reflect on Christmases past. One Christmas specifically comes to mind, a Christmas that marked my induction into […]
By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves(at)uwm.edu
This is a nice thing we have going, Internet. I write down my opinions on various video games, deliver them unto your eternal bosom and you make them available for folk who need to be told whether said games are worth their time. However, a piece of advice is only as good as […]
By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves(at)uwm.edu
Of all the classical fantasy series, I enjoy The Golden Compass trilogy (alternately known as His Dark Materials) the most. Phillip Pullman writes with a skill unparalleled by other “great” authors. He creates a world of richness and depth without boring them to tears like Tolkein; he contemplates […]
By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves(at)uwm.edu
My dad and I are two very different people. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a pretty impressive guy, and certainly has earned the rank of urban folk hero among my friends, we just don’t see eye to eye on some things. Like video games. It’s not that he doesn’t […]
By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves(at)uwm.edu
Black Friday was a giant let down. After what I’ve seen on the news in past years, I was expecting riots, brutal consumer violence, perhaps a burning Santa effigy or something. Nope, none of that. Sure, it got a little busy at times, but by and large it wasn’t […]
By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves(at)uwm.com
Well, tomorrow is Black Friday, an event that has long passed me by unnoticed, save for the rather uninteresting news reports telling tales of pre-Christmas carnage. I am not really a shopper. True, I can happily wile away the hours inside a Game Stop or a Best Buy, but […]
By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves(at)uwm.edu
There are a lot of great games that have been released this week, among them, Assassin’s Creed and Super Mario Galaxy.
Unfortunately, the time between their release and the deadline for this review is so short that I wasn’t able to play them thoroughly enough to write a good review. Next week, I have […]
By ANDREW STEEVES
steeves@uwm.edu
[[Ed.’s note: You’re going to see a couple of these Editor’s notes in the next few weeks. We’ve got a few new columns, beginning with this video game column, which you’ll see every Thursday.]]
And the debate rages on. Sparked by the recent release of Manhunt 2, parents everywhere (led by the […]