Posts Tagged ‘windows’

ROMiniscing: Using a SIXAXIS on a Windows PC

Monday, May 11th, 2009

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If you want to play some classic games via PC Emulation, you’ll find that a keyboard is a poor substitute for a gamepad.  Luckily if you have a PS3, you’re good to go!  The SIXAXIS controller can be used on your PC (despite the impression you got when you plugged in the USB and winged it).

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Brutal Review Reviews: First Blood with Yahtzee and Sphinx’s Sanitarium

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

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In the last decade video games have gone from being something nerds did instead of meeting the opposite sex to that thing almost all people do instead of meeting the opposite sex. While video games have become possibly the largest entertainment industry in history, they have also gained some of the most sickly parasites of all. I speak, of course, about hack critics. While you are playing a game to enjoy it’s deep mechanics, gorgeous art, or complete lack of either, your critic counterpart is busy picking big words from a thesaurus so he can shit on your favorite new title. The OBRR is the line in the sand, and I stand on one side armed with poor grammar and crude language. Watch where you step.

Let’s start this off with the most obvious fart-sniffer on the whole goddamn Internet

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Fuck Fallout Fans

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Don’t you just love that nice alliteration? But the crassness and vulgarity of this article’s title captures the essence of it perfectly. Sometimes when a series moves forward, the hardcore fans bitch and moan because the game isn’t exactly like it was before. Fuck Fallout fans. Fuck them so hard.

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Taking Over The City: Consequences in Survival Crisis Z

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

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There’s just something that draws me in about Survival Crisis Z. I can’t quite place what it is, because there’s so many amazing aspects behind the game. I guess the biggest thing that compels me to play it would have to be the persistence of my character’s progress, even if the random generation removes the emotional attachment I have to the characters and the persistence isn’t really true persistence. The only person I really care for is myself, since eventually my party comes back and just leaving and reentering buildings respawns the characters. It’s a sort of let down, but I can understand why.

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