I have to admit, I just don't get it. I tried GTA III (Grand Theft Auto).  Didn't do much for me.  Tried GTA Vice City.  Same thing.  I liked the sandbox nature of the game, but I guess I just don't really like playing the anti-hero.  I guess I am just too much of a goody-two-shoes.  Probably the same reason I maxed out my Light Side nature in KotOR I and II and swung all the way to the Open Palm style in Jade Empire. Despite that all, though, I still don't se...

Years ago, Epic Games released the demo for Unreal Tournament 2003. I had never played the original Unreal Tournament (UT), as I just wasn't really a fan of shooters. But the demo for UT2003 hooked me. It was my first year of medical school, and we used to play LAN matches during our lunch break. It was awesome. I immediately went out and found a copy of the original UT and proceeded to play it like crazy. I was hooked. Fast forward a year or two and Epic released the demo for UT2004. Desp...

Time and again, Sony has demonstrated its incompetence.    No example could be more obvious than with the upcoming launch of the Playstation 3.  Early reports are that the online component is broken.  Resistance: Fall of Man , one of the biggest and most important launch titles, has reported that they are going to have to build their own online sign in, friend list, messaging system, etc.  Tony Hawk 8 won't even have online play at launch on the PS3.  An...

For years I considered myself a gamer.  No, that is not quite right.  I considered myself a PC gamer.  An important distinction. For while there are certainly those who game on both consoles and PCs, there is often a rift, a division between the two groups.  With the current trends in consoles, I believe the division is closing some, but in the past there was a distinct separation of what type of game you played on a PC and what type you played on a console. For many ye...

I have numerous favorite gaming moments.  My Saturday afternoon marathon of DOOM II that resulted in me being locked in the University Library.  My first time firing up Half Life (though that game makes my list of all time game disappointments as well).  My first time playing the full 3D of Descent II (boy, I would get dizzy playing that one).  The final cutscene of Starcraft.  Reverting from hyperspace to see Kharak burning. But one moment tops them all. Final...

Sometime during the last year or so I changed. It wasn't something I planned, it wasn't something I was looking for or hoping for. It sort of snuck up on me and I still am not sure how it happened. But lately the signs have been unmistakable. I am a gamer no more. In the past I would spend the majority of my net time browsing game websites. I read every new review for PC games at Gamespot, Gamespy, and the Adrenaline Vault. I was one of the top posters in the Adrenaline Vault forum...