Archive for the 'Gaming' Category

Steelseries XAI — Sits At My Right Hand

Monday, August 9th, 2010

My first impression of the Steelseries XAI mouse was unabashedly gushing fandom and love. You know better than to trust those “I got a new gadget” first impressions! Well, now that I’ve lived with the Steelseries XAI for three months, I’d like to retract my previous statements and post a scathing rant about how I […]

Retro Gaming — Because New Games Suck

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

As much as I love to generalize, it’s probably wrong. So I probably shouldn’t point out that new games suck. It reminds me too much of people who constantly rant about how all new music is inferior to the classics. Well, of course the classics were great: they’re the tiny number of songs we still […]

Singularity

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Well, this looks like a reasonably fun time, but it’s yet another console game with a crappy PC port. Did they use Unreal 3 engine, the one with the jerky, deadzoned mouse support? Yes. Did they bother to make the menus PC-friendly? No. How about Field of Vision? Funny you should ask: lots of people […]