Archive for January, 2008

Super Smash Bros. becomes the seventh game to be awarded a perfect score by Famitsu Magazine.
An editorial on game length…and one in praise of sketchy controls.
Also, two reports on the ESA’s new political action committee.


Wario Wins

15Jan08

Masahiro Sakurai and Takai Sawano (of Wii Fit) will be at this year’s GDC.
It is Mario against Portal in this week’s IGN grudge match. While Mario is the undisputed star of Team Nintendo, some are saying that Wario is the real MVP: Edge Magazine says that Wario might be worth more than his Italian nemesis [...]


From GameCritics, Brandon Erickson argues that the virtual impossibility of experiencing everything in Mass Effect can make for a more meaningful experience, if only we’d let go of our completist tendencies.
Matt Butrovich over at Game Almighty poses a question–Why Are Next-Gen Games So Stupid? Also from Game Almighty: critics who confuse good games for “perfect” [...]