By Carl Nelson on May 29, 2008
It was just over a year ago when we reviewed the world’s first full Blu-Ray Java title, Dragon’s Lair. That game was originally released in 1983, but remained a standby in arcades for over a decade. You may have had similar experiences to mine when I first encountered games like Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace [...]
Posted in Video Games | Tagged Blu-Ray, Game Reviews, HDTV, Retro Gaming
By Carl Nelson on September 23, 2007
Here’s me being brutally honest: The Halo 3 hype is driving me insane.
You see, I never owned an XBOX 1. I never got into Halo at all. Personally, I can’t stand playing First Person Shooters with a gamepad. I don’t know if I will ever get good at it. One of the reasons I loved [...]
Posted in Video Games | Tagged first person shooters, Game Reviews, Microsoft, XBOX 360, XBOX 360 Exclusive
By Ed Lau on August 22, 2007
If you’re like me, you went out early on the 21st and grabbed the first copy of Bioshock available on the shelf. After months of analyzing demo videos and drooling over plasmid effects, it’s finally here and I’m delighted to say, Bioshock is undoubtedly awesome. Since this is a thinking man’s FPS, [...]
Posted in PC Gaming, Video Games | Tagged Game Reviews, XBOX 360 Exclusive
By Ed Lau on July 2, 2007
I usually refuse to line up for anything. I couldn’t be bothered to line up for a Wii or a PS3 (even though I just wanted to flip them on eBay) or any new games coming out. Heck, I don’t even want to wake up early enough on release days [...]
Posted in Video Games | Tagged Game Reviews, Playstation 3, XBOX 360
By Elad Yarom on June 17, 2007
Seeing all the retro gaming and virtual console gaming going on lately made me nostalgic about my early PC gaming years. One of the games I remember as striking was Duke Nukem 3D.
I remember seeing the game for the first time at my cousin’s house; I was playing innocent childish games at the time [...]
Posted in Video Games | Tagged Game Reviews, PC Games, Retro Gaming
By Carl Nelson on May 28, 2007
This past weekend represents something that is significant to geeks all over the world – it was the 30th anniversary of the original Star Wars movie theatrical release. Many of us weren’t even born by then, but make no mistake; Star Wars had a huge influence on our lives as gamers throughout most of [...]
Posted in Video Games | Tagged Game Reviews, Retro Gaming
By Carl Nelson on May 15, 2007
It’s Ninja Week at Nintendo, as 2 of this week’s 3 games are ports of Ninja arcade games. We have 2 games for the NES (500 points) and 1 for TurboGraphx 16 (800 points). Let’s do a retrospective of each, and also compare them to their original arcade versions.
Ninja Gaiden | NES | 500 Points [...]
Posted in Video Games | Tagged Game Reviews, Retro Gaming, Virtual Console, Wii
By Ed Lau on May 12, 2007
Since I built a new computer about a week ago, I’ve been going through all the great games I’ve missed for the last year, when I found that my old Althon 64 just wasn’t cutting it anymore. The list is long: Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Guild Wars, Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, etc. There [...]
Posted in Video Games | Tagged Game Reviews, Retro Gaming
By Carl Nelson on April 30, 2007
Week-by-week, Nintendo’s list of Virtual Console titles keeps growing. As you can imagine, most of the games made available were huge hits back in the day when they were first introduced. But perhaps there are some games you might have missed – maybe you skipped the Nintendo 64, or were a Genesis fanboy [...]
Posted in Video Games | Tagged Game Reviews, Retro Gaming, Wii
By Carl Nelson on April 17, 2007
With our review of Dragon’s Lair Blu-Ray being so well-received, I thought it might be a good idea to talk about retro games more on HCW Tech Blog. I don’t know about you, but I love looking back to the games we loved – and hated – as a child. Everyone has done the [...]
Posted in Video Games | Tagged Game Reviews, Retro Gaming
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