Top 10 Star Wars video games of all time
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 [...]
Remember Ultima Online? Check out the Kingdom Reborn beta this week
If your MMO experience goes beyond WoW and even EverQuest, you have probably played Ultima Online at one time or another. For me, I got into UO just a year after it started (I got The Second Age for Christmas in 1998), after dabbling a bit in MUD games before that.
UO is getting a [...]
Super Mario Bros. timeline: another perspective
Over on a NeoGAF thread discussing video game sales figures, someone has put together this nifty chart, showing Mario’s timeline not in terms of years, but in sales figures of all the Super Mario console games (in Japan only, at the time being).
This is an interesting perspective, considering that the top 2 Super Mario [...]
NINJA WEEK! Wii Virtual Console Games for the week of May 14
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 [...]
Old vs. New Horrifying FPS Games - System Shock 2 vs. FEAR
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 [...]
The 10 best games on Virtual Console
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 [...]
Retro Gamer: Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja
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 [...]
