So much has happened in the recent weeks that it is hard to find a place to start this diary entry. First and foremost, I got married last weekend. Now begins my life as a married gamer. Just before that, though, I think you all remember that my XBox 360… more »

So last Wednesday, I went and picked up Halo: Reach for the XBox 360. Thursday night I came home from work and booted my XBox 360. I was in the middle of queueing some episodes from Season 2 of How I Met Your Mother for download. My fiance and I have bee… more »

I recently wrapped up my last 30-day rotation of gaming. I had a great time playing a few titles under this renewed effort to play fewer games in a more focused space. My new schema is not to play more than about 5 titles in a 30 day rotation. Over the l… more »

DICE has a resume a mile deep. The company was founded in the late 80s. Making some titles for various computer platforms, they catapulted to stardom with the release of Battlefield 1942. So I give them a by on the previous experience up until that relea… more »

PC World - Holy Trump Cards, Batman!!! Microsoft apparently outed the outsters (whatever that means) by throwing down a mad trump card for the other two manufacturers to flog themselves in an attempt to follow up. It gave away production units of its… more »

These are not my favorite games of all time, but just my top ten lists of my current phase of gaming:PC:Ghost ReconGhost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2Ground Control 2Icewind Dale IIJust CauseLeft for DeadMass EffectMax Payne 2Need for… more »

After much dorking around with Microsoft in the spring of 2007, when my XBox 360 broke, I replaced it with a 360 Elite. When my first (single Ethernet port) router finally burned out in the summer of 2002, I replaced it with my Siemens Speedstream router… more »

Where is the gaming console controversy in 2009? The executives have stopped throwing barbs at each other. Is it because of the changing of the guard (Peter Moore of MS went to EA; Phil Harrison left Sony to go to a game developer/publisher) or is it bec… more »

It has been quite nearly 3.5 years since the Xbox 360 launched to much acclaim. Several hundred red-rings of death later, the little green console is certainly entering its waning years of pre-eminence. I have postulated on several forums that I fully ex… more »

There are a lot of thoughts that come floating in a rush for me on this topic, so please forgive me if I meander (like that is anything unusual anyway). My first thought is to ask for some help from the other old curmudgeons on the historic trend… more »