I’ve written before about links that my husband has sent me from College Humor.
When he’s supposed to be working, he’s actually on the internet. It helps him clear his head – or so he tells me.
So yesterday, while he was screwing around clearing his head, Tucker sent me a link to this video of a chick playing Avenged Sevenfold on Expert on Rock Band on the flute. I played flute in high school [don't laugh] and I suppose Tucker thought this video would be of interest to me.
About a minute into the video, I knew I had found internet and …read more

If you peruse the EveryJoe.com page, you’ll notice that I usually write for the Football category here, not the Gaming category. As one of the writers and founding members of the site Binge Gamer, however, I had the opportunity to attend GameX in Philly this weekend. You can check out Binge Gamer for tons of coverage of the event, but I wanted to also do a review of this con right here on EveryJoe.
First, a little about the con itself. It was actually held at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, located in Oaks, PA. This was the first year for …read more

Electronic Arts (EA), the makers of the NCAA football video games, as well as Madden and a slew of other sports-related video games, is already being sued by a few players who say that they didn’t have the right to use their likeness in a college-related game. This week, two big names in the NFL stepped forward to support the lawsuit.
You may not know the name Sam Keller, who’s the former quarterback heading up the battle against EA, but it’s likely that you know the names Jim Brown and Herb Adderley, who are both Hall of Famers. On Monday, they …read more

This trailer looks sick. Just freakin’ sick. Seriously.
As awesome as it looks, I’m still on the fence about this game.
Will the game play be exactly the same as in the first Assassin’s Creed?
Is it going to include 20 missions that all include the same basic steps but with different scenery and a different time period?
Right now, I don’t care.
I just want to drool over the pretty, pretty pictures and not worry about if the game is going to rock or if it’s going to suck. I won’t be pre-ordering it [even thought both the black and white versions look great] …read more

Plants vs. Zombies comes out this week and I hadn’t heard of it before but I have to confess that the super cheesy (and moderately lame) trailer totally won me over.  I am a sucker for clever marketing and the ridiculous and slightly insane video for the game was super effective – I’m actually going to play this crazy-sounding game and I NEVER play PC games.  Besides, who can resist a game with a tagline like this: “get ready to soil your plants.”

The single player action-strategy game (available for both PC and Mac) pits brain-eating zombies against an arsenal of …read more

Best Buy has a great selection of Nintendo DS games that they are selling for under $20!  They aren’t the newest titles (although, I did see some from as recently as 2008) but it’s definitely worth checking out.  I’m not going to list all of the offerings here but you can check them out on the Best Buy website.
Some that stood for me include Deal or No Deal, LEGO Batman, M&M’s Kart Racing, Big Brain Academy, LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Crossword and Brain Age 2

Games like Brain Age 2 and Crossword are always good to have since …read more

I’m not sure if you caught it or not, but Obama had a little bit to say recently about kids and our responsibility as parents. Specifically he stated that parents need to turn off the Xbox and get our kids in bed at a reasonable hour.

The article I read about his statement says that the Obama household living in the White House is a Wii family. Was he taking sides? Why didn’t he mention the Wii specifically instead of the Xbox?
Now I’m not saying we should read too much into this. Who really knows why he mentioned Xbox initially …read more

Have you come up with a game that you think could be a hit?  Take the Indie Game Challenge!  Independent gaming is so important to the industry (just think of how boring life would be without those gritty and interesting independent films!).

GameStop has partnered with The Guildhall at SMU and the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences to create the Indie Game Challenge.  Between now and October 1, 2009 you have a chance to submit your work for a chance to fly out to Las Vegas and pitch your game to top publishers.  How cool is that!?  You could also …read more

My colleague knew I am a big fan of Warcraft Frozen Throne especially the DOTA map and as such, he told me about Demigod the game.

I haven’t looked much into the game but these are the things I read:
1. You would be able to choose a demigod, similar to hero in warcraft. Each demigod has their own powers.
2. The demigod can be equipped with weapons and items.
3. The demigod levels up on experience.
4. There are multiple arenas, similar to maps in DOTA
5. Real-time strategy action
6. Destroy strongholds to gain advantage and win
It seems that this is another version of …read more

UFC Undisputed 2009 by THQ is probably the most complicated fight game I have ever played. If you think you can jump right in to it without using the tutorial, you-are-going-to-fail! Even with the tutorial it’s going to take a lot of getting used to.
The problem that I may pose for reviewing a fighting game is that I don’t play that often. I just don’t have the time.
This passed long weekend I had a chance to finish the tutorial and start playing around. The graphics are great and the game play is fun, it’s just that if you’re not the …read more