When I first read on Game Informer’s site that another Dreamcast game is coming out in 2010, my first reaction was, “Are you fucking kidding me?!”
No. Really. That was my reaction.
While I was/am a huge Sega fan, I never bought a Dreamcast and instead stayed with my Sega until Sony released the Playstation at which time I jumped ship. I went on to get the PS2 and I’ve since moved on to the PS3 and haven’t looked back…until now.
I headed over to the blog for Hypertension [the forthcoming Dreamcast title] and expected to be underwhelmed by a YouTube video or …read more

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will be released on November 10, 2009 and I know that a lot of fans of the franchise are anxiously waiting to get their hands on a copy.  Every Joe is working with GameStop to give two lucky winners a copy for PlayStation 3 and another will win a $50 GameStop gift card.

Entering the contest is easy!  All you have to do is leave me a comment about why you love the Call of Duty games and/or what you’re most looking forward to with Modern Warfare 2.  The contest ends on November 14, 2009 …read more

The battle for search is still going strong. All search companies are continually tweaking and adjusting their algorithms to help improve their search results and keep those same formulas for being gamed by developers.
 
With Microsoft releasing Bing and Google working on their newest search algorithm called Google Caffeine, there’s a lot of effort around incorporating the idea of social search with your organic results.
One of my biggest complaints about search is that my results are impacted by just about everything that’s available on the web. If I’m searching for a question about a certain topic, I don’t want to get …read more

Tonight, my husband left for Navy Drill for the weekend.
Before he left, we all went to Target to stock-up on essentials for the time he’ll be gone so I don’t have to wrangle a couple of kids and a shopping cart by myself.
As is often the case, I found myself staring at the PS3 games that Target and salivating at the copies of Assassin’s Creed II and Borderlands that were just hanging out in there happy little plastic holders and calling my name.
Really. They were calling my name. Upon further examination, maybe I should worry about that little detail.
Anyway.
Target has …read more

If you’re quick, you should go follow @MSNBCHeadlines on twitter. They’ve had their account hacked and let’s just say the person that’s in control of the account is having a little fun with the media outlet.

I’m not sure how it is all these accounts on twitter have been getting hacked so prolifically lately. I don’t think all of these people have simple passwords that are getting cracked, so what’s happening? Are there machines infected with other malware that’s collecting login information?
Aside from the major PR issues that a entity like MSNBC is going to have to deal with after this …read more

I continue to do more and more development within Microsoft Access 2007. I’m still learning the ropes on how to do stuff but there’s something we’ve come across that is an extreme annoyance and it seems like a pretty obvious fix and solution.

We are working on a variety of applications that consist of a number of data entry forms and displays. While troubleshooting the applications and adding features, sometimes you need to pop open the form in Access Design View and make some changes.
Because the form you’re working on is dependent on some of the other forms that are …read more

Junior Brain Trainer has been released for the Nintendo DS and I think it looks great!  I’ve really enjoyed games like Big Brain Academy and Brain Age and, while my older kids have also had fun, it wasn’t as great for my six-year-old.
This new game is designed with 6-11 year-olds in mind and includes a curriculum aimed at developing reading, writing, spelling and math skills.  The activities range from simple “fill in the gap” word games to more complex mathematical puzzles.

Players can engage in daily challenges and mini-games which I know will be appealing to smaller gamers.  I’ve read on …read more

So, yeah, I haven’t played Borderlands yet and I know you’ve got to be tired of hearing that because I’m tired of writing it.
How hard is it to rent a girl a freakin’ video game?
I have a sneaking suspicion that the game is going to end up under the Christmas tree – at least it better end up under the Christmas tree.
Then again, maybe it’s a good thing that I haven’t started playing yet since there appears to be some “issues”
I was reading through Game Informer’s website [if you haven’t been there in a while, they’ve redesigned it and it’s …read more

Coming to a UK store near you this Christmas is the Q2 Cube, an Internet radio player like no other. Instead of mashing buttons to change your settings, you physically flip the cube-shaped device onto a different side.

Here’s how it works. You set up your Q2 with four pre-selected Internet radio stations, and then to change from one to another, you turn the device onto one of four “live” faces. The fifth face manipulates the speaker — tilt the Q2 forward to turn up the volume, or tilt it backwards to turn it down.
The Q2 Cube was developed by Cambridge …read more

Is it just me or is there a resurgence of dinosaur interest all of a sudden?  Between Land of the Lost and even Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs it just seems like the world is growing tired of vampires and are checking out these other toothy creatures.
Jurassic: The Hunted was released this week and I’m not going to lie – these graphics look pretty cheesy to me but I can see how some people might enjoy playing this game.  I’m sure there are some suspenseful moments in the environment.

The game is available on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 …read more