Steve Schardein

Sin and Punishment: Star Successor

All the elements of a classic shooter, refined, polished, and supercharged via the Wii interface.

Impressions – Kirby’s Epic Yarn

Straight out of nowhere, Nintendo elected to strengthen their case for franchise reinvention this E3 with the announcement of Kirby's Epic Yarn, a wonderfully inventive platforming title that breathes new life into a series which, while typically creative and enjoyable in its own right, hasn’t seen a lot of fresh action in the last few years. The result is what was certainly one of my favorite tit...[Read More]

Impressions – The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Have faith--because in spite of our time with the game this year, we still know oh so little.

Impressions – Mario Sports Mix

Today, we spent a pretty good amount of time with Square Enix’s newest Nintendo-published title, Mario Sports Mix. The game features four sports: Volleyball, Basketball, Hockey, and Dodgeball, the first two of which were on display at the show floor this year.

Conduit 2 – Full Impressions and tons of details

Chances are, if you’ve got a Wii and you’re reading our site, you’ve at least taken some interest in The Conduit. After all, the Wii’s pointer interface practically begs to be utilized for FPS control—even if the game falls short in certain important areas.

Nintendo Roundtable Summary

Just some rough notes, coming at you directly from the NOA Roundtable!

Ocarnia of Time 3D coming to Nintendo 3Ds

Just a quick note here straight from the Nintendo Roundtable private event...

Nintendo Media Briefing – Pseudo-live blog, with pictures

All, We're currently sitting here at the Nintendo media briefing, waiting for things to begin.  I will be updating it as things progress with pics, etc. :)

E3 over the years: What we’ve learned

So this E3 thing... it's pretty popular and stuff.  Having attended for well over a decade now (at various venues, prior to coalescing into the undisputed internet-dominating giant which is DigitalChumps), we thought we might take a quick glance back at some of the memories of years past, as well as reflect on what we learned from each of them.

Alienware TactX Mouse

What do you get when you cross a premium gaming PC brand with a top accessories manufacturer? A freaking sweet mouse, that’s what.

Alienware M11x Gaming Notebook PC

You can, in fact, have the best of both worlds.

Super Mario Galaxy 2: Currently tied for Best Game of All Time at GameRankings.com [UPDATED: It’s offical!]

Hello all,   Just a quick note to once again exalt the almighty Super Mario Galaxy 2.  I realize that this is already a fervent topic of conversation, but just take a look at the latest update of GameRankings’ reviews database:   http://www.gamerankings.com/browse.html   Yup–that’s Galaxy 2, currently tied with the front-runner Ocarina of Time (which has been ...[Read More]