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You kids and your darn video games: Olympic president condemns digital entertainment
In a manner reminiscent of my parents’ pleas for me to “put down the controller and go outside”, Olympic president Jacques Rogge condemned digital entertainment in an interview with The Times, as part of an attempt to reach out to the next generation of Olympic viewers, participants, and administrators. Correct me if I’m wrong in [...]
Scratch on your DS with ProteinDS
Perhaps the next best music making application for the Nintendo DS since the guitar sim Jam Sessions and the quirky Electroplankton is a homebrew by the name of ProteinDS. It turns the user’s DS into a functional turntable. While it doesn’t exactly imitate the appearance of a physical turntable, it displays the audio clip scrolling [...]
GC Review: LostWinds
It cost me 1000 Wii Points, or 10 dollars to purchase LostWinds, a game that I had been eagerly awaiting. Upon recently completing it, the old adage “You get what you pay for…” comes to mind. This is not a bad thing. I have often paid 50 dollars for games that haven’t provided [...]
The potential triumphant return of Tecmo Bowl
When it comes to football games, Tecmo Bowl can be considered my first and only true love. Even today, if I were given a chance to play Tecmo Bowl or preview the new Madden NFL, I would choose Tecmo. In my opinion, it is more of a football game than Madden with respect to the [...]
Free MMORPG spotlight: NeoSteam
Being the frugal gamer that I am, I prefer my games to be as cheap as they come… free. I have scoured the Internet in search of exceptional pieces of freeware and I have noticed one trend. The overwhelming majority of these free games, good and bad, are MMORPGS. I enjoy this genre of games, [...]
Forecast: Lost Winds will blow you away
We here at Gaming Clarity don’t currently have the luxury of review copies, nor do we have the opportunity to play games before their respective release dates. Therefore, we have no more material to base our judgment on than the reader. We resort to various reviews and video of games scattered across the Internet. [...]
In this corner… the Wii balance board
It has been announced that the Nintendo Wii edition of Don King Presents: Prizefighter, due in September, is going to include support for the Wii Fit balance board. This is the first 3rd party title, to my knowledge, that plans to support the new accessory and I am optimistic about the direction they are [...]
Wii60: Weighing in on the Xbox 360 motion controller
When Nintendo first announced that their revolutionary new console would use motion controls, it garnered mixed speculation. Fanboys debated back and forth across the Internet whether or not motion controls were a viable opportunity for the future of gaming. Sony seemed to think so when, shortly after, they announced that the new PS3 would also [...]
Being Bourne: Bourne Conspiracy looks immersive
If there was one thing stood out in the “Bourne” films besides the engrossing plot, exotic locales and heart-racing car chases, it was the fight scenes. The latest trailer for Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy captures the same essence as the movies.
Although the character model does not resemble Matt Damon, everything else practically remains [...]
Cashing in on Guitar Hero? Battle of the Bands for Wii
In an unsurprising move, THQ Inc. has released screenshots and videos for a guitar hero-esque rhythm game called Battle of the Bands. Forgive me for being skeptical about this game, but third-party titles on Wii have often been nothing more than poor attempts at cashing in on the Wii’s novelty.
This one, at first glance, seems [...]
