The Gamers’ Temple Oracle

If you’re ever tried to search for a download on Xbox Live then you know that the interface makes it time-consuming and difficult to find what you’re looking for. The interface has been long overdue for an overhaul, so there was little surprise at E3 in July when Microsoft announced that it was also […]

How come every time there is a crisis in a fantasy kingdom the people turn to some kid wearing a loincloth and carrying a butter knife? Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? And yet that’s the way just about every RPG ever made begins. Does anyone out there fantasize about being a knight so […]

While many gamers may be dreaming of unwrapping a new copy of Guitar Hero III or Call of Duty 4 this holiday season, the corporate guys at Vivendi inadvertently revealed that Guitar Hero IV and Call of Duty 5 are in the works. In the flurry of activity surrounding this weekend’s surprise revelation that […]

Manhunt 2 was in the news again last week. Rockstar resubmitted the game to the ESRB and was successful in getting the game’s rating changed from AO (Adults Only) to M (Recommended for ages 17 and older). There was of course some controversy over this new ruling, particularly since the ESRB does not […]

Here’s an interesting bit of news that was released today - Bret Michaels, the lead singer from Poison, will appear in Guitar Hero III. When you play the Poison song “Talk Dirty to Me”, Michaels will appear in your band as the lead singer. However if you look carefully at the news release […]

There are a couple of cool tracks in the latest set of tracks announced for Guitar Hero III, but there are others I’m not so sure about:
· Miss Murder (by AFI)
· Through Fire and Flames (by Dragonforce)
· Number of the Beast (by Iron Maiden)
· […]

Here, in no particular order, are some of the games that I’m really looking forward to playing after seeing them at E3:
Guitar Hero III
Rock Band
Fallout 3
Call of Duty 4
Unreal Tournament 3
Army of Two
The Simpsons Game
Bioshock
The Orange Box
Mass Effect
LittleBigPlanet
Tabula Rasa
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Killzone 2
Timeshift

About the only thing noticeably different about the E3 press conferences for the three console manuafactures this year was that the audiences were about a third of the size as those of prior years. Otherwise it would be pretty hard to differentiate them from conferences past…
Off-site locations? Check.
Charts and graphs demonstrating market leadership? […]

This week marks the debut of the “new and improved” E3. If you missed all of the controversy last year, in short some of the larger game publishers announced after last year’s show that they would no longer support E3. According to them, the problem was that the show had become too loud, […]

Did you know that Dead or Alive 4 is available on the PC? And that it is an E-rated game? Neither did I, but according to the website for the new Championship Gaming Series pro gaming league it’s one of the games that they’re using. They’re also using the non-existent Project Gotham […]