Control Freak - Video Games

A Football and a Governor…

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:09:19 PDT

Gov. Charlie Crist Stops By EA Tiburon – “I love college football. I wasn't ever very good. The guy on the screen was good...You're very generous.” Gov. Charlie Crist humbly said during his short stop by our local EA Tiburon...

Worms Hits the iPhone

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:05:36 PDT

The portable genre is made for Team17's Worms games. They have been around on the PC for years [and more recently on the Xbox 360 and PS3] and have been a first love of mine. Now for only $5 you...

GameStop to host Midnight Launch Events for NCAA Football 10

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:37:59 PDT

Thinking about purchasing NCAA Football 10 tonight? At multiple local Central Florida locations GameStop [Stop seducing me you temptatious succubus!] GameStop will be holding midnight launch parties with contests to win a free T-shirt or Xbox 360 faceplate. There will...

Save $$$ at GameStop: Thousands of games for less than $20

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:16:19 PDT

Until August 2nd, GameStop is having a huge game sale with many popular [and some crud] titles going for $20 or less. GameStop is like that seductive succubus of gaming. We both hate it and desire to be within its...

[Update] Xbox 360's XBLA Summer Of Arcade: Dates & Prices

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:05:43 PDT

[Update: The dates have changed] Microsoft is kicking off its second annual Summer of Arcade starting this month. What no loud piercing "Wooo?"..I guess I agree with you. Summer of Arcade '09 does not seem to have the "I must...

Netflix comes to some Sony Bravia TVs - Comment from my PS3: 'WTF?'

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:41:09 PDT

Netflix announced a new partnership with Sony to bring Netflix's streaming selection to... internet-enabled Bravia TVs... yep, not the PlayStation 3. This isn't a huge deal for anyone who already has an Xbox 360 (w/ gold Xbox Live account), but...

BioWare drops some Mandalorian knowledge on the 'verse

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:20:55 PDT

Fellow geeks, take a moment out of your day to learn a bit more about the Mandalorian race in the Star Wars universe thanks to BioWare's Star Wars: Old Republic: Anyone else get a '300' vibe from that?

Guitar Hero 5 partial track list revealed

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:05:40 PDT

Some decent stuff here, and a few... questionable choices, take a look: Band Of Horses - "Cigarettes, Wedding Bands" Beastie Boys - "Gratitude" Beck - "Gamma Ray" Billy Squier - "Lonely Is The Night" Blur - "Song 2" Bob Dylan...

Classic Lucasarts goodness comes to Steam

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:00:32 PDT

Classic Lucasarts games > many new games. There are a few gems making their way on to Steam this week, but the best news is more classics are on the way. Prices range from $5 for the older classics, to...

Michael Jackson's death won't affect release of Rock Band Beatles

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:47:47 PDT

As some of you may know, MJ still owned 50 percent of the publishing rights to most of the Beatles catalog. Apparently some people - between their fits of crying and dancing to Thriller - wondered if the King of...

Max Payne 3 bullet-time action brings him to...Brazil?

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:52:28 PDT

The Max Payne series has been one of my favorite 3rd person shooting games to date. A combination of great storytelling and bullet-time [slow motion] gameplay gave a visceral, fun experience to those who sat through its drug fueled missions....

Deals: Amazon Deal of the Day is PS3 Games A Plenty

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:24:53 PDT

It's that time again - Cheap deals on Amazon. This time it's all PS3. Essentially they select a series of games, hardware or accessories and give really good deals on the items for a very limited time. Big deal of...

Spore + Robot Chicken - Screenshots

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:32:54 PDT

See below and after the jump for some screenshots of the Spore Galactic Adventures Robot Chicken episodes. SPORE GALACTIC ADVENTURES GOES TO THE (ROBOT) CHICKENS Maxis Teams with Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken Writers to Create Hysterical Adventures for Spore Galactic...

Spore + Robot Chicken = Poop Jokes, Pig Weddings and more...

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:28:37 PDT

Spore Galactic Adventures (SGA) is the upcoming expansion to the "universe in a box" game that was the original Spore. Spore took you from a single cell organism to the epitome of life itself - capturing aliens and probing them...

See the extended God of War III E3'09 Demo

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:44:46 PDT

Check out the video below for an extended look at the God of War III demo we saw at E3'09. You can see some of the new features in the game such as the ability to use enemies to solve...