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Archive for November, 2006



Gamespot deploys all-360 advertising for their PS3 subsection

Posted by inpheaux on November 30th, 2006 at 6:59 pm

Sometimes these things just write themselves.
Today, Gamespot unveiled a new overbearing gigantic ad-filled version of one of their pages. This is nothing new, and isn't the punchline. Most of us remember the glory that was McIGN, but I feel this goes a step (or seventeen) too far.
The page in question was their PS3 [...]

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Downtime & Review updates

Posted by inpheaux on November 27th, 2006 at 11:19 pm

Hey, we had some downtime. Our wonderful hosts got excited and decided they needed to pull our interweb plug for 24 hours and not tell me why, and then when they told me why they refused to let me back on. We're better now. We have come to terms.
Also, now that we're back up, we've [...]

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Those reviews I promised

Posted by inpheaux on November 19th, 2006 at 2:10 am

Or some of them, at least.
I'm sorry that this is going to be a rather terse update, but I only have however long it takes for my Wii to update itself before I am compelled to begin pouring hours upon hours of my life into it. So here goes, five new reviews:
Sam & Max (Season [...]

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Gamestop finds a few more PS3s

Posted by inpheaux on November 17th, 2006 at 7:08 am

After all the shenanigans of the week, from PS3 lines getting hit by bb-gun drivebys, to Gamestop announcing that whoops they can't fill all their preorders, to lines being filled with homeless people paid to be there, to Gamestops being held-up at gunpoint just to clean out their four whole PS3s, Gamestop has somehow managed [...]

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