Recent content by Dr. Wiley

I was particularly interested in the idea of game reviewer as someone who plays dozens of games a year to completion. Certainly, a good reviewer will be well versed in all the most recent games, but I don't agree that familiarity necessarily breeds good instincts. For me, the best reviewer is...

Just like comfort foods, there are definitely games that provide essential distractions/interactions in those stressful times that follow a breakup. I find that there's a lot of stressful situations though, not just those that are love related, in which I'll return to specific games. While I...

Yeah, that's the sense I got, so I guess I'm just going to have to wait around for AA4. Hotel Dusk does look pretty interesting though, and at this point I'll try anything on the DS once, if for no other reason than to sample the various gameplay options that designers are coming up with...

It's funny, because I agree with both CantFake and mrplaid. I bought the first Ace Attorney because I was interested in seeing what that style was all about. And I was really into it through the first three cases. But by the end of the third, I felt the game had been really drained of all it's...

I have yet to play any of these games, but I think it's hard to read this news as anything other than a huge coup for BK and even the XBox 360. It will be interesting to see which other companies jump on this sort of advertising/gaming bandwagon. Who's feeling a Taco Bell chihuahua game?

Pokemon really is a rare treasure of gaming that gets completely overlooked by the mainstream/hardcore/adult gaming media. To a large extent, that is only Nintendo's fault, and something I don't think the company really gives a crap about in the long run. They went after a demographic of gamers...

Obviously, the whole debate about defining a gamer and finding a respectable spokesman for gaming should be completely separate. Beyond that, I think Myan hits the real important aspect of Fletcher's original post squarely on the head. It's perhaps a little terrifying that everyone chose to...

This might sound a little crazy, but I think the virtual console is the single feature that I'm most excited about when it comes to the Wii. I mean, I know I can find most, if not all, of the old NES and Super NES game ROMs hiding around the web, but there's just something about sitting in front...

What is small minded about the idea put forth in Game Career Guide's piece is that it assumes a narrow idea of what a review or criticism can be. If we presuppose games as art, we can say that any good criticism or review of a game, just like any good piece of criticism of a book or film, should...

Pleasurable Genres "Genre is about economy." In "Pleasurable Genres," Jon Schnaars explores the ways in which the genre itself defines our expectations, and how survival/horror games give you more of what you need. Permalink

Nintendo's Power Before videogaming magazines were in wide publication, Nintendo started their own. Jon Schnaars looks at the history of Nintendo Power, and compares it to today's other popular "official" publications. Permalink