Recent content by Psydney

Yes, yes. My husband and I are among those 80%. We played to Inferno and just quit a couple of weeks ago. We didn't *want* to feel forced to use the AH - the loot pinata aspect of Diablo is what we've always enjoyed. But some of the champions and elites were so hard (vortex walling arcane...

Because to be genuinely sexist there'd have to be an actual attitude toward women rather than marketing monkeys waving red flags around to generate fake controversy and free publicity? Sexism? Of the puerile variety maybe. Cynicism? In abundance.

I'm guessing the fact that he was modding the consoles as a for-profit business had something to do with the decision to prosecute. That said, the case sounds like it's going to be a disaster: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/xbox-judge-riled/

I'm a woman and dragging my not-terribly-interested husband to it. But I'm not sure "loved the original in my late teens and want to see a CGI reverse-aged Jeff Bridges" is precisely the demographic Disney is interested in targeting...

Thank you for calling the protagonist a "grinning monkey thing." Maybe eventually that will cleanse the image from the reviewer who called it a teletubby :)

Neat! We'll have to check that out - thanks :) Our initial efforts at playing L4D with a couple of friends left us feeling like we were trailing in the wake of meerkats on meth, but maybe we should try again sometime...

Yes, please! My husband and I have sunk more hours than I care to admit into Borderlands because we like playing co-op shooters together and there just aren't that many options. We're still slogging our way through Left 4 Dead 2, but the AI makes it a bit of a frustrating duo experience.

The only thing that might be nice is games with gender choices in protagonists making that a little more obvious. I wouldn't have minded a trailer or two with a female version of Shepherd from Mass Effect, say. But if the marketing machines that try to target women continue doing it by adding...

Well it's, err, eight slightly different *kinds* of kobolds... :)

I think it's the creeping regulatory aspect that bothers people - me among them. Recent studies seem to suggest that the ESRB is a more effective informal regulatory body than the MPAA, but videogames are still repeatedly singled out for special legislative attention while movies slide under the...

My husband and I hosted a WoW guild party at our place in central California a few years back. People came from Los Angeles, the Bay Area and Calgary, Canada (one Canadian guildie who couldn't make it sent along an awesome cake with the guild logo). Some of us already knew each other irl, which...

That looks a lot like the style of sensor used in the biofeedback game/exercise Wild Divine - interesting that Nintendo got a patent for it. Graphical biofeedback exercises can be a surprising amount of fun - my husband and I had a party hijacked for the better part of the night while our...

Don't get me started on the stupid Fable meat-eating thing. Rescue slaves, eat tofu - it's all the same morally. Sheesh. I liked Mass Effect 2 for subtlety - the paragon/renegade continuum seemed to have more substance than the too-usual "save kitten or serve kitten in pie!" I always play...

WoW system requirements: - Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+ - ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or better Lego Universe system requirements: - Pentium 4 3.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+ - ATI Graphics Card Radeon X600 Series or Nvidia Graphics Card GeForce 6600...