Archive for August 2008

PS3 Releases: week of August 25, 2008

on the shelves 08/26: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 [metacrtic] – a tinkering update rather than any new big features. The big emphasis is on helping you improve by giving more feedback about your swing and post-round advice from Tiger’s swing coach. 08/26: Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice [metacrtic] – strategy RPG game that’s made [...]

PS3 Releases: week of August 18, 2008

on the shelves nothing! in the store Downloadable Games Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty [metacritic] {$15} – They missed on either the price or the length; it feels like a bonus level for Tools of Destruction, but maybe not enough to justify the price. (I’m only about 45 minutes, maybe I’ll change my [...]

PS3 Releases: week of June 9, 2008

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the Mole: 5×2

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the streak goes on

Timber Rattlers 8 – Cougars 7 (13) They were coming in with a five game winning streak, they came back from being down 4-0, being down 7-3 and it wasn’t until the 11th, with Larry Cobb was touching third and rushing for home while the centerfielder scooped the ball and threw towards home that I [...]

PS3 Releases: week of August 11, 2008

on the shelves 08/12: Madden NFL 09 and (20th Anniversary Edition) [metacritic] – I swear, it’s an actual improvement on the game. It’s definitely a step above the previous PS3 versions, especially in game presentation. There’s online leagues, though they’ don’t yet fulfill the promise of taking franchise mode online. It’s amusing multiple reviews note [...]

madden ’09 line

(I wrote this up last night, then got playing and forgot about it. I’m very bad at this game suddenly, so sad.) I was going to wait until tomorrow to write this (well, twelve or so hours, whatever tomorrow is), but it appears I have some time to kill here. Madden has an immediate 1.10update. [...]

the startling, scary truth

thru 118 team games, AVG/OBP/SLG (OPS) Player L: 269/369/399 (768) Player H: 277/313/482 (795) Player L can be quickly identified as the beloved Kosuke Fukodome. He’s still credited for walking 10% of the time, but it’s more like 7% in the last couple months. Who’s Player H?

i’m going to stand in line at midnight to get Madden ’09

So. I’m trying to convince myself that I’m doing this as people watching fun (standing in line, but ironically) and that Gamestop is so ridicously close, I might as well do it. Actually, Walmart is closer, but you’ve got to draw the line somewhere (and their cashers are so slow late at night.) I have [...]

PS3 Releases: week of August 4, 2008

on the shelves 08/07: Monster Madness: Grave Danger (metacritic) – port of the 360 title, with new features (and a new subtitle) but nothing that actually fixes some of the game playing problems of the first game, and the visuals are really bad. in the store Qore #3 ($3, or $25 for a yearly subscription) [...]