Here at Beyond Reviews, we are most definitely a partisan blog.
We are unabashedly pro-Fallout 3 and really, by extension, pro-apocalypse.
So more time in the Capital Wasteland is extremely welcome news!
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Iron Fist confirmed for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Luke Cage is already confirmed, which makes this news even cooler to any right-thinking individual.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Coming to you live from their fortified bunker in the middle of the DC hellhole
The site was down for a bit but the March 31st edition of the Giant Bombcast is now up.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Fallout 3 wins Game Critics 2008 Game of the Year
Beating out some great competition, a panel of judges that reads like a who's who of technology and game writers named Fallout 3 their game of the year.
Given that it's my game of 2008, I consider this a good choice!
The order of finish for the finalists was:
1. Fallout 3
2. Left 4 Dead
3. Metal Gear Solid 4
4. Grand Theft Auto IV
5. Little Big Planet
6. Gears of War 2
7. Fable II
8. Rock Band 2
9. Dead Space
10. Braid
Read more about each game here.
Given that it's my game of 2008, I consider this a good choice!
The order of finish for the finalists was:
1. Fallout 3
2. Left 4 Dead
3. Metal Gear Solid 4
4. Grand Theft Auto IV
5. Little Big Planet
6. Gears of War 2
7. Fable II
8. Rock Band 2
9. Dead Space
10. Braid
Read more about each game here.
Gamespot
There was a time when I was an enormous Gamespot fanboy. I was a paid subscriber to the site, participated in weird corporate "offers" that they sent my way, attended online events live via video, the whole nine yards.
Yesterday, I cancelled my subscription to the Hotspot podcast, my last actual recurring tie to the site.
It sounds silly, but it felt weird to me. I had really invested in the site. I'm not speaking of monetarily so much as my time and affection. I was a fan.
Since that time, Carrie Gouskos, Greg Kasavin, Rich Gallup, Jeff Gerstmann, Ryan Davis, Vinnie Caravella, Brad Shoemaker, Alex Navarro and Jason Ocampo have all left the site.
Some of them left because they great opportunites, many left because of the clusterf$%k that was the Gertsmann firing but overtime the site became less of the great personalities and reviewers that I read, listened and tuned in live to see.
I can read console reviews of Jeff, Ryan, Vinnie and Brad at Giant Bomb and I can read Jason Ocampo's PC reviews at IGN. And for reviews those folks don't cover, I find myself scanning metacritic and picking reviews at random that catch my eye.
There was a time when I went straight to Gamespot and nowhere else.
And then the podcast. Somewhere along the way the Hotpost just became completely un-listenable to me. Unlike the reviewer exodus, that was a gradual thing but it just seemed like the podcast became less and less interesting to me.
Of course, I'm a little more on the fringe of gaming these days- which might not help. But mostly, I find the Giant Bombcast much more entertaining. It's *funny*.
Yesterday, I cancelled my subscription to the Hotspot podcast, my last actual recurring tie to the site.
It sounds silly, but it felt weird to me. I had really invested in the site. I'm not speaking of monetarily so much as my time and affection. I was a fan.
Since that time, Carrie Gouskos, Greg Kasavin, Rich Gallup, Jeff Gerstmann, Ryan Davis, Vinnie Caravella, Brad Shoemaker, Alex Navarro and Jason Ocampo have all left the site.
Some of them left because they great opportunites, many left because of the clusterf$%k that was the Gertsmann firing but overtime the site became less of the great personalities and reviewers that I read, listened and tuned in live to see.
I can read console reviews of Jeff, Ryan, Vinnie and Brad at Giant Bomb and I can read Jason Ocampo's PC reviews at IGN. And for reviews those folks don't cover, I find myself scanning metacritic and picking reviews at random that catch my eye.
There was a time when I went straight to Gamespot and nowhere else.
And then the podcast. Somewhere along the way the Hotpost just became completely un-listenable to me. Unlike the reviewer exodus, that was a gradual thing but it just seemed like the podcast became less and less interesting to me.
Of course, I'm a little more on the fringe of gaming these days- which might not help. But mostly, I find the Giant Bombcast much more entertaining. It's *funny*.
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