The quality of the Dragon Age series has been hotly debated around the MiddleEAsy offices. I am a big fan of it’s gritty take on the Tolkien-esque cookie cutter fantasy worlds. Zeus is not a fan, he’s more of a sci-fi Mass Effect guy. We all love Bioware here at MiddleEAsy, don’t get me wrong.
My god has it really been a dozen years since a console Road Rash? Sure we got the crappy Game Boy Advance port in 2003, but no one played that. Yep, we have seen the twin towers fall, 3 different presidents and 14 different iterations of the Call of Duty franchise (and CoD has only
The year was 2000. The Y2k scare was behind us and we were alive and ready for the next generation of gaming. The Dreamcast made a decent splash the previous year, but it wasn’t until October of 2000 when the PS2 with it’s DVD playback capabilities took the gaming world by storm. The launch titles
If you don’t know about Littlest Pet Shop by now, you are not nearly as hip as I took you for. Let me fill you in on one of the best kids games out on the market right now for the Wii, DS and PC. Starring a huge cast of adorable wide eyed animals, not
Personally, baseball season just denotes a period of time in which I have to act interested when lukewarm and melodramatic MLB plays dominate ESPN Sportcenter’s Top Ten list every night. Look, catching a small ball in a large field is impressive, but it pales in comparison to a tomahawk slam over three defendser in the
Normally EA would just name an athlete (or two) to the cover of Madden every year, and you would avoid that player like the plague by the time your fantasy football draft rolled around. Not this time. If you haven’t heard, EA has set up a tournament to determine the next coverboy for EA’s flagship
The Cryengine was developed back in 2003 as a way to make every PC game player upgrade their computers to NASA like power. Originally used as a benchmarking tool for Nvidia, the Cryengine was so fascinating Ubisoft decided to make Far Cry out of it. Skip ahead 4 years and Cryengine 2 was released to
This is breaking: Microsoft has officially purchased the rights to the Tiger Woods golf franchise and it will now becoming out exclusively for the XBOX 360 and Windows machines. Bummer. No more Links for you PS3 or Wii owners. We have been able to track down some exclusive footage due to our inside sources and
In a Utopian world, I would have already played the new downloadable content released by Bioware for Mass Effect 2. However, this week I’ve been entirely too preoccupied with — ah, who am I kidding. I’m still trying to follow my wild pursuit of having intercourse with every female squad member on board the Normandy.
Interesting. It looks like EA Sports will be handling concussions in Madden differently in the 2012 edition. No longer can you get your QB sacked 9 times by the blindside DE and expect him to be unaffected by the repeated crushing blows to their head. Your dude has a concussion because your left tackle sucks
With the eminent release of one of the most anticipated shooters not named Halo or Call of Duty rapidly approaching, Battlefield developer Dice and EA have released a yet another reason for us to find some sort of sleeping potion so we can slumber the next 7 months away until Battlefield 3 is upon us.
It’s time to start thinking in portals again, Gabe Newell and Valve are back with yet another game that is not titled Half Life 2 episode 3. Granted we are still in the Half Life universe and who knows what easter eggs Valve has up their sleeve for their puzzler sequel, but I guess I
My fear of prison has been nullified since the documentary on the Bluth family in the early 2000’s. When the cameras followed George Bluth during his stint in LA County for ‘light treason’, I expected to see the worst mankind had to offer. I was wrong. Now everyone knows the secret of prison: it’s totally
If the creation of an MMA themed smartphone doesn’t confirm the popularity of our favorite liver punching and heel hooking sport, I’m not sure what else can be done to convince the nonbelievers. At least we know Metro PCS believes it and they are showing their support with their release of the first ever MMA based
Fifty dollars per minute equals out to about $3000 per hour and $24,000 for an average eight hour work day. Multiply that by five work days in a week and you get $120,000 per week. That is an insanely awesome amount of cash to earn in just one work week. I hate talking on the phone but for
Watching The Reem makes you cooler. This is the truth and there is very little you can do about it. If you are socially awkward, or inept at talking to the opposite sex (or same sex, not that there is anything wrong with that) just watch the collected episodes of The Reem and you will