Gamespot.com recently published an excellent, well thought-out article suggesting changes that Sony could make to help the PlayStation3 become more palatable to more consumers.
I’ve certainly harped upon the PS3’s online concerns just like Jeff Gerstmann and Greg Mueller have since before the system even released; and the other higher-concept ideas discussed in the article all […]

Home, Sony’ new PS3 initiative, is seemingly the bastard child of Xbox Live and Second Life, but it just might work.
It’s impossible to truly judge anything like this so early - after all, it’s only been announced recently - but the concept is sound enough, with a few caveats.
I’m not going to pretend that I’m […]

I awoke last Thursday morning and made my way to my office, where I was rudely welcomed by the pungent tang of smoldering silicon and burned-out electrical contacts - never a good omen if you tend to use a computer virtually every waking hour.
So, with my PC having gone the way of the Bluesmobile, everything […]

Here’s hoping it’s more it’s more like The Highwaymen than Damn Yankees.
While 100-plus press releases slide across my monitor every day during the Game Developers’ Conference, this one caught my eye this morning:
EA, MTV and Harmonix announce first-ever strategic partnership at San Francisco press event
San Francisco, Calif. – March 7, 2007 – At an invite-only […]

Virtua Fighter 5, the venerable and popular fighting game series, was recently released to great fanfare for the PlayStation 3. Billed as something of a system-seller, the game’s dazzling graphics and complex game play seemed like a perfect fit for Sony’s powerhouse and was well-positioned to start making inroads with the PlayStation 3’s online promise […]

On Sunday, Microsoft announced that they’ll release a 512 MB memory card for the Xbox 360 and increase the size limit of Xbox Live Arcade games from 50 MB to 150 MB, as well.
This, of course, comes as no relief for many (and that’s not counting the makers of Lumines! Live, which could’ve avoided the […]

In this monthly feature, the 5WG Collective will take a look at upcoming games and highlight what we’re most looking forward to over the next 30 days. As always, release dates are subject to change.

In like a lion … out like a lamb, right? The lion part is sure right, with March seeing the PS3 […]