5WG is pleased to present the following article, written by guest columnist Chris Sullivan.
***This is a week that gamers dream of, yet, a week that our wives and bank accounts fear most. I know I possibly couldn’t have been the only one scrounging around the house for any loose change this past week, leaving […]

NHL 08 includes all of the teams’ new RBK Edge Uniforms, but since not every team had unveiled them yet, they couldn’t be shown or used in-game.
Now, they can.
Designed of lighter materials and sporting more form-fitting cuts, every NHL team has made the switch and altered their uniform somewhat to fit the new style. So, […]

Since I’ve covered this game in complete detail here, here and here, I won’t belabor the point.
So I’ll simply say this: I wasn’t kidding - yes, it’s that good.
Only Sony’s MLB 07: The Show does a comparable job of relaying the nuance, strategy and excitement of the real-life sport it represents as well as NHL […]

A few things struck me this weekend after I had friends over to play games for an entire afternoon and evening.
These events - and to me, they are events - get much harder to arrange when you’re thirty-something with children; but if you believe the numbers, that’s the average gamer today. I don’t know where […]

Yes, I realize that’s an oxymoron in general, but this week, one of gaming’s best and brightest showed that it’s not always so.
Peter Moore, the new head of EA Sports, told Next Generation that he didn’t “come (to EA Sports) to just maintain the status quo and build the business five to seven percent a […]

I am not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
At least not anymore.
I have now joined the seeming majority with a dead Xbox 360. My 360 and I have had many a close call over our time together, with Red Rings Of Near-Death disappearing after a quick power cycle. This Monday night, however, I popped in HALO […]

The work week’s already half-over; thank you, Labor Day!

Sony Computer Entertainment America’s communications director, Dave Karraker, has left Sony to return to the liquor industry. Karraker, who held the role at Sony for roughly a year, will depart on Friday. Karraker told Kotaku that his time at Sony was “wild ride and an incredibly enriching […]

In our last episode, the release of Tiger Woods 08 completely annihilated the easportsworld.com servers, as Electronic Arts was unprepared to handle the number of gamers using the game’s most-touted feature.
In turn, the in-game, You Tube-like features of NCAA Football 08 and even the limited web-based interaction of Madden 08 were disrupted, and still aren’t […]