Whew! After a week on the road between Canada and the States, I’m finally back… and look what happened while I was gone: EA bought Pandemic and BioWare, NBA Live 08’s cover boy, Gilbert Arenas, got busted for cheating at Halo 3, and Sony’s now telling us that backwards compatibility isn’t important anymore after years […]

Between a bad head cold, rehearsals for a show opening next week, crushing work deadlines and a newly un-shrinkwrapped something sitting in my field of vision Scattershots is all you’re getting on this Mid-October Friday, my friends.

‘Twas HALO 2 which killed my 360. Thus, it was with great trepidation that I put the disc in […]

5WG is pleased to present the following article, written by guest columnist Chris Sullivan.
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Here we are, nearly 11 months after the Nintendo Wii’s official launch, and the console is still in short supply. Since its November 19, 2006 release, roughly 12 million Wii consoles have sold worldwide, with 5 million of those being purchased […]

Wasn’t it supposed to be easier than this?
My earliest gaming was on consoles like the Atari 2600, but a great portion of my misspent youth embraced the PC as my primary gaming platform. With that came a constant flux of hardware and their attendant drivers, config.sys and autoexec.bat files, and strategic applications of HIMEM. […]

I’m headed to lovely Vancouver this morning, to get a more in-depth look at FIFA 08 on Wednesday.
The game, designed to be both more realistic and playable then ever, promises to be one the best versions of the long-running series, and I’ll be discussing what’s new - and why - with the development team at […]

Yeah, this is pretty big news. The biggest game in the universe, Halo 3, is rolling along, racking up mind-bending sales numbers, and the company that made it - Bungie - has spiraled away from it’s owner, Microsoft, in what appears to be a re-purchase/stock-shifting deal.
While Microsoft still owns a minority share in Bungie, and […]

We don’t do “reviews” here at 5WG. At least, not as you probably know them. You won’t see any arbitrary “scores” or a laundry list of features regurgitated from a fact sheet - we know you can find that anywhere. Instead, we strive to bring you something different: not just if a game works or […]

Thoughts for a Tuesday afternoon:

Surprise, surprise - parents don’t know how to use parental controls. Why should technology be any different than real-life anyway? User Centric, a technology consulting firm, released results of its study of control systems, where “all participants were asked to set up parental controls using a television with a V-Chip, a […]

Remember the good old days… you know, a couple of years ago, when Sony’s Ken Kutaragi would provide industry writers with a never-ending supply of nonsensical ramblings? Heady with power granted to him by the world’s most popular console, Kutaragi appeared to go completely off the rails; spouting inane comments; constantly referring to things that […]