College basketball has an ardent, rambunctious following, as the passion of student-athletes and loyalty of alumni come together in an exciting sport driven as much by raw emotion as talent. Converting not only the sport, but the surrounding environment, into video-game form is no small feat, but the team at 2K Sports has given it […]

Having wrapped up the single-player portion of the game last night, Call Of Duty 4 is essentially “cartoon Tom Clancy” and that unnerved me throughout the experience. While dressing up like a complex modern shooter, at its heart it is the same good vs. evil setpiece extravaganza that the series has always delivered. That simplistic […]

Bear with me.
Until Nintendo released the Wii, a product that obliterated long-standing notions of a “video-game demographic”, it had been generally subsisting on the strong sales of its first-party titles; instantly recognizable brand names that its ardent fans would scoop up without question or hesitation.
To a certain extent, Nintendo’s still doing this, as third-party releases […]

The PS3 is still looking for that platform defining title, and while many have tried and just slightly missed the mark, this holiday season is a retail battleground and Sony is pulling out one of its biggest development guns: Naughty Dog. Having defined the first two generations of PlayStation with Crash Bandicoot and Jak and […]

Making the first steps into a larger world, Electronic Arts released “Online Team Play” patches for NBA Live 08 and FIFA 08 for the Xbox 360, with the same coming for the PlayStation 3 later in November.
These patches allow 10 players to play in the same game simultaneously, each controlling a different player. This feature […]

Musing for a Thursday afternoon… after a long day and night with Call of Duty 4. Never before has the title for my column been more fitting.

Speaking of the top-flight title, I’m struck by the polish of it. The matchmaking system is best-in-class, allowing gamers to stay with their friends, play against randomly-assigned gamers and […]

Numbers: The last refuge of the fanboy… and corporate shills.
Pointlessly-numbered reviews are used to prop up arguments for and against certain games, and even sales numbers are used as cudgels in the battle for the hearts and minds of people who only care about validating their own opinions.
With that in mind, it seems that the […]

Having finally carved out enough time to complete the HALO 3 single player campaign, I am utterly conflicted. It’s the sticky issue of innovation: burdened with a generation-defining franchise, it’s no easy task to reinvent a 300 million dollar wheel. Does one mess with it’s roundness? I can’t resist the urge to damn Bungie […]

Sony’s strategy title is a perfect fit for the PSP
One of the best gaming experiences I’ve had in the last few years was with a game called Full Spectrum Warrior on the original Xbox. The squad-based military adventure provided something different for gamers; it looked like a “shooter”, but wasn’t anything like one. More real-time […]

While news broke that the recently-released patch for Electronic Arts’ NCAA Football 08 on the PlayStation 3 would not be released for the Xbox 360, 5WG has learned that the situation has changed since then, and a patch for the 360 might indeed be forthcoming.
Apparently, e-mails have been flying and discussions are currently being held […]