I received a copy of Dirt 3 for the Playstation 3 on Thursday of last week. Friday was a difficult and trying day at the office with my co-worker leaving for greener pastures in a taller building, so that evening I decided to imbibe a little while playing. Apparently the “Don’t Drink and Drive” motto should include rally racing games as well. Needless to say, the liquor went down quicker than... 

Today I found out something that destroyed my productivity at work: Angry Birds is now playable for free in the Google Chrome browser. For those of you who don’t know what Google Chrome is; think of Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Internet Exploder (yes, I wrote it that way on purpose). It’s another Windows-based internet browser, an alternative to the ones previously listed. The unique feature... 

Many ape-descended life-forms here in America who entitle themselves with the moniker of “Gamer” have minimal knowledge of a small development company by the name of CD Projekt based in Poland. CD Projekt originated in 1994 as a gaming company who translated games such as Baldur’s Gate and Icewind Dale to their native language and eventually became one of the biggest game and educational software... 

Hello all you fellow cheap-asses that refuse to pay full retail price for a new game and instead will wait the few months for a “Greatest Hits” or a used game to hit the shelf before picking up the latest and greatest games. This new weekly column here at Widescreen Warrior is dedicated to you. I’m a fellow cheap-ass and always look for the easiest way to get entertainment at the lowest cost... 

I have blisters on my thumbs as I write this. There once was a time where I was reprimanded by the officials at Cedar Point amusement park for scaring other people. I didn’t know I was scaring people; I was only playing a video game. Sometimes, I have a bit of a problem getting much too involved in games and movies more than I should. For example, my sister took me to see a movie called Arachnophobia... 

I’m going to let you in on a little known tidbit of information Hollywood has known for years: the further away from the source material you travel, the worse the end product ends up becoming. Obviously there are a few exceptions, however the sad pathetic failures clearly overshadow the few amazing winners. Case in point: Spider-man (2002 with Toby McGuire) was a great movie. However, how many... 

My first entry into the “Tactical Shooting Game” genre began on a home-built Windows 95 machine running on 8mb of memory and a super-fast Pentium 2 Slot 1 233 MHz chip. I picked up a copy of a game a few friends of mine were playing at a local game store called “Media Play,” which went out of business a handful of years ago. The game was none other than Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six. A game... 

I’m starting to think Valve is falling into the horrible area of named game developers such as Blizzard and Epic, who have a difficult time making bad games. You’ll have to forgive me, once you start playing Portal 2, you are instantly reminded of the sarcasm the GLaDOS computer AI brings to the game to make you feel like the computer is playing a bad joke on you. Maybe she is? I’m... 

Given the current state of Hollywood rebooting damn near everything, it doesn’t surprise me that, when Warner Brothers picked up the rights to develop a “new” Mortal Kombat game, it would be a reboot. A “reboot” in Hollywood terms is when a series needs to be updated to fix previous flaws or to bring a series up to current technological standards, i.e. lame 3D. I remember... 

I’m getting severely inundated with this “so-called” upcoming zombie apocalypse and the media surrounding said apocalypse. I’m also getting tired of playing games and watching movies about undead zombies, despite how thoroughly enjoyable they might actually be. It seems one could easily look anywhere and see a somewhat realistic portrayal of zombies invading our cities, even though modern...