There’s been a glut of introspective, tangentially gamey moping around the site lately. Allow me to pile on! As a newspaperman, I’m not destined for great wealth, but because I have no dependents, my salary is enough to cover a few luxuries. A paper snapped me up straight out of college, and for a while, I made enough to live and buy anything I needed...

I missed Mario. Sure, there’s been a great Mario game on each of Nintendo’s last three consoles, but it’s just not the same when he’s in three dimensions. Mario is the one character that I don’t want to see punching bad guys in the face. NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII gives me the chance to stomp on goombas again. Not much has changed....

In the past two weeks I’ve been playing a lot of Dragon Age and a bit of Borderlands. But mostly Dragon Age. Cause it’s pretty great, and I hear there be dragons. BORDERLANDS Ben and I did the first co-op lap around Borderlands. For a while he had a pair of game-unbalancing revolvers, and I’d have one kill for every three or four of his. But things...

This week felt a lot like 1996. There’s been lots of colored loot, lots of mouse clicking and lots of time spent pouring over skill trees. BORDERLANDS My mild fury at having to wait a week for a copy of Borderlands where you can actually aim was tempered a bit by knowing that everybody toiling on the console versions got bug-ridden copies of the game. Sure, my...

Watch out! The dead have risen and are headed for the kingdom. The good news: A wizard, thief and knight are prepared to stop it. True, they’ve been fused together by this thing called the Trine, but the wizard, Amadeus, suspects the two things might be linked. TRINE is a 2-D sidescroller set in a 3-D universe with realistic physics, meaning when a rope is...

I suppose I should devote my first few words to the origins of my gaming fetish. I have a thing for PCs. They’re my constant. I spend all of work on a keyboard and, aside from time with the band and the girl, I’m on a different colored keyboard at home. It started with my dad, who conducted occasional marathon Kingmaker sessions with college friends until...