The Great Geek Manual

This morning, I watched the video clip accompanying an ABC News story entitled “Mexico Drug War Hangs Over ‘Spring Break’“. The story covers the dangers of spring break now that a drug war is being waged across Mexico so near its popular Spring Break hot spots like Cancun.

…the things is, every since I saw the video, all I can think of is what an AWESOME video game that would make. Just think of it: A first-person shoot that casts players in the role of a camo-wearing, M-16-toting Mexican federale trying to root drug dealers out of the Cancun resort strip, avoiding ambushes, and doing your best not to kill the scantily-clad spring break chicks and other assorted drunken by-standers mobbing the beaches. It would kind of be a hybrid of Call of Duty and The Guy Game.

Yeah, I’m probably a horrible person for thinking how much fun the carnage of a Spring Break massacre would be… but who are you to judge? You be right in the middle of that line wrapped around Best Buy on release night if it were a real game.

Video Games

Call of Duty: World at War, Mirror’s Edge, and World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King will hit the shelves this week in rapid succession, leaving a good number of hardcore gamers at home with the twenty-hour flu.

Sunday, November 9

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 (DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, X360)

Monday, November 10

Avatar – The Last Airbender: Into the Inferno (DS)
Brain Challenge (Wii)
Call of Duty: World at War Final Fronts (PS2)
MLB Superstars (Wii)
Pony Friends: Mini Breeds Edition (DS)
Populous (DS)
The Three Stooges (PC)
Winx Club: Mission Echantrix (DS)
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Video Games

This week’s notable release is the Lego Batman: The Video Game, and, since the first LEGO Star Wars turned out to be so playable for adults as well as kids, it’s also probably the hottest pick of the week.

Monday, September 22

Baja: Edge of Control (PS3, X360)
An off road racing game.

Brain Quest Grades 3 & 4 (DS)

de Blob (Wii)
Bounce, ricochet, and swing through Chroma City as you, de Blob, try to restore the world’s drained color.

Di-Gata Defenders (DS)

DropCast (DS)

Hell’s Kitchen (PC)
Based on the popular television series. Read the rest of this entry » » »

Video Games

Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore. Spore… Did anyone else notice that they’ve released Spore this week? You would have to Amish not to have noticed. Someone ought to develop a new simulation game where players manage a video game marketing department, then have to escape from the enraged customers they deceived with their slick advertising.

Sunday, September 7

Spore (Mac, PC)
A simulation game created by Will Wright that allows players to control various life forms from the cellular to the galactic level.

Spore Creatures DS (DS)
A simulation game created by Will Wright that allows players to control various life forms from the cellular to the galactic level.

Spore Galactic Edition (Mac, PC)
A simulation game created by Will Wright that allows players to control various life forms from the cellular to the galactic level.
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Video Games

It’s a good week in gaming! We’ve got a wide variety of games coming out, and while there isn’t any one that stands out as a must-have, just about every genre under the sun is represented: action, puzzle, racing, shooters, and vampire hunting. Plus, the newest PlayStation 3 80GB system ($399) is available.

Monday, August 25th

MLB Power Pros 2008 (DS)
Mario Super Sluggers (Wii)

Tuesday, August 26th

Digimon World Championship (DS)
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice (PS3)
DT Racer Refueled (PS2)
Falling Stars (PS2)
Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli (DS, PS2, PS3, Wii)
From The Abyss (DS)
GTR Evolution (PC)
Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness (DS)
Kidz Sports: Crazy Golf (Wii)
N+ (DS, PSP)
Pajama Sam in Don’t Fear the Dark (Wii)
PictoImage (DS)
Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk (Wii)
The Sims 2 Apartment Life (PC)
The Sims 2 Apartment Pets (DS)
Spy Fox in Dry Cereal (Wii)
Tales of Vesperia (X360)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 (PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, X360)
Vampire Rain: Altered Species (PS3)

Wednesday, August 27th

Castle Crashers (XBLA)

Friday, August 29th

Garfield’s Fun Fest (DS)
Infinite Undiscovery (X360)
Prison Tycoon 4: SuperMax (PC)
Sid Meier’s Pirates! (Mac)
The Sims 2 Apartment Life (PC)

Saturday (Aug. 30)

FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage (PC)
Ford Racing: Off Road (Wii)
James Pond – Codename Robocod (DS)
MindHabits (Mac)
OPERATION Mania (PC)

If you know of any major releases that I missed, mention it below.

Monday, August 11

Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 1: Homestar Runner (PC download, Wiiware)
The animated series Homestar Runner comes to games.

Tuesday, August 12

Bangai-O Spirits (DS)
Ab arcade-style shooter from Japan.

Dracula 3: Path of the Dragon (PC)
As investigators attempt to piece together the life of a man being considered for Sainthood, a mysterious world of Vampires emerges.

Imagine Teacher (DS)
A new type of simulator which casts players as a teacher in a high school.

Line Rider 2: Unbound (DS, PC, Wii)

Madden NFL 09 All-Play (Wii)
The popular football simulation franchise returns.

Madden NFL 09 (DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, X360, Xbox)
The popular football simulation franchise returns.

N+ (PSP)
An arcade platform game.

Sinking Island (PC)
An interactive murder mystery which casts players as PI Jack Norm.

Space Siege (PC)
Save the human race in this sci-fi action roleplaying game.

Wednesday, August 13

Bionic Commando Rearmed (XBLA)

Fable II Pub Games (XBLA)
Casino-style games for the Xbox Live Arcade.

Thursday, August 14

Bionic Commando Rearmed (PC, PS3)

Friday, August 15

Baseball Mogul 2009 (PC)
Manage a baseball franchise.

Ford Racing: Off Road (PC)

If you know of any major releases that I missed, mention it below.

Monday, August 4

King of Clubs (Wii)
A mini-golf game with a twist, set in an abandoned Nevada park.

Tuesday, August 5

B-Boy (PS2)
Hip-hop dance game featuring competition against real-worlds stars Crazy Legs, Kamel, and Mouse.

Beijing 2008 – The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games (PC)
Compete in a series of over thirty-five Olympic events.

The Cheetah Girls: Passport to Stardom (DS)
A “music adventure game” that follows the upcoming Disney Channel Original Movie, “The Cheetah Girls”.

Crash Time (X360)
An arcade-style racing game

GRID (DS)
A racing game that tests players’ driving skills in a series of competitions around the globe. Read the rest of this entry » » »

Video Games

This week, the fourth installment in the weapons-based 3D fighting series Soul Caliber hist the shelves for both the PS3 and the Xbox 360. To the joy of fans everywhere, this will installment will allowing online matches against other players for the first time. And, as if that weren’t enough, the icing on the cake is the inclusion of three Star Wars character: Darth Vader, Vader’s apprentice from The Force Unleashed, and Yoda.

That alone would make this a good week for gamers, but Soul Caliber won’t be the only game dropping this week.

Tuesday, July 29th

Art of Murder: FBI Confidential (PC)
A point-and-click murder mystery that cast player in the role of an FBI agent.

City Life 2008 Edition (PC)
Another city-building sim featuring new graphics, maps, and more.

Enigma 7 (PC)
Rave to save you girlfriend, completing a series of challenges in the magical world of Enigma 7 along the way.

Everlight (PC)
A fantasy game with a intricate plot in which players must accomplish a series of quests in over thirty locations.

Ford Racing Off Road (PS2, PSP, Wii)
Choose from an array of Ford trucks and a series of rugged off-road track in this racing game. Read the rest of this entry » » »