Author: Michael O’Reilly

Well now that I’ve gotten my New Years Resolutions out of the way, I’ve moved on to getting a good start on at least one of them…actually buying games again. I don’t know if I can really use this as proof that I’m really doing it though, as I bought a PC game, and it’s…

Hey, welcome to 2006. I hope you each had yourselves a wonderful and or debauched New Years, whichever you go for. Who knows, maybe it was both. Me? I got to work. No not here, Widro may be a slave driver but he’s not a cruel heartless bastard. At my real life job. Ah well,…

As 2005 comes to a conclusion we get the chance to look back at the year that was and wonder: What the hell were the game company’s thinking? Did they collectively all get together and say screw it these pricks will buy anything? Or did they all say bah, the current generation is OLLLLLLLLD man,…

A few weeks back I wrote a column on the Nintendogging website that allows DS owners to use their DS wifi connections to find suitable mates using Nintendogs. Well, now it’s becoming apparent that Nintendo’s DS could become the most perverted console to ever hit the North American market. A designer at Ubisoft has figured…

So this past week has been a little bit newsworthy. Not much happened in the actual world of gaming, but certainly in the realm of politics and law, things have been happening. Firstly we have had our old nemesis reappear like a bad RPG. Yes, Joe Lieberman has once again stuck his nose into the…

Seeing as it’s the holiday season now, I’d like to start a tradition this year. I’ve got a public forum. So why not exploit it for good? Therefore I’d like to encourage you all to donate to the “Give O’Reilly a Present” fund. Afterall whats the point of having a column if I can’t whore…

So it seems I should have saved some of my comments for this week, as I once again find myself lacking for a topic. So it’s a hodge podge for you folks today. Of course the big story of the week is today’s launch of the Xbox 360. Microsoft hasn’t convinced me to get the…

Hi everyone. Before I get into the weekly rant, I feel the need to say goodbye to Eddie Guerrero. I’m not a writer for the wrestling side of the site, and I didn’t know him, no better than any other wrestling fan anyway. He entertained me for many years and for that he deserved my…

Hello all you little Cannoneers and welcome to another fun fact filled edition of the Pulse Cannon. Last week I told you about Toothing, Dogging and Nintendogging. At the time I thought they were a hoax. But a kind reader in England, Mathew Kenyon, wrote me telling me that dogging at least is very real,…

Well here inside the Inside Pulse secret underground headquarters, where I man the Pulse Cannon defending the base from the hordes of bad reviews, Halloween has just passed with plenty of little gouls and ghosts staying home it seems. I can’t understand why either. Maybe it was the Activision head on a stake in the…

So, the clock is ticking, and there is but a mere month before the next generation officially kicks off. Microsoft’s silver and green console is inching closer and closer to store shelves, and people are marking off the days one by one. So since it’s close, I figured I’d list all of the new features…

Hey again. I swear these things get here so fast I feel I just submitted last weeks column two minutes ago. Anyway, it seems my last column or two have stirred up some discussion, both in Senor Baxley’s Mid-Week Mid-Boss and in my dusty old emailbox. So, I guess I should start off by addressing…

Hello again. I being a damned Canadian, and it being hockey season, I figured now might be a good time to talk about how a determined effort might enable gamers to right some of the many wrongs that have gradually overtaken our once proud and magnificent industry. Now, I’m sure you’re wondering how I’m going…

Recently Best Buy announced that they will soon be accepting trade ins and selling used games, very much in the same way that EB and Gamestop have been doing. I for one can see nothing but bad things coming from this decision, if they choose to pursue it on a large scale. At the moment…

Cell phone based games. I don’t get them. I don’t know that I ever will. Oh sure, secretly the N-Gage kind of intrigued me, but they butchered that so badly in no way was I going to invest my money on something so sad and uninspired. And I’m not saying little puzzle games meant to…