Category: Columns

I’m starting this one on early, Thursday to be precise, so I can be sure to get it jam-packed full of goodies! Sorry to those of you who didn’t like my little vacation synopsis from last week. I guess I went a little overboard and didn’t realize that it would be so damn long. As…

Please allow me to introduce myself. The name’s Alex Williams, not to be confused with Alex Lucard of Retrograding fame. You may have read some of my game reviews that have appeared on the site. You may not have. You may have skimmed over my additions to Lucard’s recent Retrograding columns, thus confusing our identities…

411 Games Rumor Down-Lo 07.01.03 411 Games Quote of The Week A definite buy for Sonic fans, and a good rent for the nay-sayers; if only to prove to them that Sonic still has fun games to play, and more in store. — Alex Williams (Review: Sonic Adventure DX Director’s Cut – GC) (411 DOWN-LO…

$1,850.00. One thousand, eight hundred and fifty dollars. Here, let me type that fragment again: One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Fifty Dollars. Now, if you’re like me, there are probably hundreds of ways that this money can be spent. I could purchase fleet of used 1989 Hatchback Geo Metros, and live my own personal thug…

Hello again, and welcome back to the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report, the greatest news report in the entire world. Thanks for stopping by. Unlike Lee, I don’t have any crazy reports on how my weekend was. However, I did lose $80 in Atlantic City on Monday. That sucked, especially when you consider that…

Preview: Sonic Heroes (All) Platforms: PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system Xbox® video game system from Microsoft Nintendo GameCubeTM Category: Action Platform Developer: SonicTeamTM, LTD / Sega® Ship: North America: Q1 2004 Europe: Q1 2004 Japan: Q4 2003 Yuji Naka, head of Sega’s Sonic Team, was recently interviewed by Eurogamer where he answered a few questions concerning…

Ok people, I have to apologize in advance. No, this won’t be a bad column, but it will definitely be different. Usually, when I write a column, I have some things in mind and do a little bit of planning. Well, this one is all spur of the moment stuff. Well, except for the review…

411 Games Rumor Down-Lo 06.24.03 411 Games Quote of The Week Now I’m probably not the best person to discuss a Star Wars game. I don’t know my Obi Wan Kunobi’s from my Luke Skywalkers, or my Chewbaccas from my Captain Picards, however I am the best person to tell you whether a game is…

DISCLAIMER! Alex and Adam sat down to do a fun interview. This is two guys having fun and making at least two jokes towards British Pop Culture that most non-Brit’s won’t get. Alex is not warning that if you are looking for an in-depth discussion on visual basic, depth into either Adam or Alex’s soul,…

Retrograding Mailbag Tagline: The more mail I get, the more of these I have to do. Allright. Lots of emails about the last few columns. All except 1 positive, but that’s because Alex actually did do a pretty big f*ck up, so I’m going to my first ever retraction here as I jabbed EA pretty…

Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report. Hope this past week has been kind to you all. A huge THANK YOU to Mike Zablow for taking my hours today so that I don’t have to work. Everyone can feel free to IM YankFreak9 and leave anti-Yankee/pro-Mets/pro-Red Sox…

Ok people, I have to apologize in advance. No, this won’t be a bad column, but it will definitely be different. Usually, when I write a column, I have some things in mind and do a little bit of planning. Well, this one is all spur of the moment stuff. Well, except for the review…

A common phrase found in every motivational quote book ever written is “If you live life the right way, once is enough”. In other words, do things right and there’s no need to take another stab at them. Now, apply this line of thinking to the arts, and you’ll see that nobody thinks this way.…

411 Games Rumor Down-Lo 06.17.03 *Backstage at 411 Games Headquarters, Bebito Jackson paces back and forth in his own Green Room. His head is down, his eyes are closed, and he looks unusually worried. The Down-Lo would be starting in just a few moments and Bebito just didn’t seem mentally prepared for it. Knowing that…

Man, five columns in one week! It’s like old times isn’t people. And force I’m guessing Chris is happy I’m churning out so much! This has been a busy week for me, doing Advance, mailbag and this column, but what’s bigger is Alex has yet another big interview lined up. Remember how much you guys…

Okay. Right off the bat, no mail before the first of June. And most of it’s just praise and ego boost mails. I think everyone was just glad to have me back. But I miss the long winded emails waxing about everything from how much Cthulhu rules to asking me if I’m a crazy Japanese…

Welcome! You’ve stumbled upon the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report. Here, you’ll find a ton of gaming news, and some extra goodies on the side. Enjoy! Last week, I said something about a more imaginative opening. Well, I forgot what I was getting at, so you get the generic crap again. Sorry about that.…

Welcome back to the greatest news report on Earth! Well, besides those that are actually good. I’m kidding, I feel good about all my news reports, but this week was pretty hectic so this report isn’t as chock full of goodness as last week’s was. And it has to happen the week that Alex Lucard…