This is basically revenge for being brainwashed into liking Pokemon back in October of 2006.

Wherein I get arrested for underage drinking and Bob Saget teaches me a life lesson. Or not.

If I may have a moment of your time, I’d like to start this week off with what can politely be described as an inflammatory comment: any gaming website that derided Oneechanbara and Rumble Roses XX as masturbatory pap that devalued women that, in the past week, gave Bayonetta top honors is staffed to the [...]

Wherein we reflect on the year, and the bad games played during it.

Wherein we make fun of Deadly Towers, and I make fun of Amy Lee and reference The Odyssey in a less than wholesome fashion.

Wherein we dissect Evil Dead: Hail to the King, and I wax poetic about Bruce Campbell’s acting career. Yup.

Well, that didn’t take long, did it? What was it, a whole two months before I fell off the wagon? I’m SO awesome.
So, I’m lacking in the promised content yet again, mostly because I haven’t had the time to acquire a copy of Evil Dead: Hail to the King, and I refuse to play any [...]

I didn’t have a chance to write about anything bad, so have some filler. Spoilers are contained herein, so, uh, if you don’t want to be spoiled, see you in two weeks.

Wherein we make fun of Aquaman, seen here crying about how bad his game is.

I love that picture so much.

So we’re still on schedule. I’m very pleased about this. I hope you are too.
I also hope you all like the new top image. Big thanks to J. Rose for cobbling the new image together for me at 2AM after the site design magically changed an hour after the column went live.
Sigh.
In all seriousness, though, [...]

Wherein we mock Slaughter Sport and I explain the process a bit more in-depth. And beg for more horrible games to play.

A REINTRODUCTION:
As the guy who used to write “Playing the Lame”, you probably went through some atrocious titles. What is the absolute worst game you have ever played? – Guy Desmarais.
You say “used to” like I stopped. I prefer to think of it as, “a hiatus of indeterminate length”. – Me, in response.

PRESENTS: “It doesn’t just happen in the movies”.
AKA
“Ten inferior sequels to awesome games”.
I’m bored, so this is what you get.

PRESENTS: “Of Braids and Nickle-and-Diming.”
AKA
“Shove your five dollars up your stupid ass.”

PRESENTS:
“The Real Battle of the Bands”
AKA
“An Open Letter to Everyone Associated With Group Music Games”
Here be profanity. That’s all the warning you get.

PRESENTS:
“The world is poorer for the loss.”
AKA
“Ten licensed games we’ll never see again.”

PRESENTS:
“Gender Representation in the Media of Video Games, Part 1.”
AKA
“The world doesn’t need any more Barbie games, thank you.”
Special thanks to the lovely ladies (all one of them) on the staff who inspired me to do this thing. This is your fault.
It’s time for one of our favorite words here at PtL: the “C” [...]

PRESENTS:
“The only thing worse than a fanboy is a paid shill.”
AKA
“This is why we can’t have nice things.”
You know, as much as we here at DGHF use the term in a disparaging fashion, there’s a certain amount of appreciation one has to have for a fanboy or girl. I mean, let’s be fair here: though [...]

PLAYING THE LAME: NEXT-GEN SPECIAL.
AKA “So why am I buying this again?”
So, a couple of days ago I was sitting down and “playing” Smackdown Vs. Raw 2007. I say playing in the sense that I was interacting with the product, but not in the sense that I was DOING anything productive… I was making a [...]

Hi.
I’m Mark B, and this is Playing the Lame. More or less.
I started a new job this week, which left me about, oh, five minutes of free time to myself. In other words, I’ve played no games this week, I’ve had no time to write much, and I’m seriously behind. I’m rather agitated as a [...]