Tag: playing the lame

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…

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…

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…

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…

Hello, this is Mark B once again here at PtL central, here to give you your fix of whatever’s on my mind this week. There was no column last week, you will note, for two separate reasons: first, because my job status at the moment is in a state of flux (that I’d rather not…

Yo yo people, it’s Mark B bringing you another disturbing creation from the annuls of gaming crapdom. I got some pretty solid feedback from last week’s column, surprisingly enough, so we’re going to try an experiment here: every week, I’ll try to highlight a piece of news (or two) in addition to my normal writing…

Hey folks, Mark B here with a column, though not the normal one. I’ve been kind of busy with some things, both real life and website related, and while I have a little something planned for ya soon (well, WE do… you’ll see), I figured it’d be kind of… well… LAME to not put SOMETHING…

Ohayo! It is I, your wonderful master of all things craptacular, Mark B, here once again to ladle some crap onto your waiting plate. Sorry for the lack of me last week… life interfered with my otherwise free schedule, and combined with the inability to come up with something worthwhile to write about, I wasn’t…

Hey hi howdy, I’m Mark B, and we’re Playing the Lame right here, right now. Okay, RIGHT NOW I’m probably playing Oblivion, so no, I’m not technically playing the lame, but the cool thing is that this will pretty much be here for the life of the site, so depending on when you read it,…

Before we begin, I’d like to take this opportunity to extend a big “f*ck you” to PSM as a collective entity, for: 1.) trying to justify homebrew PSP applications by using the old standby of how PC game makers don’t pay a licensing fee to release PC games. Hey, guys, Nintendo Seal of Approval, remember?…

Hola peeps. Mark B here to hook you up with the lameness. Normally I’d be talking terrible gaming, but that’s going to have to wait until next week. Right about now I’m pissed off. It’s a relative kind of pissed off, mind you (I DO have a life, y’know), but I have something to say…

Hail folks, it is I, Mark B, here to regale you once again with a tale of crap from the anals of history. And no, that’s not a typo. I took last week off to work on college stuff, but I doubt you really missed my presence all that much, so I’m not too concerned.…

Hey everybody, welcome to Playing the Lame, the content-free edition! Basically, I’m working on a project that’s taking up all of my site-writing time (it’s for IP, so don’t think I’m wasting my writing time having a life or something, that’ll never happen), but I figured I’d give y’all something to mess around with. I’m…

Hola cats and kittens, it is I, the Crapmaster himself, Mark B., here to bring you more bad gaming goodness, because I love ya. I’d have sooner been the Crapkeeper, but Lloyd Kaufman said if I did that, he’d sue me for defamation of character. If you don’t get that joke, congratulations, you have better…

Hello hello, and welcome to another exciting, fun-filled installment of Playing the Lame! Gee, that sounded so sincere in my head. Anyway, I’m Mark, here once again to bring you the cream of the crap, as it were. I’d have finished this up earlier, but I had to go back and play around with the…

Hello and welcome to the inaugural “Playing the Lame”. I’m your gracious host, Mark B, and I bid you welcome to my domain of terrible games. Well, technically, I’m not that gracious… the soda’s warm and I ate all the chips, but if you can ignore that, I think we’ll get along fine. Anyway, since…