Author: Guy Desmarais

When I first got the Wii, I was so excited that I was willing to try pretty much anything that could be played on it. That’s usually what happens when you buy a new console on launch day: you look through the launch line-up, pick-up whatever looks half-decent and hope for the best. This is…

The Halo 3 craze is a few weeks old now. Everybody who wanted to has probably already beaten the game, and those who wished never to hear from it again are mostly getting what they asked for. Don’t worry, I am not going to turn this into another rant against the game, because frankly, while…

My left knee is swollen to the size of a grapefruit right now. All of this is because I am quite the awesome goaltender when it comes to playing floor hockey. As a sidenote (yeah, two sentences in and already a sidenote!), I didn’t know it was called “floor hockey” until today, as we French-Canadians…

One of my friends from England always tells me how European gamers get lubed up real good and then screwed repeatedly by publishers. He told me stories about his woes and the constant pain of receiving games with a delay; sometimes up to a couple of months after the title has been released in Japan…

Despite its flaws, I have always been a fan of the N64. In fact, on a personal basis, it’s probably in my top 3 when it comes to my favorite console of all time. Sure, the cartridge format put a stop to a couple of cool ideas (such as the F-Zero track editor or that…

A friend of mine came over last week so I could show him Mario Strikers Charged. He’s a big sports games fan, you know, the kind who will buy a new copy of Madden each year, buy both NHL 08 and NHL 2K8 and try the demos of those college football games and as well…

This week’s edition marks the end of the four parts series about forgotten platform games characters. We have seen animal mascots for the first two weeks, while the last article was about those that were not quite human either. This time, I will present six human characters that tried to become the next big thing…

In this third part of the “Forgotten Platforming Heroes” series, we will move away from animals to finally introduce characters that would not otherwise stare blankly into empty air or scratch their ass on the carpet if they were not in a videogame. Today’s protagonists are not quite human either, so what does that make…

As promised, here are six more characters that tried to become the next big hero in the platform games genre. Last week, we’ve seen the disaster that was Bubsy the Cat, as well as the mildly successful Aero the Acro-Bat, among others. This week, we’re continuing with the animal theme with six new videogame heroes…

Videogames have their own set of icons and stars. While movie stars and rock stars are more or less recognizable all around the world, gaming icons are pretty much inexistent for a lot of people. Sure, if you talk about Mario, there’s a good chance the person might have heard about the plumbing legend, but…

So apparently, Rockstar’s Manhunt 2 is going to be rated AO – Adults Only. I guess we should have seen it coming. After all, pressure groups kept bugging the ESRB about giving that rating to the game while it was still in production. Their rationale was that this title would be nothing more than a…