Author: Alex Williams

  • 411MAX: News News Revolution 12.09.03

    Welcome once again to the Tuesday spot with 411MAX! It’s a watered down column this week considering that I had a HUGE project in Statistics to finish, and that took precedence. But I should’ve been long finished with the thing before tonight anyway. So I’m punishing myself by watching the encore presentation of the SpikeTV…

  • Encore Extra Stage News Report 12.05.03

    Hey, I’m back! Miss me? No? Well, TOO BAD! I’m giving you Friday’s news anyway. Deal with it. To start with, I’d like to point out that through some bizarre twist of fate, I’m kicking all sorts of ass in DDR as of late. Over on the PS2 side, I recently scored my second Heavy…

  • Review: Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (Nintendo Gamecube)

    Game: Mario Kart: Double Dash! System: Nintendo GameCube Genre: Kart Racing (“Fun” Racing) Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: November 18th, 2003 It’s no secret that the Mario Kart franchise is an incredible one. It took the traditional racing formula, added some creative weaponry, and made it accessible to everyone. Not only that, but the…

  • 411MAX: News News Revolution 12.02.03

    Time once again for the Tuesday News, and I’m JUST the man to give it! Have a nice Thanksgiving, everyone? I know I did. I’m feeling rested, recharged, and…oh crap, finals are two weeks away, aren’t they? Okay, scratch that. I’m more stressed now than I’ve been in a while, I’ve got four projects to…

  • 411MAX: News News Revolution 11.25.03

    Hello, and welcome to the pre-Thanksgiving edition of 411MAX! As with every Tuesday, this is Alex Williams (or Alex2, as some of you might call me) here with the gigantic mish-mash of stuff that I like to call your Tuesday news report! To begin with, if you didn’t read me last week, this is the…

  • Review: Crimson Skies: High Road To Revenge (XB)

    Game: Crimson Skies: High Road To Revenge System: X-Box Genre: Aerial Combat Developer: Microsoft Publisher: Microsoft Released: 10/21/03 When I got to buy games, I won’t lie to you. I’ll go and stick to the same genres I enjoy and never look back. (Music games, RPGs, platformers, and the occasional extreme skateboarding title). I’ll rarely…

  • Encore Extra Stage News Report 11.21.03

    Welcome to Encore Extra Stage: Week 5! And I beat Berg’s prediction! I lasted more than a month! Before we begin, I’d like to give a few shout outs. Why? It’s my column, and I do as I please! First, happy, happy birthday to my sister, Mystic Fire! I hope she’s enjoying Mario Kart as…

  • Review: The Simpsons: Hit & Run (XB)

    Game: The Simpsons: Hit & Run System: X-Box Genre: Mission-Based Driving Developer: Radical Entertainment Publisher: VU Games Release Date: 9/16/03 The Simpsons video game franchise has never really set the world on fire. I mean, do YOU claim to play Virtual Bart or Simpsons Pro Wrestling on a consistent basis? Well, do you? The good…

  • 411MAX: News News Revolution 11.18.03

    “I’m going to punch you like a first grade teacher! Then I’ll make toast!” — My Battle Cry (apparently) Greetings all, and welcome to my own personal hell week. That’s right, it’s the special HELL WEEK edition of 411MAX! Why do we call this Hell Week? Simple, fellow reader: I have about 17 projects for…

  • Encore Extra Stage News Report 11.14.03

    Encore Extra Stage News Report (11.14.03) Teaser: DDR Downloads, N-Gage haxo0red, award shows Spiked, and HAIKUS! In PRINNY FORM! Time to wrap up the week here at the ol’ 411. And since I see no one else up to the task, I nominate ME to do it! Anyway, here it is, the fourth week of…

  • 411MAX: News News Revolution 11.11.03

    Before we begin this week, I want to take this time to be extremely happy about the Redskins WINNING this week! Not only that, but winning by a seven-point margin! Of course this doesn’t really make up for the fact that they’ve gotten beaten SENSELESS for four weeks straight, especially when they were 3-1 at…

  • Encore Extra Stage News Report 11.05.03

    Welcome to Week 3 of the Encore Extra Stage! And I’m not burnt out yet! (I’m determined to outlast Bryan Berg’s prediction by at least a week. We’ll see, though.) In some slightly personal news, I now have Tony Hawk’s Underground on the ‘Box, and I’m enjoying it muchly. It has the most depth out…

  • 411MAX: News News Revolution 11.04.03

    Welcome to the first Tuesday of the month! And I’m here to greet you! Unless you clicked over to the Smackdown review instead and left, not clicking here at all…but then you wouldn’t be reading this at all…and then…um…boy, now I’m confused. Anyway, confusion aside, its officially crunch time here at college. I got plenty…

  • Encore Extra Stage News Report 10.31.03

    I forgot. Scaring people doesn’t work very well with text over the Internet. Anyway, welcome back to the Friday News! And today is the special Halloween edition! Which means I can skimp on the news and flex my creative muscle! EW: Excuse me? Skimp on the news? Well, only for the week! Anyway, the news…

  • 411MAX: News News Revolution 10.28.03

    Another Tuesday, another bunch of news bites. Welcome again to 411MAX! Some of you may not know, but I’ve recently secured the Friday spot in news recapping in addition to the Tuesday slot. The good news? I get two slots a week! The bad news? I might get burned out a bit quicker. Either way,…

  • Review: Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Brothers 3 (Game Boy Advance)

    Game: Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Brothers 3 System: Game Boy Advance Genre: Action Platformer Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: 10/20/03 Super Mario Brothers 3 can be considered one of the all-time greatest games to ever be released. At the time, it was nothing like we’ve ever seen before. Levels upon levels, power-ups…

  • Encore Extra Stage News Report 10.24.03

    Well now, this is interesting! Me covering the Friday spot? Where’s the guy that’s usually here? It’s a sad story, really. Little ol’ Jeffy admitted to buying an N-Gage. And as we all know, that’s a mark of DEATH amongst the 411 Staff. So Lucard, Jackson, and Baxley, and myself dragged him kicking and screaming…

  • 411MAX: News News Revolution 10.21.03

    Hello again, one and all! It must be Tuesday, because I’m talking to you right now! YES! Anyway, first let me apologize for the way my column looked last week. I didn’t review my HTML as well as I should have, and I missed three quotation marks in my links. Those missing marks omitted ENTIRE…

  • 411MAX: News News Revolution 10.14.03

    Is it Tuesday yet? It is? GREAT! I get to do another news column! Last week was cut a bit short due to the holiday, but this week is a different story. Here, you get TONS of news, a brand new commentary, and the Cheat! section from two weeks ago. I’ll explain THAT part later.…

  • 411MAX: News News Revolution 10.07.03

    Hello everyone, and welcome to a condensed version of 411MAX this week, in honor of the Yom Kippur. Yes, I understand that it has come and gone already, but its still the holiday at the time of this writing. So please forgive me for this being a no-frills edition. Also, I apologize for not having…