Posted in Video Games, tagged Game of the Year, Nintendo DS Games, Nintendo DS Reviews, Phantom Hourglass, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Tetra, Zelda, Zelda for DS, Zelda Games on July 6, 2008 | No Comments »
White birds soar freely in the skies above the vast blue ocean. A pirate ship sails along, cutting through the waves. On deck is a crew of pirates and their leader Tetra, a brave and brash girl. Traveling with them is Link, the boy in green…
This is where my very own world-travelling, beast slaying, treasure [...]
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Posted in Pop Culture, Video Games, tagged American Heart Association, Central Park, Mail Online, Major League Eating, Nintendo Wii, NPD, Video Games, Wii Fit, Wii Old People on May 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For anyone even slightly connected to current events or pop culture, you’ve heard of the “Wii.” A video game console controlled by a wireless remote, the Nintendo Wii is a video game marvel recently outselling all other non-portable consoles including Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3. According to NPD, Nintendo has sold 714.2 [...]
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Posted in Digital Media, Pop Culture, Video Games, YouTube, tagged Africa, Best Online Video, Harry Potter, MMO, The Guild, Video Award, YouTube on March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Every once and awhile you’ll stumble across a brilliant video on YouTube. Sometimes an ambitious director devised some wonderful visual concept and then carried it out in an elaborate production. Other times some shocking or hilarious person or event was captured on video by chance.
The winners of the YouTube.com 2007 video awards are a mixture of both produced [...]
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One of my favorite toys growing up were LEGOs and just last month LEGO celebrated their 50th anniversary. When I was a kid the LEGO craze was somewhat limited to small plastic bricks. Now there are LEGO theme parks, LEGO conventions, and, of course, LEGO video games.
I’ve heard a lot of buzz about the LEGO video games, [...]
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I have a love-hate relationship with business trips. Working at a PR agency means always having to travel to and from conferences, media events, and new business pitches in different parts of the country. In fact, my colleagues are flying out to San Francisco next week to attend the Game Developers Conference (GDC). Even though [...]
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I work at a public relations (PR) agency in Boston and for the past few years the majority of my clients have been gaming companies. One of my first clients was Wizards of the Coast, a division of Hasbro, which produces more traditional pen-and-paper games like Dungeons & Dragons and trading card games like Magic: The Gathering. [...]
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