James Chamberlin

Well I can’t say I’m entirely surprised. AMD seemed to never be ready to launch Bulldozer and it’s clear why: Bulldozer blows. I’m not an Intel fanboy, but it’s clear to me that Intel’s Sandy Bridge is far superior to AMD’s newest chipset release. And to my delight, someone used that epic Hitler scene from [...]

When I read about GameStop opening brand-new copies of Square Enix’s new PC game Deus Ex: Human Revolution and removing a coupon from the publisher that would have given buyers a free copy of the game’s online version, I was shocked. I realize that OnLive, the online service in question, is a competitor of the [...]

Just to see what the old Ensemble guys were up to nowadays I decided to check out Bonfire Studios and Robot Entertainment and I was surprised to learn that Age of Empires Online was announced just this past week. I’m definitely intrigued. I miss the ’90s. There were some great strategy games. Whatever happened to [...]

Here are the pictures I promised the other day: The young man is explaining some design ideas for a ride to a man was told is a new employee, when in fact he’s actually the company’s CEO. In this instance, the CEO is Joel Manby, President and CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment. I believe this [...]

I watched a little bit of tonight’s new episode of the reality series Undercover Boss on CBS and was shocked by what I saw. One of the employees of an amusement park showed another employee some ideas he had for a ride and he didn’t pull out a sheet of paper and pen. He pulled [...]

I was very close to buying Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 today after seeing a very nice introduction/tutorial video. But due to the inclusion of SecuROM, I’ve decided not to buy it. As I mentioned recently, Spore had that digital rights management in it and is one of the reasons I declined buying it. [...]

I’ve spent all of my free time for the last two weeks working on another strategy guide for IGN and had more problems with my Xbox 360. I don’t play many video games anymore, just the ones I do for IGN. However, I’ve noticed the frequency of the dirty disc errors is increasing. It makes [...]

After seeing a story about Spore’s DRM on Digg, I dropped by Amazon to see how bad the reviews were and I was shocked. Very few people actually write reviews there for video games, but there have already been 667 reviews (as of this posting), and almost every reviewer has given the game a 1-star [...]

EA has come under fire recently for its decision to use SecuROM’s new copy protection for video games. What is so controversial about the new scheme is that for you to play the game, you need to have your PC connected to the Internet and the game has to “phone home” and authenticate itself every [...]

I’ve been really anxious to get my new Dell PC up and running. I don’t have my network cables yet, so I can’t connect them to the router and do anything with it on the Internet or my LAN, but I did manage to get it setup on a card table in the other room [...]