James Chamberlin

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It doesn’t seem like all that long ago that the Microsoft guys were dead-set against any talks with Sony about bringing the BluRay drive to their console system. They seemed to have an “over my dead body” stance on the issue, but Steve Balmer admitted that the console will be going blue this year.
The [...]

Grand Theft Auto isn’t a series of games I’ve ever played. I can understand why some people love the games, but there hasn’t been anything shown to me that made me want to go out and buy it. It’s just not my thing, I guess.

But the level of attention the game gets always [...]

I’ve currently got two Dell computers on my desk and I’m about to replace the older one with a new machine. I’ve built my own computers in the past, but I’ve been very happy with the two Dells that I’ve received and really don’t enjoy building my own. The odds of getting a [...]

There have been a series of tower defense games that I’ve played online for free over the past year or so. They’re all simple strategy games that can really make time fly by. Well, a new one has popped up and it’s a little different from some of the others I’ve played.
In previous [...]

I’ve seen a lot of headlines about Windows Vista and XP on sites like digg lately. Vista isn’t being purchased by businesses because of drivers, slowness of machines, memory consumption, etc, and some people seem to think that Vista is doomed.
I just don’t see MS giving up on the OS anytime soon. As [...]