Archive for April, 2011

Auto-renewing my Xbox LIVE account

Xbox Live GOLD card for Eternity by Nakedrobber.com

Hold onto your wallets kids, Xbox LIVE is forcing you to renew your subscriptions even if you don’t want to pay for a Gold account. I’ve seen a lot of stupid things in my day but this one earns this year’s “Make Society a Little More Shitty” award. This has got to be the worst business decision since we allowed a woman to sue for sexual harassment.

What happened to you, Nintendo?

When the Nintendo Wii was first launched in 2006, we were promised the future of gaming that would get deathly out of shape gamers up off their asses and burning off those Funyuns and Dr. Pepper they’ve been consuming seven meals a day since birth. The sales numbers are astounding for sure but now that five years have passed, Nintendo has sold us little more than a small white brick we use to prop doors open and crush cockroaches in our apartments.

Lest We Forget

I’ve been feeling a little bit reflective on life lately, and it has nothing to do with the garbage bags of bloody sneakers and filthy winter jackets covered in tire marks or the unusually silent bottle depot beside my house. No, it i­sn’t Veteran’s day and even if it was I wouldn’t bother getting out of bed to phone my grandpa who is probably wandering around at home in a diaper, looking for his heart medicine. Today I learned about a new book titled The Art of Sierra which has provided an overdue trip down memory lane for the legendary adventure games from the 80′s and 90′s.

10 Reasons Why No One Attended Your Funeral

10 reasons why no one attended your funeral

Stories of people being found dead at work, or being left to rot are becoming frighteningly common. With all the chaos and uncertainty in the world we sometimes have to stop and think about how we will be remembered after we’re gone. Do you want your corpse to be worthy of a heart-wrenching burial, and not just burned out back with the rest of the household garbage? Then you better put down the game controller down and pay attention to our latest 10 Reasons Why…

Steam vs GamesforWindows

Horse vs Car... car always wins by nakedrobber.com

The Internet is good for three things: ordering strands of piano wire off of amazon, helping psychopaths troll craigslist for victims and downloading games. So in our own ignorant geek way let’s take a brief break from making dolls out of human hair and look into the top two methods of getting games online legally: Gamesforwindows.com vs Steam, The Ultimate Online Game Platform.