Piracy, DRM, and Spore

As you very well might know Spore finally came out a few weeks ago and the response seems overwhelmingly negative from the hardcore PC gaming crowd which seems a bit unfair. Most of the controversy seems to stem around the whole SecuROM DRM fiasco. I will be first in line to say that PC games need to find a much much much better solution to this problem. However, I think that the “hardcore” crowd needs to rethink their position. Then again, so does EA. (more…)


 

Quality Games Are Self-Selecting

As I’m trying to decide the next game I choose to review, it occured to me that most of the games that I own I tend to really enjoy, so as I review them, it’s going to be hard to really complain that they aren’t that good. I don’t want you as a reader to think that I’m soft on all games or anything like that, so it made me think about how gamers buy games. (more…)