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Dragon Age: Origins

Status: Completed Dragon Age: Origins 3 times Achievements: 57 of 76 Gamerscore: 1225/1750 DLC Played: Awakening Dragon Age wasn’t on my watch-list when it was announced. Probably because I didn’t end up enjoying Mass Effect as much as I was hoping to which turned into lukewarm feelings for BioWare. It wasn’t that I thought Mass Effect was a bad …

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Fallout: New Vegas

Status: Completed three endings, working on the last Achievements: 38 of 55 Gamerscore: 690/1140 DLC Purchased: None After the extreme disappointment that was Fable 3, I needed something to get me back on my 360. And even though I had a difficult time with Fallout 3 (mainly the DLC and it’s release day issues), I was pumped to sink …

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Persona 3 Portable

By far one of the most-loved JRPGs of the Playstation 2 era, Persona 3 Portable (or P3P) gives us the opportunity to re-visit the Dark Hour and discover the various Personas that our mind is able to call upon in the fight against the Shadows. By day, you are a typical high school junior. You …

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Alan Wake

Status: 1 Normal playthrough of Alan Wake complete, now playing on Nightmare Achievements: 31 of 50 Gamerscore: 490/1000 DLC Purchased: None As I sit here channeling Alan Wake, writing in the light to keep away any Dark Presence that may have seeped from my Xbox 360 over the past week,  I take a brief moment to reflect on just …

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3D Dot Game Heroes First Look

Original First Look from GamingAngels (March 2010) Once upon a time, in an 8-bit land not so very far away, the 8-bit people and their 8-bit pets, 8-bit grannies and 8-bit monsters came to the realization that 8-bit worlds didn’t have the market value they once did. The money stopped pouring in and life became …

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Fallout 3 DLC Reviews

Operation Anchorage Because I just can’t seem to get enough of minus 30 degree Celsius weather and piles of snow….. The much-anticipated first bundle of Fallout 3 DLC, Operation Anchorage, arrived about an hour before midnight MST on January 26th. I had been watching the online Xbox LIVE Marketplace since 10pm, refreshing often, anxious to …

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Fallout 3

Status: 1 playthrough of Fallout 3’s story complete Achievements: 59 of 72 Gamerscore: 1280/1550 DLC Purchased: Broken Steel, Mothership Zeta, Operation Anchorage, Point Lookout, The Pitt (reviews for these can be found here) Fallout 3 is built on the same open world concept as Oblivion, also developed by Bethesda. You begin your life in Vault 101 with your …

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