Archive for September, 2011

Cheat Your Way to “Grand Theft Auto IV”

Friday, September 30th, 2011
If you’re one of those people who love the thrill of racing games, then you will worship Grand Theft Auto IV. The game is just like racing but with a twist because you are racing to steal. Sounds confusing, huh? Well, to help you get familiar with how the game works, here are some cheat codes that will make you race for more. In GTA IV, you can receive a number of benefits by forming relationships with different

How Fishing Games Boost a Child’s Aesthetic Sense

Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Internet technology continues to march on, and no doubt, every child is given free access to it. Human beings have vehemently found the Internet as a primary necessity, what with its being the ultimate source of information. Whatever they need to find out, all it takes them is to key in some words and in a blink of an eye, the information is readily relayed. Now, one of the facilities that the World Wide Web sphere

Dish Out Some Serious Dirt on Colin McRae: DiRT

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Those track cars are for sissies. They have wide, gently sloping raceways that let them chase each other around track. The concrete walls are lined with rubber barriers, softening the impact of a 140-mph crash. Heck, even the asphalt is dusted and ground weekly, to ensure the racers get only the smoothest possible road. Then you have rally cars. Unpaved and uneven terrain. 100-foot drops. Muddy tracks that punish t

Tropico 3: How to Last Longer than Castro

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Every now and then, a game comes along that changes the landscape. Among gods eye view games, among the trendsetters were the first Sim City and later Sim City 3000, the Civilizations series, and The Sims, yet another fantastic creation by Will Wright. And then there’s Tropico. When the game first debuted back in the early part of the 2000s, I stayed up late countless nights trying to transform a sleepy backw

Surviving the Rush of NFS Shift 2: Unleashed

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
There’s nothing quite like the adrenaline of driving Pagani’s latest creation, the Huayra. From the banshee scream of its massive engine to the blackout-inducing acceleration rate, it takes a very special kind of driver to tame this beast. Thank God we’re doing the driving virtually, lest we end up with a $500,000 wreck on our hands. Need For Speed’s latest title, Shift 2: Unleashed, allows

A Gamer’s Guide to Real-life Dating

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Okay, so you’re the hotshot. The king of the hill. You’ve scored the highest killstreaks in CoD. You’ve finished the campaign for GTA… including the side missions. And you even managed win it big in the Sims 3, buying the giant mansion on the hill and decking out the front yard with three import cars and a limo. That may be fine for your sim, but what about you? It’s an old joke that t

Carmaggedon: The Evolving Ethics of Car Games

Monday, September 5th, 2011
Once upon a time, car games were innocent fun. In the days of Crazy Taxi and Mario Kart, car games were the same as driving games or driving simulators: driving around a vehicle on a generic racetrack, either against other players or against course obstacles. Nowadays however, car games have evolved (or should it be “devolved”) into something entirely different. Now, the genre involves arcade driving, s