Thoughts of a Random Gamer

As I ponder what sort of resolutions, if any, I will make for 2009, this game blog came to mind.  No, not that I am going to start getting my articles finished the night before my deadline, as opposed to 30 minutes before the deadline (though I’m sure Grundy would appreciate it).  No, not that [...]

Valkyrie: A female figure that chooses who lives or who dies in battle. They arise from Viking mythology.  I haven’t fully worked out the connection though…
The film Valkyrie is about Nazi Germany in WWII.  The entire movie is about enacting an alert code named Valkyrie which would go into effect if Hitler was somehow killed.  [...]

The best thing about the Super Smash Brothers franchise is that it finally settled the age old question, “Who would win in a fight, __ or __?”  Well, maybe it didn’t settle the question but it sure gave us the opportunity to make a case for our favorite hero.  Video game crossovers are a guilty [...]

Everybody loves a good glitch once and a while, especially when the glitch works in the player’s favor.  Apparently there is a glitch in Left 4 Dead on PC and Xbox 360 that will allow you to turn a Gatling gun into a launching pad, sending you catapulting across the the map.  It is something [...]

Background
Doritos Dash of Destruction is the second advertisement based game to be released on the Xbox LIVE Arcade.  Under most circumstances a game that shares the same lineage as the piss-poor Yaris game, would be disregarded as utter garbage, but it has a single redeeming factor: The design is based off of the winner Unlock [...]