Street rules

NFL Street is everything you thought it would be. Over the top, old school, and brillant describe it to perfection. Rastakilla of our forums and I were going back and forth with a little Giants Vs. Cowboys rampage. He came out on top, but never fear I will get better. The game is not unlike NBA Street, and you can expect the single player to get dull after a while. However its a sports game, and that means find someone to grab a controller and proceed to rule over them. Its worth it trust me.

Cowboys own.

Jan 17, 2004 - 8:09 pm

Dont call it a comeback!

Good news for the Nintendo fan boys. Over the holidays of 2003 Gamecube sales rose from its previous year over 70 percent. Over all Nintendo’s Gamecube showed a 35 percent growth in sales throughout the year. Sony actually dropped 25 percent and Xbox showed no real change as far as total sales go.

While the price drop and bundle packages are obviously helping out, the question remains does Nintendo have the titles coming out? 2004 already has people thinking this is the year Xbox will blow up with its release lineup. It will be interesting to see the console wars of 2004. All the while, we benefit from the big three sparring it out. Well our bank accounts don’t, but you get the idea.

Jan 15, 2004 - 9:57 pm

Child's Play and Games in the Media

I am sure at one point or another you have heard me talk about Child's Play, the toy drive that was run by Penny Arcade this past Christmas. If you remember my original post about that toy drive then you will know that it was spurred by an article written by a man named Bill France. Mr. France is a writer for Heraldnet.com and the article in question went on to describe that video games were a sort of "traning program" for children. This training as you can probably already figure out was training to kill people. I can't make assumptions on where Mr. France developed this idea or what his justification was for writing a column on the topic, but I can tell you that it stirred up a whirlwind of controversy in gaming communities around the globe. I am sure Mr. France also received a hefty amount of hate mail along with email updating him on the immense success of Child's Play as it happened.

Looking back I felt somewhat sorry for Mr. France and I have gained a new level of respect for him and I will tell you why. Mr. France has written a follow up article of sorts and it is now online. Instead of the sort of response you would expect from most journalists who had been attacked by a large pack of rabid gamers, Mr. France apologized for making it seem like gamers were bad people. He acknowledged the wonderful things that this particular gaming community had done and how fast they had worked to accomplish such a lofty goal. I encourage you all to read the article and I fully believe that this is one step toward changing the overall stereotype that gamers are killing machines. If we had more journalists who showed their true colors as human beings instead of trying to keep some sort of reputation then it would make this battle a whole lot easier, but we don't. As I wind this down I just want to applaud Bill France for doing what most journalists and people in the limelight would never do, admit they were wrong. Here is to hoping that we can continue to show that video games are not the evil stepchild of entertainment that the mass media would have you believe, one journailst at a time.

Jan 14, 2004 - 9:27 am

Half LIfe 2 and Phantom

In a very strange story I found today, copies of Half Life 2 have begun surfacing on the Russian market. Do you remember the leaked source code? Apparently someone made the code playable and even translated it into Russian and have proceeded to sell copies of the "completed" game. No statement has been released from Valve at this point.

I am sure many of you already heard that Infinium Labs officially showed off the Phantom in the Embeded Windows booth at CES this week. The unfortunate part is that they didn't bother to turn it on and give any sort of demo....

Jan 13, 2004 - 11:14 pm

Yep its true...

We are working on changing the direction of the site. No need to fear we will still be committed to being a "gaming community". We are just optimizing things as it were right now, stay tuned for some really great stuff ahead. Trust us, Snackbar Games will be all that and a bag of chips.

Jan 13, 2004 - 10:46 pm

Final Fantasy Fever

I am such a Final Fantasy geek that all I have left is to dress up like Squall and Cosplay. Of course, that will never happen. With news of Final Fantasy XII coming out as well as the upcoming Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, well any fan boy or girl would be wetting themselves about now. I dont know what it is about us, but the series is life.

Jan 10, 2004 - 10:25 pm

Gamertag Site is open

I just wanted everyone to know that the SB Gamertag site is now open. In the future you will be able to create your own group etc, but for now its just PA and SB that you can join.

Jan 9, 2004 - 12:01 pm

Ruling!!!

Wow...my dreams are slowly becoming a reality. First Matrix and now Lord of the Rings. In a recent article on IGN.com, it seems that Vivendi is developing an MMO for LoTR entitled "Middle Earth Online". I was actually mentioning it to a friend of mine at work how sweet that would be. You are given the choices of being four races, Man, Dwarf, Elves, or Hobbits. I am totally going to be all over this when it releases. The setting of the game will take place just when the Fellowship escapes the Mines of Moria. Also the entire body of Middle Earth will also be playable with expansions and downloads as time progresses. Expect me and hopefully Pickle to be all over this when it release this year.

Jan 8, 2004 - 8:49 pm

Almost ready

The "suprise" I have been working is almost ready and I feel bad for keeping it from everyone so I will let you know what it is now. I am building a web application that will store your Xbox Live Gamertag and your list of games. It will also allow you to store information on the PC games you are currently playing as well as the games you are playing over Warp Pipe project. You will be able to join a group or just view the information for people in a specific group. Say you just want to play a game with members of Snackbar, simple. I will show you a working application by the end of the week.

Jan 7, 2004 - 12:29 am

News

I have been going around looking for news, and its totally dead out there. Cone is the man at finding tidbits about the industry, I am just the face. Well, seeing as how news is slow right now I want to make one thing clear. Bon Jovi is so freaking sweet its not even funny. Say all you want about hair bands, but their stuff still rocks today. I swear listen to Bon Jovi while playing ANY driving game.

Jan 5, 2004 - 11:53 am