GameSurge Mainpage Find out more about us GameSurge community pages GameSurge hosting information Game news from around the web. To the GameSurge Mainpage To the Computers Mainpage To the Home Console Mainpage To the Arcade Mainpage To the Strategies Mainpage To the Features Mainpage
To the Home page
Home
News, and the latest updates.
Archives
Stories from the past...
Submit News
Got a item of interest? Here's the place to go.
Feedback
Your opinion always counts on how we can make GameSurge even better.
Mailbag
Comments on our features, by you, the viewers.
To computer site map
Hardware
Tweaks, reviews and a handy driver index highlight our newest section
Reviews
Looking to buy one of the hottest games? We have it covered.
Previews
Get a advanced look at the games of tomorrow.
Interviews
Find out more about the people behind your favorite game.
Strategy
Need Help? We have a very large selection of walkthroughs now up.
Gallery
A special section featuring the best in artwork and images.
To Features site map
Editorials
The written word, by staff and viewers.
Game Guy
A bi-monthly column contributed by Mark H Walker, an independant writer in the Gaming community.
Gallery
Pictures from around the web.
Hosting
Our current hosting plans and features.
Site Information
Who we are, what we do, our policies and job positions.
To Strategy site map
Strategy Index Guide
The resource for the best articles for the best games. Now with support over 55 games
Strategy Menu
  • Arcade/Pinball
  • Dreamcast
  • Files
  • GameBoy
  • GameGear
  • Genesis
  • N64
  • PC
  • PlayStation
  • Strategy Indexes
  • To Console site map
    PlayStation
    The Sony PlayStation, and beyond...
    Nintendo 64
    Currently Down.
    Dreamcast
    The Dreamcast resource, and more. Home of the DC Technical pages.




    Arcade
    To the Features MainpageTo the EditorialsTo the Gallery MainpageGameSurge information pagetO To the Arcade MainpageTo Pinball menuTo Arcade games Menu

    The Game Guy
    By Mark H. Walker

    Nobody Said Gaming is Pretty: Part Three

    It’s an ugly Internet. Can you believe that a year ago everything but my toilet was going on line? Now, the Internet looks like the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. My regular readers --bless the two of you-(we lost one), no doubt recall my game publisher/Internet lamentations in the last two issues of The Game Guy. This issue brings more dismal tidings.

    Gamepower, CMP media’s gaming portal, closed its doors on the 31st of July. Now friends, this was no flash in the pan, light-on-the-budget site. Funded by CMP, Gamepower had quality writers, quality content (see a parallel there?), and paid damn well to boot. CMP decided to drop all non business-to-business ventures. Hence, Gamepower became a virtual hot potato, and no one was willing to don an oven mitt and stop its fall.

    Daily Radar, Incite, Gamecenter, Gamepower are all closed. Where will it end? That’s a question journalists trade in hushed voices, their back against the wall, their wallets growing thinner.

    My guess is four.

    Four sites that is. By June of 2002 there will be four, high-traffic, professional game webzines left. No more, no less. Yeah, I have names in mind, but I won’t spew them. Of course their will be plenty of "for the love of the game" type sites, and maybe a pair of news portals, but only four full-featured, professionally run, game sites. Let’s hope I’m wrong.

    Life Without Fear

    You ever get the feeling that everything that we do is somehow bad for us or our children?

    This just in from Avault... Mark Bender, the British Davis Cup tennis team physiotherapist, states that the repeated movements associated with console and PC gaming can cause painful and debilitating repetitive strain injuries.

    Also in... Dr. Kimberly M. Thompson, from the Harvard School of Public Health, claims that the rating system used for video games in the US does not fully account for violent content. She says that the rating system deems some games, which are chock full of murder and mayhem, suitable for a general audience.

    Let’s be clear. The point is not whether 22,000 mouse clicks a day can injure, or whether the ESRB failed to classify Spyro’s bombardier flaming as violence, but rather the pervading societal feeling of fear these news tidbits personify. We fear that too much gaming will hurt us; our kids will grow up to be mass murderers, schools are unsafe, killers lurk in every park, fat is bad for you, carbs are bad for you, yadda, yadda, so on and so forth. And so, society wallows in fear, counting every calorie, diligently studying self-defense techniques, and worrying. Unfortunately, such an existence lacks. It lacks grins, lacks laughs, and lacks life. Live life without fear; have fun.

    I now return you to your regularly scheduled game column.

    Tight Takes

    Sudden Strike Forever. These folks SOooo get it. This Sudden Strike add on is as good as the original, but even more so. The entire concept of beautiful European towns, table-top miniature-real tanks, and fast paced, yet semi-realistic, battles is exceedingly clever. Forever adds desert terrain, autumn and winter landscapes. Also included are four short campaigns, seven stand-alone missions, and 30 new units, such as the American’s M-18 Hellcat tank destroyer. Tanks can now back up, which keeps their thick frontal armor facing the enemy. Generals can use binoculars to spot enemy units, and officers give an experience bonus to nearby troops. Please folks, how about a modern day version?

    © Mark H. Walker, LLC 2001 Mark H. Walker is a veteran interactive entertainment journalist who has written over 40 books including his recently released Video Games Almanac and The Parent’s Guide to PlayStation Games.
     



    " "



    To Reviews Mainpage
    Zalman: ZM-DS4F Headphones

    An affordable, ultra-portable headphone set.
    more

    To Previews Mainpage



    Affiliates

    >>
    » Contact Us » Top » Homepage

    All HTML coding are original and © GameSurge.
    Original Graphics and layout are copyright © of P.D.Sanderson and shivaSite Designs.
    No part of this site may be reproduced without prior consent.
    Site best viewed with I.E./NS 4+.
    Resolution is 1024x768 + / 16 bit+ color recommended
    -->
    Designed by shivaSite