The Long Road to GOTY
There's 8,760 hours in one calendar year. 525,600 minutes. 31,536,000 seconds. Seems like a lot, right? Yet that still isn't enough time to play all of the great games we've seen in 2004. The... Tough Love for the FPS
Logging onto bungie.net can be a humbling experience. The degree of detail the site allows when checking your Halo 2 online statistics is both fanatic and fascinating, but it can also be a punch... A Gentleman's Game: A Queen & Country Novel
Intelligence work, real intelligence work, has almost zero in common with James Bond. There's no dry martinis and shootouts with Walther PPKs. There damn sure aren't any stupid castles made of... Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
I made a vow for 2004 that I'd finish Stephen King's Dark Tower cycle of novels. After all, King went to all of the trouble to finally finish his epic work this year, with the last three books... Baseball Under the Microscope
This is my first GameSpotting journal entry since launching GameSpot Sports, so naturally I'd like to get in a cheap plug for the site before continuing on with my gaming thoughts for the week. If... Racing News Blues
Another week, another spat of bad news for racing fans. Hot on the heels of Sony's announcement of Gran Turismo no online for Gran Turismo 4 (but a hopeful pre-Christmas release date) comes... 50K in 30 days
National Novel Writing Month is upon us again. Well, almost. Actually, November is the month (un)officially dubbed National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo, for short). Each year, thousands... Let 'em Play, Tehran!
I was going to write about something completely different for this week’s Gamespotting journal entry but then this dropped in my lap… The World Cyber Games are in town this week.... New stuff from iTunes
I got an iPod a few months back and have been busy filling it up with music from my CD collection but, up until last weekend, I hadn't tried downloading anything off the iTunes music service yet.... GT4 Online Black Flagged
Has Sony finally thrown in the towel in this console generation’s online wars? Accounting for the recent news surrounding the Gran Turismo serie, the answer may be yes. Not that Sony ever... Neve and Guz
Just in case you were still on the fence about whether the Olympics suck, I present to you Neve and Guz, official mascots of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games: Oh and, yeah, the Olympics... A Rewarding Experience?
Maybe if Tiger Woods played this year’s version of his videogame, he’d regain some confidence and improve his real-life golf game. After all, successful links play in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005... Hip Tix Fix
I just secured my tickets to see one of my favorite bands, Canada's The Tragically Hip , on October 7 here in San Francisco. I caught them for the first time during their 2002 tour supporting... Auburn beats LSU
10-9 Auburn beats LSU in a defensive shocker. God, I wish I was at Toomer's Corner right now! We Must Protect This House (from Steve Inskeep)! part 3 of 3
During my first week at GameSpot, I spent two days in Washington D.C. to appear as a guest on National Public Radio’s morning news show, "Morning Edition." Being in our nation’s capital was... We Must Protect This House (from Steve Inskeep)! part 2 of 3
OK, for those of you who heard the tail end my NPR interview yesterday know I got 0wn3d by the host on a fourth and long play. I've really got no excuse for this outrage, except my own hubris. Let... We Must Protect This House (from Steve Inskeep)!
Just a quick note this morning: My interview for NPR's "Morning Edition", which I taped two weeks ago, will be airing Tuesday, September 13 (also known as tomorrow). Check your local listings for... Confessions of a Redneck Cosell
Picture this: It’s 1982 and you're a ten-year old kid from south Alabama with an accent that sounds as if you were speaking with a mouthful of rubber bands. Words like “ya’ll” and “dang”... First article UP(!) and words of wisdom from XBL
To say I'm excited is a bit of an understatement. My preview for NHL 2005 was posted last night on GameSpot, my first published article here as Sports Editor. While the thought of a locked-out... Lloyd and I welcome you.
Hi there. This is my first journal entry. I am the Sports Editor here at Gamespot and plan to share many exciting things with you in the coming months including, but not limited to: 1) Opinions....