If there were ever a videogame industry story more suited for an episode of the Young and the Restless, the Rock Band/Guitar Hero saga is certainly it. Try and follow this: Harmonix, the original developer of Guitar Hero, was purchased by MTV; Red Octane, Guitar Hero’s original publisher, was purchased by Activision; Activision taps […]

No, this isn’t a time warp; you haven’t traversed time and space a staggering 2 years to a world where Sony was steadily demolishing Nintendo’s console offering. Capcom has announced that shipments of Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition, a wii-remote enhanced, PS2-content-stealing, port of one of the most critically acclaimed games of last generation, have […]

Running out of space on your Wii? Joke from a year and a half ago: Wait, you haven’t heard of all-natural Enzyte? Joke from today: just delete it and re-download it anytime!
Wait, you’re not laughing at either of those? Well, unfortunately, you’re gonna have to live with the second joke, well, at least according to […]

According to Next-Generation, reporting from sister publication Edge, the next Animal Crossing is going to be big. No, they aren’t flipping the script and reimagining the series as an epic action game set in an issolated dystopian society ruled over by one Thomas Nook, no. Instead, the game will apparently become a massively multiplayer online […]

I worked at a website called the Tanooki for a week writing the news. Sadly, other commitments interfered and I could no longer give the amount of time that would be required of me to continue posting. It was fun and a great learning experience as I did a type of writing unfamiliar to me: […]

Welcome to oreillywriter:gamefilter, a blog dedicated to enthusiast videogame writing. I’m Rob O’Reilly, your resident game enthusiast. While, as a rule, I try to be as unbiased as possible, let me get all my inherent biases out of the way:

I currently own only one “next-generation” console: the Nintendo Wii.
I consider the Nintendo Wii […]