The Game Room

Despite my best efforts, I’m somehow still president of the Gamers of OSU and we’re having a LAN party!

Saturday, March 15 in the Student Union, Exhibit Room 2 (4th floor) starting at 10:00 a.m. and running until 6:00 p.m. $5 at the door.

Normally we run until about 11:00, but it’s the start of spring break and the Union closes early. We thought about moving, then remembered that we’re about broke.

The informal title of this LAN is “There will be Brawl!” As the name suggests, we’re having a Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament. Make sure you show up by 2:00 if you want in. We’re still doing PC stuff, mainly Call of Duty 4 and Team Fortress 2, but we’ll play whatever.

So come on out and have a good time!

I can honestly say this is the most impressive innovation I’ve seen in a game in a long time.

More impressive than the Portal gun, more impressive than the spherical worlds in Super Mario Galaxy. I even like this more than Forge in Halo 3, but maybe not the ability to record stuff. Seriously that should be required by law. But then again, that’s not really gameplay.

Anyway, check out this gameplay footage.

The game is everything Super Paper Mario wishes it was.

Fez, developed by Kokoromi, recently won the Independent Games Festival Award for Excellence in Visual Art. I’m glad that they’re getting recognition of this, but I really think they should have won in the Design Innovation category as well.

I really can’t wait to get my hands on this game. Xbox Live Arcade, Steam, whatever. Just get it out there and playable.

If you want more info on Kokoromi hit up their site or check out this interview over at Arthouse Games.

I was having trouble thinking of what to write about for my first post on the site, so even though most of it has been covered on the about page, this will be sort of an introduction and mission statement type entry.

In other words, I got tired of looking at the 404 error while working on the style of the site.

My name is Hans Wuerflein. (Pronounced “Hanz Were-fline” because no one in my family can even fake the German accent required to pronounce it the way it was originally)

I’m a News Editorial Journalism student at Oklahoma Sate University. I’m also the president of the Gamers of OSU, but other than that all I do is sit around and play games.

I hope to someday write professionally for a video game magazine or website, but I’ll take just about whatever job is available after I graduate. Oklahoma Game & Fish Magazine here I come!

As far as the gaming goes, I play both console and PC, but not a lot of handheld stuff at the moment. I’ve yet to find a genre that I didn’t like at least one representative of, but FPS, strategy (real-time or turn-based), rhythm, puzzle, and old-school point and click adventures (specifically Lucasarts’) are some of my favorites. I play sports games, but I refuse to pay more that $5 for a copy of Madden, so I’m still looking forward to playing the ‘07 installment.

I have a gaming PC, but it’s starting to fall behind. It can run everything but Crysis (duh) and Bioshock (stupid SM 3.0) though. On the console side of things I’ve got a 360, Xbox, PS2, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Saturn, N64, SNES, Genesis/32X, and a knock-off NES. So yeah, I can play just about anything released up though 2007 unless it’s exclusive to the Wii or PS3.

Anyway, the point of this site is really to give me a place to write down my thoughts on games the industry, gaming culture, and whatever else gaming related I happen to think of. Also to get a grade in the class its for, but mainly for the writing thing.

So check back soon for, as the header suggests, news, reviews, and rants about video games.