Just a friendly reminder if you planned on participating in the CinciFrag sponsored laser tag tournament at Laser Web in Fairfield it’s tonight!  If you didn’t know about it and you’re not doing anything tonight come on out! It all starts at 10pm EST and ends at 6am EST. If you haven’t paid yet you’ll have to pay $45 at the door.

Expect awesome pictures and recaps to come! We’ll see you there!

Yahtzee is back to his old self again, bringing back all the ire and embedded anger he posseses towards sequals that aren’t worth anything.

Overall I wasn’t too impressed with the game. It’s your run of the mill combat flight sim. The one cool thing that HAWX offers that is different from other flight sims is the experience system that lets you unlock more jets and weapons. I think that will generate alot of replay value unlike other games in the genera that just give you the jets and weapons after finishing the campaign. The graphics are mediocre and the gameplay is pretty much what you expect. Lock onto the enemy, fire missiles, enemy dies, lock onto new enemy, repeat. It gets rather boring.

I give it a 3/5. Ubisoft doesn’t butcher the combat flight sim genera, but they also don’t show any innovation.

If you know me you know that I am the biggest Halo fan on the face of the planet. Others may argue that there are others more obsessed than me, but meh what can you do? When I first heard about Halo Wars I didn’t know what to expect. I’m not the biggest RTS fan, but it’s Halo. Who could go wrong with Halo right? Not only that Ensemble, the developers of Age of Empires, is developing Halo Wars.

The Halo Wars demo dropped on the Xbox Live Market Place a few days ago and I finally got to try my hand at it. I do have to say that I wasn’t super impressed, but at the same time I was not disappointed. Check out my overview and video review and hit the jump for my written thoughts.

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Yahtzee criticizes Skate 2 for furthering the existance of people in this world who enjoy hurting themselve repeatedly.

It’s been a few days since my last post and I apologize for that. I have been sick! =( I am back with some exciting news, though. The GameStop in Cincinnati Mills is having a Street Fighter IV Tournament at 2pm on Saturday, February 21st.

So, you are thinking “Bleh, a video game tournament at a mall.” Well, here’s the thing, sign up for it and win and you get a special SFIV headband! Not cool enough? How about entry into Round 2? Win that and proceed to Round 3. Win THAT and GameStop pays to send you to a national competition in California where you have a chance to win a Limited Edition Street Fighter IV Arcade Unit. According to GameStop, they are worth about $15,000.

If you can’t make the tournament but A) Still want a headband and B) still want a shot at one of the 10 (yes, there are only 10 in the United States) Arcade Units, stop into GameStop and drop $5 down on a Pre-Order of Street Fighter 4. You are automatically entered.

Sorry for the cheap GameStop plug! I hope to see everyone interested at the tournament!

Yahtzee goes back in time to when games were apparantly so good that he had nothing bad to say about them. Endso-facto, we get a brief review of the old PC game Thief which he has mentioned on a few other occasions.

This is just a friendly reminder about the upcoming Laser Web laser tag tournament. CinciFrag is proud to sponsor a laser tag tournament of epic proportions at Laser Web in Fairfield! The tournament will take place on Saturday  the 28th. Plan on arriving 10-11:30pm for check in and play will begin at 12 midnight.

Teams can range from 6 to 9 people and the cost will be $35 per player if you register and pay before February 13th. (Renting Laser Web out for the night is rather expensive and this is not an official Laser Web sponsored event. People are paying out of their pockets to rent the building.) If you don’t get your payment in by the 13th then expect to pay $40 before the event and $45 if you wait to pay at the door.

There are currently 37 open spots left. Please register and pay on this website.

Rules are house Laser Web Rules with a few exceptions here and there. We will be using Dark Light Tournament Standard rules for the games and one homebrew game. You can find all Dark Light Rules on their website.

Medals and Trophies are definitely in the works Prizes and other prizes are still in the planning stages. As of now food will not be provided, but any extra entry money will be put forward towards food items. Feel free to bring your own. Also remember Laser Web has their own vending machines for drinks and snacks.

If you have any questions hit up Dave Rowe at daverowe11@yahoo.com . And you can also catch any of us at Laser Web regularly.

This is one of those times when you wished you lived somewhere else. Not California, not New York, not Florida…Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. A Best Buy in Stroudsburg is hosting a huge Resident Evil 5 launch party full of awesomeness which includes a staged event with zombies, doctors/medical personnel, extras, and….the US Army?

US Army troops will take place in this staged event full with working guns that will be firing blanks. As you come through the store to pick up your game it will be set up like a disaster area with all of this chaos going on around you and at the end there’s supposed to be a “big scare.”

Drake Cambell, who helped come up with the event, said he went to the local recruiting station to borrow fatigues for some actors. “I asked for fatigues and they said why don’t we just show up,” he said. “So we upped the ante.”

There better be video!

How would you like to win some money for yourself, and be able to help others at the same time?

Charity Gamers is hosting a tournament called “Play 4 Charity”. This will be a 2v2 Halo 3 tournament, following a MLG ruleset and the maplist will be random.

There is absolutely no entry fee for this tournament, and the prize is $60 for the winning team, and $60 for any charity that they choose to donate to.
Registrations for this tournament begin on February 5th and should be submitted on: CGTournaments.org, our new site, which exists specifically for Charity Gamers Tournaments.

The final day that registrations will be accepted is March 3rd. The tournament will begin on 5 p.m. EST on March 7th (Saturday), and is expected to last approximately 4-5 hours. The first three rounds are best out of 3, after which the games will be single elimination.

There are only 32 team spots open, so register today.