Microsoft IllumiRoom
Back in January, before our brilliant website was in existence, Microsoft used CES to announce its lofty goal to keep gamers in their living rooms for ever! How would Microsoft accomplish such a thing? With IllumiRoom, a technology that projects the game onto your walls ...
Beast of America: Intro
Welcome to Beast of America, a special series of Schmeditorials for this week. Each day will see a new article discussing some overarching themes contained in Bioshock Infinite as they pertain to real life America. Yes, we here at Gamers Schmamers have talked quite a b ...
Phoenix Wright 5’s New Trailer
What, you want me to say something? Uh. Phoenix Wright is amazing, you should all play it. It’s a wacky, wonderful, and touching series of games for the DS that simulate a bizarre mix of Japanese and American court intrigue and they’re all well worth owning ...
TeeVee, Eve Online TV Show
The EVE Online Fanfest happened this weekend in Iceland, and among other exciting news it was announced that EVE Online, the most mysterious and dense of MMOs, is getting a TV show. No, seriously! What’s more, the show is being based off of the adventures and exp ...
Schmabletop Reviews: Mage Knight
So far on our Schmabletop Reviews we’ve been gentle with you. Easing you into the experience of playing board games, giving you ideas for things you and your non-board game friends could pick up and play with very little experience in the board gaming world. Not anymor ...
Cautiously Optimistic, XCOM Shooter
Unlike many in the world, I was only excited about XCOM: Enemy Unknown and the ever-name-changing XCOM shooter. More XCOM is never a bad thing. Today more details were released about the shooter, officially naming it “The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.” Of cours ...
T’Hersday: A Piece of Meat
Pieces of meat. Apparently that’s what Dead Island: Riptide publishers Deep Silver think of their customers. A couple of months back it was revealed that in parts of the world if you pre-ordered the new Dead Island game your pre-order bonus was a pretty disgustin ...
Schmame Over Bonus: The A-Typical Gamer
In this very special episode of Schmame Over, Adam interviews his best buddy and podcast co-host of The JimmyJew Podcast Extravaganza (JimmyJew.Libsyn.com): James Scanlan! Join us as we trace the history of an anomaly in the wide world of gaming: a gamer who grew upR ...
A Less Critical Look At Vanillaware Art
This week on Schmame Over, Patrick and I ripped into Vanillaware artist George Kamitani over the sexist and immature art for Vanillaware’s upcoming game Dragon’s Crown. We also mentioned that he had done some art for characters that wasn’t like the Dra ...
Somewhere, Jack Thompson Stirs From His Slumber
According to the Southeast Missourian, a man hailing from Little Rock, AR has plead guilty to stealing a car and intentionally running down three joggers. None of the joggers were seriously injured, so feel free to crack jokes in the comments without guilt. I cracked so ...
Schmame Over Episode 6: Harmless Japanese Pornography
Due to Adam being unable to manage his time properly, it’s a duo podcast this week. Fun! Listen as Patrick and Joshua spend more time extolling the virtues of Monster Hunter, and spending far too much time talking about a genre of games practically everyone thinks ...
Microsoft Confirms Next-Gen Reveal
So much hearsay. So much speculation. So much nerd rage. Finally, Microsoft has confirmed that it will reveal the XBox 720 (Durango, FuckBox, whatever you want to call it) on May 21st. That’s a Tuesday for all of you calendar-deprived people. The reveal will take ...