The Carnival of Video Game Bloggers, June 2008

June 25th, 2008

Hello and welcome to the June edition of the Carnival of Video Game Bloggers! Due to technical trouble, this edition isn’t quite as eloquent as usual. You can rest assured that things will be back to normal next month, so don’t stop submitting those articles!

Let’s kick things off with an entry from the one and only David Herbert. Sigh.

David Herbert presents Games-News-Trainer Mechanic Will Appear In Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 posted at pariahs-guild.com.

In case you’re interested, there are another 75 (Seventy Five) entries from David Herbert. I certainly hope I don’t forget to include them…

Aury Glenz presents This Game Sucks: GTA IV Edition posted at Trash Flavored Trash.

Jaklar presents Age of Conan Launch Impressions - Good News, Bad News posted at InfoAddict.

96well presents [game] Mechanical turk for Science posted at Reportergene.

Redskyy presents Guitar Hero Increases the PR Pressure posted at media spec.

Harrison presents Top 10 Video Games of All Time posted at Watsonreview’s Weblog, saying, “Some of these games on this list might just surprise you”

old-wizard presents Top 5 Girls From Nintendo posted at Old-Wizard.com.

old-wizard presents Ask DestructoMaximo: May 29th, 2008 posted at Old-Wizard.com.

Anthony De Franco presents The 3rd String Safety: Nearly Perfect: A Review of Devil May Cry 4… posted at The 3rd String Safety, saying, “We are a blog focused on the interests of young men, including sports, MMA, television, and of course Video Games. We cover the hype and releases of many games in addition to reviews of any games we play.”

Aonxe presents Warhammer Online Guild System Heads Up posted at Aonxe, saying, “An interesting, in-depth article about the new game Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning and how their new revolutionary “living guild” system works.”

Fiona King presents Virtual Learning: 25 Best Sims and Games For the Classroom posted at College@Home.

JakeT presents Episode 1 “Roll it Gal” posted at Jak in the Box.

Meg presents Simpson’s Paradox » Blog Archive » Priorities posted at Simpson’s Paradox.

Matthew Boyd presents Sailing away with “Harpooned.” posted at Kwanzoo, saying, “Harpooned - A fine example of video games as rhetoric.”

Eclipse presents The Purpose of Video Game Reviews posted at Gaming My Way.

That’s it for June edition! Once the “Get your free PS3″ spam was sifted out, there were some fasnicating reads, so a big thank-you to all who sent something in. And sorry for not including all your entries David, but 75 is a little excessive!

Remember, anyone is welcome to join the carnival, so get typing and submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of video game bloggers using the carnival submission form.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on the blog carnival index page.

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The Carnival of Video Game Bloggers, May 2008

May 19th, 2008

I have no idea what the horses pulling this Carnival eat, but they certainly do get a spurt on. It hardly seems five minutes since I channelled David Herbert, yet here we are with yet more of the very finest articles the world of videogames has to offer. So scrub up and let’s dive into the guts of the games world.

First up it’s Eclipse with an insightful post on the oft-overlooked Music of Gaming. I agree that these days we’re seeing more focus on graphics, but I do think we’re seeing much more focus put into creating fantastic, high-quality audio - Bioshock certainly springs to mind, as does Super Mario Galaxy. More music like that, please!

Controversy-courting magician Old Wizard is up next. Now, I’m strongly tempted not to include his submission this month, but everyone’s entitled to their opinion, so here is Old Wizard’s Top 5 Worst Gaming Consoles of All Time. I normally enjoy your posts, but this time you have done my family a great disrespect.

Next up, FitBuff posts about the American release of Wii Fit, in Nintendo Wii Fit Release Date (Preorder Here Now!)”. I’ve had WiiFit for a few weeks now and it is every bit as fun as you can imagine, and I tend to finish my workouts with a distinct sweat on and muscle pains, although the same can be said about my legendary multiplayer Bomberman sessions.

With GTA IV still in everyone’s machines, Ashok is taking a look at the old games violence debate, but with a refreshingly sensible approach. Make sure you read the article Rethink.: The Purported Video Games and Violence Link is A Load of Nonsense, particularly for the blood-curdling link to orange juice.

A new blogger has entered the Carnival! Welcome to Creep Colony, who runs “The #1 StarCraft & Starcraft 2 tips/tricks source, providing the latest news, downloads, maps, bots, strategies & cheats.” This is surely a site that’s going to go from strength to strength as Blizzard release more news, so make sure to head over to Starcraft II Information immediately!

Old-wizard again. Top 10 Hardest Games. Still not forgiven.

A double whammy now from Amanda Harris, who posts a thought-provoking article about Internet safety before relaxing you again with some online Backgammon. You could do it the other way of course but I wouldn’t like to predict the effects. Allowing Your Children to Go Online with Video Games? and Relax with Some Online Backgammon are both posts at eFamilyBlogger. Thanks, Amanda!

Lots of new bloggers this month! The next submission speaks for itself, so it’s over to you, Blue Sunshine! “GTA4 is already under fire from one columnist, claiming that it deserves an “X rating” (not AO mind you). However, his willingness to jump to conclusions is unjustified due to the fact that he hasn’t even played the game. Also a humorous look at others who may complain about the game in the future.” I couldn’t have put it better myself. Grand Theft Auto 4 Already Causing Controversy is a corker.

Old Wizard. Top 5 Worst Video Game Related Websites of All Time. So much anger.

Alvaro Fernandez is here! I love you Alvaro. You make me feel enlightened yet humble at the same time. Exercise Your Brain in the Cognitive Age is a post about “Key questions on Brain Training that politicians, health policy makers, business leaders, educators and consumers should pay attention to.”

Now we have doublehack with Shadowbox 360 Review: Façade posted at DOUBLEHACK?!, saying, “Facade is a game featuring a Natural Language Processor, meaning it attempts to understand your normal speech. It’s impressive, but basically a novelty.” An interesting specimen to tackle doublehack - I approve!

My early favourite Eclipse rounds out this month’s Carnival with a post about my very most beloved Sonic the Hedgehog, with The Revival of Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic Unleashed is still looking amazing to me and I’m sure it’ll do brilliantly, and hopefully you all agree.

Thank you very much to everybody who submitted to this month’s Carnival - it was brilliant to see so many people contributing well-written and interesting articles on such a diverse range of topics. Don’t forget to submit for next month’s Carnival on the Carnival homepage, and come back next month for even more Carnival of Video Game Bloggers!

Oh, and we also have these from David Herbert…

See you next month!

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