Gruel's Game-a-Thon

-Greetings! This month I will be discussing this past month of what I have been reading and playing for November!

-A few days ago I finished the first Gears of War novel, Aspho Fields. It has two alternating storylines, one set before the games during the often referenced Pendulum Wars, and the other between Gears of War 1 and 2. I started reading it before Gears 3, and luckily I did because it shed some background and involved two minor background characters in Gears 3: Bernie and ...

-As a promised several days ago, here is my belated Midwest Gaming Classic 2011 blog. We left early Thursday morning last week. I took an extra day off for the vacation so I could adapt to a normal sleeping schedule for the vacation and not end up getting some odd hours of sleep in the first day of it like I did the past couple years. Also breaking up the drive this year helped tremendously. Joey and I rode with Chris & Lyzz in their Honda SUV, which was a lot roomier and more comfortable than ...

Wuddup VGe---....err I mean Retroids, thought I would throw up a quick rundown of this year's MGC loot haul, expect my usual, long-winded, detailed rundown of MGC hopefully within a few days!

A GBA SP w/charger (for only $20!!!)

Kirby's Pinball Land on GB

Tecmo Super Bowl 2010 NES (yes, it exists.....kind of!)

Need for Speed on 3DO (the original NFS game!!!)

3 Japanese Famicom Games - Mighty Final Fight, some top down racing ...

2010 marked the first year On Tap participated in Extra Life, the fund raiser many VGevo Podcast Network members participate in each year. We planned it out that we were going to be recording at Chris & Lyzz’s place for the 24 hour epic event. After spending way too much time packing a ton of games I made haste to Chris & Lyzz’s. So without further ado, here is the rundown of what we played.

I started off with my favorite wrestling game, WWF No Mercy on N64. I attempted ...

-Been awhile since I updated this blog, so I thought I would update everyone on my latest gaming progress and what has been going on with On Tap lately.

-So since around the time of my last blog, I noticed my Internet speeds starting to dip. Pages would take slightly longer to load, but more noticeably streaming videos on Youtube, Netflix, etc. would take incredibly longer, or not load at all. After about five weeks of this I called our local cable provider to have them check it ...