The Berger Bits

Hey! I didn’t skip it this time, but I really need to stop recording these shows late at night.  Netflix streams in 4K while streaming prices are expected to rise, Frozen becomes the highest grossing animated film ever, Spider-Man 2 is off to a great start overseas, the final X-Men trailer is released, Peter Laird (co-creator of […]

The news that Facebook (of all places) bought Oculus VR sent a shock wave throughout the Internet, particularly the gaming community. Condemnation, anger, ambivalence, confusion, and rage echoed around the world. The only people who seemed to be genuinely happy with this are Mark Zuckerberg, Palmer Luckey, and John Carmack. I know I’m not happy with […]

(tl;dr version – This game looks amazing in 3D, but you need a PC and an NVIDIA card!) As a major 3D proponent, I’ve argued that one of the places where the option for 3D should be dominant is in video games. Most games are coded in 3D space anyway (x,y, and z calculations) even […]

As a proud first-generation gamer, being someone who has been gaming since the Golden Age in the mid-1980s, hearing about problems in the gaming industry is always disheartening. The gaming industry is very competitive. A lot of good studios are spending a lot of time and money fighting for our hard-earned dollars. Many are successful […]

Here I sit with a new, launch-day PlayStation 4. I have had none of the problems that a few people have supposedly been having. The blue light of death and the red line of death have thus far been absent. Standing proudly next to my PS2-emulation PS3 (with a recently-upgraded 500 GB hard drive), the […]

Yesterday Sony announced an updated blog entry/FAQ regarding the upcoming launch of the PlayStation 4.  As is typical for the Internet, knee-jerk reactions abounded with complaints about functionality that will be “missing” from the PlayStation 4 at launch, such as support for external hard drives to expand primary storage, DLNA, and MP3 and audio CD […]

I absolutely love Grand Theft Auto V. The world of Los Santos is massive and has so much detail that I spent the first few hours driving, flying, and biking around the map, doing nothing more than soaking in the gorgeous detail of the environment. The three protagonists actually have compelling stories, even though I […]

The recent reversal of Microsoft’s policies regarding the Xbox One have brought to light once again the whole issue of used games and whether used games hurt developers as well as issues regarding online passes and to a much lesser extent downloadble content. Used games are generally a binary issue: people either love them or […]

So far, I’ve been having fun with my Ouya, as much as I can anyway. I’m not really into 8-bit platformers anymore because the indie scene has become saturated with them. Unfortunately, those constitute the majority of games that are currently available for the Ouya.  Still, games like Shadowgun and applications like Plex help to keep my Ouya […]

Microsoft today reversed their highly-defended position of daily check-ins and severely restrictive used games policies on the Xbox One today. Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has been getting pummeled on several fronts. Probably the most famous among my fellow gamers is the thrashing that was delivered by Sony during E3.  However, mainstream USA got a […]