John-Michael Del Valle’s Blog

I wrote an article about the NEED for split screen games. Now to tackle Co-op play. One of my favorite games as a child on the Sega Genesis was Golden Ax. Tons of memories playing that with my cousin and using all sorts magic in the game. Not to mention it allowed for two player […]

Ever since Nikki came back from the party at Tampa, she’s wanted Lego’s. Sure enough during the week we took an adventure to Target to pick up some Lego’s. In the process she bought some World of Warcraft The Card Game Booster Pack. Lately we’ve been in geek mode and totally getting into this stuff. […]

Four person split screen with Bots
Alright I’m a huge fan of gaming. My biggest issue with the latest generation of consoles is the lack of offline play. There have been huge debates of having online friends to play games and if they are ‘real’ friends. Who cares?! What counts is when you have friends over […]

Lately I’ve wanted to pick up so many games and play them. Not to mention write up a review for them to let you guys know how well I think it is. Honestly though some games seem like they’d take up so much time and not be able to play all of them.
The games I’m […]

Nikki has come up with the idea for Beer Thursdays. It helps make the week-end seem much longer. We cleaned up the place up a bit and invited some people over. Since we are a little out of the way and on such short notice. Gomez and Zuli were the only guest. We ordered some […]

I’ve seen so many blogs post about the new firmware upgrade coming to the Playstation 3 which adds DTS-MA support not explain what this means. Hopefully I’ll make this a clear as possible for people who don’t know much about audio.
There are two different ways the PS3 sends audio: Bitstream or PCM.
There are two main […]