Published works by Blake Snow

Published works: May 2009

Blake Snow — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:00:45 +0000

Excluding short new and blog posts. MSNBC: Top 5 video game heroines your mother would approve MSNBC: Top 5 underrated Nintendo DS games MSNBC: Top 5 hardest NES games MSNBC: Top 5 most wanted E3 games GamePro: Review—Dell’s most popular gaming PC (print only) Show Daily: The official magazine of E3—multiple feature stories and reporting (print only)

Published works: April 2009

Blake Snow — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:54:13 +0000

Excluding short articles and blog posts not on Smooth Harold: MSNBC: Top 5 baseball video games G4 TV: Can Wii be a primary gaming system? MSNBC: Top 5 greatest video game icons GamePro: PS2 price cut was right for PS3’s future MSNBC: Top 5 most wanted Virtual Console games MSNBC: Top 5 reasons to pass on the DSi GigaOM: Are [...]

Published works: March 2009

Blake Snow — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:19:26 +0000

Excluding short news articles and blog posts: Game Pro: Long live the PlayStation 2 MSNBC: Top 5 Sega games Ars Technica: A game you don’t care about but probably should MSNBC: Top 5 bodacious video game guns Ars: It’s personal: Gamers favor local multiplayer to online Ars: Realistic audio has us pinning for bleeps and blips of yesteryear MSNBC: Top 5 video [...]

Published works: February 2009

Blake Snow — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:32:01 +0000

MSNBC: Top 5 short-but-sweet video games. To coincide with the start of the shortest month of the year (you know, February), here’s a look at the five best games that also happen to have lean single-player stories. MSNBC: Top 5 games to play with your squeeze. Instead of trying to rekindle the flame over a flat [...]

A trio of new stories for MSNBC and Venture Beat

Blake Snow — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:26:05 +0000

For video game pessimists and number crunchers, my latest: MSNBC: Top 5 things we hate about game consoles Sometimes, game consoles can really get in the way of playing games MSNBC: Top 5 things we love about game consoles We can demo, we can play online and best of all, we can play wirelessly Venture Beat: Wii on track to [...]

Beta is dead

Blake Snow — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:52:06 +0000

I’ll let you in on a little secret: Beta, that silly subhead you see on so many websites, has been dead for quite some time. It just took a while before someone came out and said it. Here’s my latest from GigaOM, also syndicated on CNN/Fortune, entitled “Beta is dead”: “Beta, as it pertains to web [...]

MSNBC: Top 5 games to bailout 2009

Blake Snow — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:13:09 +0000

For the nerds out there, my latest: “Your 401k is gone. The price of your home has crashed. Your paycheck is in doubt. Yeah, 2009 is shaping up to be a great year, thanks to the recession. But chin up, readers. With hard work, a little bit of luck, and a healthy dose of escapism, [...]

Gamasutra: Sony’s Home - The Launch Aftermath

Blake Snow — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:01:46 +0000

My latest: “PlayStation Home for the PlayStation 3 launched on Dec. 11, more than a year after the virtual world was first promised. The general online reaction to the free PS3 service? To put it lightly, boring, as shown by a scathing Penny Arcade cartoon on the service. “So why would gamers, the overwhelming group of [...]

MSNBC: Best Xbox 360 games of ‘08

Blake Snow — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:04:37 +0000

My latest: “First, the bad news. The dreaded “Red Ring of Death” continues to plague Xbox 360 owners. Some reports have put the failure rate of the console at one-third. It’s a bummer, because there are so many great games. “The good news — provided you’re in the lucky majority with a valid warranty — was [...]

Sore Thumbs: The trouble with game of the year awards

Blake Snow — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:48:29 +0000

Here’s my latest nerd minutia article, on the subject of video game of the year awards: Since becoming a full-time critic three years ago, I’ve been involved in selecting several game of the year awards, the summa cum laude of video game honors. As a newbie, I was surprised to learn that voters are rarely, if [...]