Author Archives: Roo
Echo Screen Live #24: Star Trek Megacast! (5/15/13)
Chat with us live every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 9PM Eastern! A new Star Trek movie hits theaters this weekend, so what better time for a multi-pronged debate on the franchise? Who’s the best captain? How has JJ Abrams handled the series? How does the new Star Trek compare to older [...]
Echo Screen Live #23: The Future of Adventure Games (5/1/13)
Chat with us live every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 9PM Eastern! With the recent closing of Lucasarts – one of the pioneers of adventure gaming – now seems a great time to look back on the genre and see how much of a future it has. Is Lucasarts’s end an omen, [...]
Indie Games Searchlight: To the Moon
Mark Carr of Indie Games Searchlight shines the light on a great independent game that I recently tried out and absolutely loved – To the Moon. In reality, more of an interactive story, To the Moon is one of the greatest examples I’ve seen in the Pro-”Are Games Art” debate… but I digress. Watch the [...]
Echo Screen Live #22: DRM - Is it Really That Bad? (3/6/13)
Chat with us live every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 9PM Eastern! Unable to log into SimCity’s servers and play your single player game? Then hop on by the Echo Screen Live, where we’ll talk about the increasing specter of DRM and how much it’s really handicapping our gaming experiences. But please but [...]
Echo Screen Live #21: The Death of Video Games as we know it? (2/...
Chat with us live right here every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 9PM Eastern! Note: This stream was originally scheduled for February 6th, but is now set for February 20. In which we dissect analysis by Michael Pachter stating that the game industry is evolving, and the closing of companies like THQ, Junction Point, [...]
Important Announcement
Hello all, Many apologies for my absence in the past few weeks, but I have a lot to attend to right now. As a private person by nature, I’ll just leave things at that. However, the result is that I’ll be away from online responsibilities for the next few weeks. This includes work on videos for CotGW, [...]
Echo Screen Live #20: The Legacy of Tolkien (1/16/13)
Chat with us live every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 9PM Eastern! With the release of The Hobbit on the big screen, we ring in the new year to discuss the ongoing legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien, from books, to movies, to games. Plus – News tids and bits from CES!
Retroware (& Roo) at MAGfest 2013
Roo and virtually all of Retroware will be at MAGfest soon! January 3-6, 2013 at the Gaylord National Hotel in National Harbor, MD (near Washington, D.C.) Bring your rare video games to be appraised at the Retrogame Roadshow! Email a description of your item to johnd@retrowaretv.com to be included. Visit magfest.org for more information
Echo Screen Live #19: 2012 Year in Review (12/19/12)
Join us every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 9PM Eastern! It’s the last Echo Screen Live of the year, and you know what that means – obligatory navel gazing! Join us as we talk 2012, 2013, and the successful Super Nintendo charity marathon.
4th Annual CotGW Charity Gaming Marathon: 3 Days of SNES
UPDATE: Thanks to all of your generous donations and efforts, we were able to meet our goal and raise over $20,000 for the V Foundation for Cancer Research – a goal that even we though might be too hopeful. But luckily, you have all joined together to not only do real good in the world, but [...]