When I first heard about Gametap, I thought that it would be a horrible idea. Real crash and burn type stuff. It's a service that allows the user to download and play old games from the Atari era up till the present on their computer. Essentially, it hopes to replace your collection of old systems and games. I'm a fairly avid gamer: I've got the old Nintendo 64, my Playstation, my S...

I know what you're thinking--why on earth would I review a bar of soap? After all, soap is a highly personal item. Some people like a little fragrance, other people don't. Others put value on color, or the aesthetic value of the unused bar itself. I happen to believe that the latter is raather silly, but to each his own, right? Wrong. Prior to trying this soap, my only previou...

I'm one of those people who really enjoys the tactile stimulation of writing. When I'm in class, I'll often doodle if there's nothing to be written down because I simply love the soft scratching of pen upon paper(I'm a legal pad fan, myself). I've used a variety of pens in my lifetime: ballpoints, gels, you name it. This past summer, I had the opportunity to enjoy a foun...

A printer is arguably one of the most important pieces of equipment a college student can have. Conservative scientists estimate that if every college student stopped printing things, we could stop global warming in about twenty minutes. That's not true, but my first point still stands: a good, solid printer is all but essential in a modern college setting. It certainly beats waiting in lin...

So I recently got a new phone (Merry Thanksgiving, I suppose. The gift giving season just grows every year, doesn't it?), and the first thing I decided to do was go ahead and review it for the lovely ladies and gentlemen here at Shared Reviews. First things first, I received the red colored version, and I'm absolutely in love with the color. It's got just a tad bit of a metallic she...

Three ones and a five, and my overall rating is a 4.5? I'm not schizophrenic, I swear. Rather, this is what happens when a watchmaker provides a really high quality product. I first purchased this old boy about 5 years ago in a WalMart because I wanted a watch. It was the cool thing at the time, I suppose. Unfortunately, my untrained eye picked out this five dollar monstrosity. A blue fabri...

When I saw Saints Row sitting on the shelf in Gamestop, my first thought wasn't "I must have this game". I'll admit to being a cover-judger. I look at the cover of a game first, and if that doesn't grab my attention, I most likely won't give the game a chance. It's an expensive hobby, and I don't like wasting my money on chumps. Luckily, I had heard that Saints...

For a launch title, or close to it, Dead Rising is an amazing game. It suprises me that we haven't seen more games of the "survive against zombies" genre, but hopefully, the success of Dead Rising will change that. First off, the game is gorgeous. The character designs fluctuate between cartoony and kind of anime-ish, but it hardly matters when there are upwards of two hundred zom...

Sometimes, I worry about the future of gaming. It seems like every year all we get are the same old games, reegurgitated for the latest generation of hardware. It's games like Mount and Blade that allay my fears. The setting is a realistic medieval world.(Who would have thought?) In Mount and Blade, you're free to play as whatever you want, be it a bandit, hero, trader, or anything you ...