About
In brief, two guys and a robot gives you:
- A guide to cheap games that don’t suck.
- A regular, brief report of what’s going on in gaming.
Here’s the longer story:
The gaming industry suffers from a horrific, competitive publishing cycle. Professional-level games take hundreds of thousands of man-hours and big money to produce. They hit the shelf (typically at $60 or so retail), have six weeks or less to prove themselves, and then, unless they succeed, get tossed aside for the newer, fresher, cooler stuff.
The winners take home sick, stupid money; I’m looking at you, Guitar Hero and World of Warcraft. The losers see their hard work rapidly fall into the bargain bin for $30, $20, $5…
It’s a tough industry, and it doesn’t show signs of getting less punishing any time soon.
For the consumers — that’s you! — there’s a bright side.
A good game remains a good game, despite its price. There are hundreds of recent titles, commercially produced and critically praised, that are available for $20 or less. The trick is that you have to remember to look. A game that was enjoying glowing press when it was $60 wanders the streets, drunk and alone, after it falls to $8.
That’s where we come along!
two guys and a robot will remind you of the exceptional titles that have fallen from grace. We’ll keep track of last Christmas’s ‘must haves;’ the classics that have, through no fault of their own, fallen on hard times; and the occasional great sale when a retailer lets a new title go for a significant break.
Sure, there are other ‘cheap games’ sites. But those guys will sell you any piece of trash, and they’ll dutifully alert you when that new $60 title is $56.95. We are committed to games at the intersection of good and cheap.
And the news bit?
There are a lot of gaming news sites — our favorites are listed below — but they seem to be targeted at people who have nothing better to do than to read every little twitch and dance in the ever expanding games industry. We’ll assume that you would like to know what’s going on — the hot announcements, the trends, the issues, the big releases — but that you have other things like you’d probably rather be doing (like playing games!). We promise a low noise, high content update of what’s happening in our favorite industry. Here’s a sample. We geek out, so you don’t have to.
Great (but intense) gaming news sites include: