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Joey Arone

Home Town: Home? I'm in Austin, TX for now
Sports: Football, Hockey, Golf, NASCAR, Winter Olympics (yes even curling), Does DOA Volleyball count? , Horse Racing
Games: Head Coach 06/09, Tiger Woods, Civilization, Socom (waiting with bated breath for PS3 release), Aerobiz, probably Spore, but haven't bought it yet, SimCity, SimEarth, SimFarm, Anything by EA for the sports I like, KOEI Winning Post, KOEI Romance of the Th
Teams: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Los Angeles Kings, 11 Denny Hamlin (Joe Gibbs Racing of course), and starting next year Texas Longhorns although oddly enough, I've never followed college football very closely. Craig Stadler, Tiger Woods, Did I tell you I got to mee
OS Username: OS: SloeyEZ
Tags: PS3: SloeyEZ
Thursday, December 11, 2008
SportSims Online Fantasy Football Review
11:58 AM - December 11, 2008. Posted by RaychelSnr. Written by Joey Arone
SOCOM: Confrontation. That may be an odd way to start off a review about an online football text sim, but if you have played Confrontation then you may understand my point when I get to it. For those of you that have not played it, SOCOM: Confrontation is a Playstation 3 squad-based objective-driven military shooter.

Do not yawn. The difference is that you are chatting with the players on your squad. Plus, when you have stuck your hand in a pile of goo that was once your teammate’s virtual self, you build a camaraderie, start discussing strategies and develop teamwork.

Read More - SimSports Online Fantasy Football Review

Platform: PC
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Sliders: I Don't Get It
09:17 PM - October 16, 2008. Posted by RaychelSnr. Written by Joey Arone
Some things in life are never meant to make sense. For our own Joey Arone, the obsession with sliders has never made sense to him. Be sure to read Joey's take in his article, Sliders: I Don't Get It, and then leave him some feedback!

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"I guess I just do not get it. Where does this incessant obsessive-compulsive need to fiddle with a bunch of sliders come from? Why are sliders mostly only in sports games and not other games? Why are sliders taken as seriously as politics and religion when it comes to some people?"

Monday, October 13, 2008
To Cheat or Not To Cheat
04:23 PM - October 13, 2008. Posted by RaychelSnr. Written by Joey Arone
Joey Arone checks in today with a topic many people just brush off in the community: the use of strategy guides and the evolution of gaming manuals. Check out Joey's thoughts on this phenomenon and how companies can improve the product in his article To Cheat or Not to Cheat.

Quote:
"I hate to admit to myself, much less anybody else, but I do believe I am old school. I am old school when it comes to the wonderful world of strategy guides.

Again, I hate to admit to myself much less anybody else, but I guess I am an old codger now who can spew frontier gibberish when my dander is aroused by these young whippersnappers today. In print, it would look something like, "Firkin frick frak young whippersnappers n riggamarole laziness usin sum rootin-tootin fancy book learnin to jebediah and howard johnson straight through cheatin n I oughta with a switch n take them frikin fudgmalickin babies cheatin playin a confalutin game." Well you get the picture. I feel rather strongly about how easy it is for most gamers today to pick up the strategy guide and read, step-by-step, how to play the game."

Game: NFL Head Coach 09Reader Score: 8/10 - Vote Now
Platform: PS3 / Xbox 360Votes: 64 - View All
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Dans La Cuisine, Part Un!
11:02 AM - October 1, 2008. Posted by RaychelSnr. Written by Joey Arone
Joey Arone checks in today with an article that is part french cooking show, part sports gaming and part something else we can't quite put our fingers on. We recommend you check Dans La Cuisine, Part Un out and try to figure it out for yourself.

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"Welcome, aujourd’hui (today) in my kitchen we are going to prepare a gastronome masterpieeece. A feast worthy of you, the greatest sports gamers of the world, a delectable, delicious, dining debacle -- no not debacle, pardon moi, I mean, how do you say, extraordinaire experience?"

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Sometimes Truth is Stranger than Fiction
10:40 AM - September 24, 2008. Posted by RaychelSnr. Written by Joey Arone
What happens when your back rushes for 300 yards in Madden? Better yet, what happens when you score 70 points on successive nights with Kobe Bryant in NBA 2K8? Do you feel you have done something in the game that could never happen in the real world? Joey Arone checks in today with his first article discussing sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction.

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"In the standardized world of the NFL, when head coach Mike Shanahan of the Denver Broncos bucked convention and went for the win by attempting the two-point conversion instead of going for the tie, there was a collective gasp across the sports announcing and viewing nation. That’s what happens when conventional wisdom is pushed aside by free will, when the unexpected happens, when truth is stranger than fiction."