Again it happens?!

Yes, Virginia, there is inconsistency! I'll be pushing Evolution Of Gaming back again for a couple reasons. But before I explain why I would like to thank everyone on the site and the readers for riding with me on my schizophrenic article tour. I plan out all of these article and then other ideas pop up or something else comes up that I feel is relevant and want to mention. The Team Fortress 2 series should have already been done, but it's an editorial not an article about news so I feel that it's okay that it is being pushed back. No one is relying on me to bring them up to date Team Fortress 2 news. But up to date new is one reason I'm pushing the article back to an undisclosed time slot. There's been many rumors, many that I believe with some facts to help support, that TF2 will be getting a large update in the next few days or week. So if I write the article now and it goes out on the Friday the 17th and the update happens to be the same day I wont be able include it in the article. I know you might wonder why one update would matter to the article, but if the rumors are true it'll be our first "winter" or "Christmas" update which I would consider to be apart of the games three year evolution. (The update was released on the 17th which is one of the reasons this article is now late the other being a day trip to Seattle) So what am I going to do this week? How about Holidays games?! And no I don't mean another holiday buy guide. Though I could list the games everyone should buy for moi.

Not a lot of holiday themed games exist on mass market consoles, and understandably so. Most video games take a long time to program and market and need to have a large payoff quick. The first week of a games release is one of the most important periods. A company finds out if the money they poured in to marketing is going to pay off or if gamers were interested in their product. Also if you tie your game to a specific holiday it's hard to keep buyers interest after the specific holiday. Movies have an advantage in this area as an entire family can partake in the viewing of a movie without taking turns and movies are easily updated to the next format such as VHS to DVD and DVD to Beta Max and continue to create revenue each season. Video games did not have the leisure of being able to be ported to the newest system easily until the last few years and still have a lucrative market via digital downloads. Which is one of the biggest reasons I feel mass market consoles don't have many holiday games aside from Disney's award winning A Christmas Carol on DS and Elf Bowling on the Wii.

I know that there are many many holiday themed games on the internets, mainly in the form of flash, such as this one on I-mockery.com, which is one of my favorite. But for the most part they blow chunks. So this week I'll be presenting holiday themed "games" from the mid-80's till now. Now don't go asking Santa for these classics, not even his craft elves can make these fake classics.

Tomorrow, Monday Dec. 20th, I'll be presenting Silent Night Deadly Night for the Atari 2600.