The latest Comics Are Expensive is up at Occasional Superheroine for your reading pleasure. Largely a good week for books, with the one major disappointment coming from the last place I expected (and the book I thought would be kind of crap turning out to be rather great).
David Finkel, co-executive producer of 30 Rock (and therefore one of the greatest living Americans of our generation) has written a rather great justification of Guitar Hero and Rock Band for What They Play, a site intended to give parents an understanding of the games their children and help them find more games to enjoy. [...]
This week’s installment of Comics Are Expensive is a little smaller than intended – the Wednesday before payday is never kind to new books, and I just couldn’t swing the $14.99 to pick up the second TPB of Mike Carey’s Crossing Midnight. I plan on making up for it next week, though, and with any [...]
4. Achievement For Beating Up Women Speaking of the annoying beggar women and the limited means available for handling them, as I was yesterday – throw them to the ground enough times in the 360 version, and you unlock one of the game’s special achievements worth a handful of gamerpoints. Really, Ubisoft? Rewarding players for [...]
This week’s games are a little more complex than the usual Monday Flash fare, swapping twitch-based gameplay and the thrill of running over prehistoric predators for a bit of strategy and tactical thinking. They might take a bit longer than normal to fully get the hang of, but that’s all right. Since at least one [...]
WordPress has been acting up a bit lately, first swallowing up last Friday’s Link Roundup (though it’s possible I might have done something to cause that one) and then losing last night’s Monday Flash post when it chose the exact moment I hit “Publish” to crash horribly. Clearly I’m going to have to start writing [...]
1. Horrible Enemy A.I I understand there’s a lot going on in Assassin’s Creed. It’s vast world is full of places to go and things to see, including the dull home base you’re sent back to after each mission, three fully realized and beautiful cities teeming with life and things to climb on, and the [...]
02.08Comics Are Expensive
The rather ace Valerie D’Orazio of comics site Occasional Superheroine asked me a couple of weeks ago if I’d be interested in doing a weekly column for her site. Always happy to have a new venue to assault the masses with my particular brand of cretinizing, I naturally said yes. Comics Are Expensive is a [...]
I’m not good with money. Well, that’s a matter of perspective. There’s a way of looking at things where I’m fantastic with money, only it’s the “getting it as far away from me as possible” way. This becomes a problem when it comes time to acquire little things like nourishment and shelter. I have a [...]
02.05Mid-Core Manifesto
Games site 8bit Rocket have posted a bit of a manifesto outlining what they see as the ground level needs for their newly christened demographic of players. It’s a bit rough, and some points – #2 in particular – seem to point at a complete lack of understanding for how games are actually made, while [...]