A shorter than usual Comics Are Expensive this week due to lack of funds and books I haven’t already talked about, but what is there is still pretty fun. Next week’s column should be a whole mess of new books for the talking about, so if there’s anything I should be reading that hasn’t been [...]
Writer of High Moon and international incident David Gallaher dropped a line this morning to let me know that Bible Fight has made the hallowed front page of Neatorama. Which is totally awesome. Also awesome is site vectorvault running a contest based around the game. Take a screenshot of your high score once you reach [...]
A mixed bag this week, as only a couple of these can be lumped in with the various gaming curios I usually link to here. The rest are more research for That Next Thing I haven’t had a chance to talk about further, and while all great in their own right may not be as [...]
This column didn’t turn out exactly as intended. The original plan was to use this week’s piece to go over all the books I’m currently reading with a Draconian eye, switching to trades on some and dropping others entirely in the name of cutting out the chaff. With all the new things I’ve started reading [...]
03.11What’s Next
It probably wasn’t terribly clear (particularly as my methods of thinking out loud are baffling and needlessly complex even to me), but there was a theme to nearly all of last week’s posts: “working stuff outâ€. Deciding what to do with the restless frustration that keeps me moving from game to game, considering what can [...]
Garage Games have always had a restless quality about them that’s usually worth watching – since coming into being in 2000, they’ve worn (and continue to wear) all manner of hats, including developer of game dev middleware, a casual/indy game publisher, and a development house cranking out their own quirky and fun titles. As a [...]
Somehow or another I’ve managed to fix the site, so direct linking to posts (and comments, which were also apparently broken) should now work. Cue rapturous applause, parades in the streets, and statues dedicated to my ability to copy and paste bits of code until things magically work.
Busy Wednesday for comics this week, making the new Comics Are Expensive the longest one yet. So long, in fact, that there’s wasn’t room for whole lumbering colossus of text, and the “Quick Bits”, the paragraph reviews introduced last week to cover all the other stuff I’m reading besides the three or four titles getting [...]
Ah, Friday. And with it, links: One of the most interesting details regarding the forthcoming PC-version of Assassin’s Creed was the promise of new pre-kill missions you could perform. The utter lack of variety in these missions (which make up the vast majority of gameplay) were one of several problems I mentioned a while back, [...]
A very busy week this time around, leading to a much longer column than I’d originally intended. Also, a confession: I went over my spending limit of $30 this week after finding the second and third trades (also known as the Good Ones) of Joe Casey and Sean Phillips’ Wildcats runs for $3.99 a pop. [...]