Aside from minor dalliances smashing cars in to retainer walls and liberating Viking cities,the vast majority of my game playing lately has been spent restoring peace and hope a neighborhood at a time to the good citizens of Chroma City, which currently suffers under the cruel and colorless regime of Comrade Black and the INKT [...]
Two fantastic surprises to report:
1) The PS3 is good for something.
2) A teaser trailer for Bioshock 2: The Sea of Dreams is an unlockable tucked away on the version of the game recently released for the thing.
Obviously, this is the best news of the day. After watching, I would swear the air smelled [...]
UK-based games journalist Tom Francis is easily one of my favorite people who make their living talking up electronic entertainment simulations. His dairy of an epic playthrough of GalCiv 2 spread out over twenty days was one of the most well-written and entertaining pieces on games I read last year. A lovely balance [...]
For you, a (somewhat off center) video:
The feeling of living inside a gigantic, beautifully complex machine of interlocking parts and the dizzy sense of scale that comes with it is pretty much how I feel every time I try to wrap my head around the thinking behind the level design in, say, Mario Galaxy.
At Nintendo’s big media conference last week, the biggest news (yes, even bigger than the cell-shaded return of Punchout!! for the Wii) was official confirmation of the much-rumored new DS model, called the DSi. It looks a little something like this:
That black circle on the back is a 3 megapixel camera. There’s another [...]
Continuing the grand tradition of posting Team Fortress 2 videos ages after they first appear on your magical entertainment tubes, here’s the latest introduction to Valve’s wonderful testament to violently slaughtering others through the power of team work: Meet The Sandwich.
Not so much playable as edible, the sandwich is yet another of the new [...]
And finally, on the last day of camp, we all learn a very important lesson about being true to ourselves and come to terms with the bittersweet death of childhood innocence as Becky Johnson and Samuel Teshterberger are caught together in the old haunted boat house.
Excite Truck (Wii)
Nearly two years after it debuted as a [...]