The trouble with wanting to talk about videogames on the internet is you have actually stop playing them long enough to do so. Take for instance Fable 2, a truly great game that I managed to happily play for fourteen hours straight one weekend (not something I normally do) and could not shut up about [...]
10.20INKT Uber Alles
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 [...]
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 of personal [...]
10.06The New Hotness
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 one [...]
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 [...]
In which the councilor’s cabin is struck with a mysterious case of the mumps, threatening to cancel the camp’s big End of Season musical, until I rally the other campers for an all-singing, all-dancing lesson about how lying really hurts that we’d never forget. Or maybe I just talk about games some more. Sid Meir’s [...]
So summer was fun. In amidst the rather extreme life changes, super busy work schedules (how was your June? Mine was a whirlwind of milestones, client meetings, script writing, no days off, and a trip to Canada to sit in a dark room and watch little girls play my game through a two-way mirror), moving [...]
06.03Life With Wii Fit
So this Wii Fit thing. What’s that all about then? I picked one up from the Nintendo World store in Rockefeller Center on launch day, and after using it nine of the nearly fourteen days since bringing it home (four days missed due to being lazy, one to pulling some part of my foot out [...]
Last weekend’s New York Comic Con was my first big convention thing (a visit to MoCCA shortly after moving here hardly compares), and all things considered I don’t think I could have asked for a nicer introduction the particular brand of insanity these things become the focal point for. The Girlfriend and I went all [...]
After yesterday’s post about my issues with the Grand Theft Auto series and wondering aloud what sort of plans Rockstar had for how players can interact with the rather beautiful version of New York City they’ve created in the next installment, it was rather helpful to read to the end of Edge’s monstrous cover feature [...]