Tuesday, December 29, 2009
I have this on again, off again relationship with any game that features the Role Playing Game genre.
While I do like the stories, it’s quite often that I’ll get about 14 hours in before I find that I’m no longer engaged, and the gameplay isn’t enough for me to continue.
This has happened to me across [...]
Dear EA (and other developers),
I was having dinner with a friend of mine and we were discussing how much fun we have playing Rock Band (Lots of fun!) with the Rock Band Stage Kit (Lots more fun!).
While I was on the subject of Dead Space, he suggested that EA should support it as another peripheral.
Please, [...]
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
If you ever really, really need to know when a video game is going to be released.
No, if you really need to know. Head over to VGReleases.com. They will know.
I have a box of books from my mother here, and it’s mostly filled with Choose Your Own Adventure books. They’re really interesting, mainly because they’re written in the second person. That is, they always address, “you.”
Which is of course, similar to how Interactive Fiction has to be written. They are games, in a way, [...]
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
The Nintendo DS is not considered a musical instrument.
There are music games, yes, and there was the brilliant in concept but flawed in execution Jam Sessions guitar simulator for the DS. (Full disclosure: I spent about two weeks just trying to play Jonathan Coulton’s RE: Your Brains. It’s just too unwieldy on a directional control [...]
In a pretty strange move, Sony is recommending that retailers break street date for Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction. Which is great news for me because this was one of the games I was actually looking forward to. Nice to see them do something right for a change.
Thank you, I’m here ’til Friday.
But with [...]
Well, another day passes. At the state department, you have no privacy. It says so when you log in in the morning. It’s interesting, although I never thought I’d be working for the government this. . . well, deep. Friend of mine called me ‘Mulder’ jokingly, although I am located in the basement of the [...]