Not much of a column this week. Between a fast-approaching finals season and various events at home, I’ve been pretty busy. One piece of news: two of my favorite things are colliding. Alan Moore is going to appear on The Simpsons. The episode is going to feature competition between Android’s Dungeon and a new, “cool” […]
Archives for November 2006
Lost Tales from the Dagobah System
I’ll begin this with an apology, I’ve had Star Wars stuck on the mind the last few days. The worst part is that it stems from an incomprehensible desire to watch Revenge of the Sith again. I really only ever saw it all the way through once, the first time in theaters, when a ooze […]
YouTube of the Week: Reasonable Zombie Edition
More for the awesome song than the WoW Machinima. If you enjoyed the song, I highly recommend checking out Jonathon Coulton’s site for this song and many other hilarious tunes.
Inq. of the Week: Horror of Horrors!
These days, more and more emphasis is being placed on the story within games. Back in the olden days, Link just wandered around the land and just happen to be given a sword by an old man. Nowadays he’s drawn into adventure, and it looks like its going to take 70 hours to finish this […]
Warhammer 40k Little Men (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
Ctrl+Alt+Del is a webcomic usually about video games, including the competitive aspect of it. It also features an Xbox robot! Their recent run, however, is about one of the characters trying to introduce his hardcore video gamer roommate to Warhammer 40k. One of my favorite exchanges from this: “These guys have chainsaw swords.” “This is […]
Going Critical on Final Fantasy XII
As some of you may know, Final Fantasy XII was released to North American audiences this past Tuesday. Although only having had barely five hours to actually play the game since then, this edition of Going Critical will be devoted to giving my initial reactions to these five hours with a full review of this […]
Dripping with Theme or Drowning in Theme?
Last week I talked about The Triangle of how to approach a game design. One of those points of the Triangle is “Theme.” But there are different ways of looking at what theme is, and if a game is well-themed or not. When people talk about theme, they’re generally talking about what is otherwise called […]
From the "WTF" department…
As reported on Ogrecave, Games Workshop has decided to shut down its official forums. They recommend typing the name of your favorite army into a search engine to find new ones. Of course, you won’t be able to find official answers to rules questions, or talk directly with game designers, or give feedback to anyone […]
Get it while the Gettin's good!
Apparently Valve and Steam are being quite generous, and I wanted to share it with everyone now so they have a chance to take advantage of it. For a limited time, between today and Sunday November 5th, you can log onto Steam and download the mod The Ship for free! We talked about it a […]
Quite the Predicament
Obviously when you are playing a game like World of Warcraft, it is all consuming to the level that it begins to invade the other aspects of your life. It was a joy, as I talk about back in that old post, to be playing with my (now wife) then girlfriend and hear her make […]
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