Another somewhat long one, 8:30. Shot like the series of “making of” interviews previewing… George Lucas directiong Lord of the Rings.
Archives for 2006
Inq. of the Week: Girl Gamers
Getting right to the question this week: Should Girl Gamers really be treated so differently? Via Game|Life I saw this Gamestop display that seemed to really get their tights in a knot, and I began to wonder, how bad of an idea is this really? Certainly placing it right at the door to the store […]
Review: Oryx and Crake
Title: Oryx and Crake Author: Margaret Atwood Year of Publication: 2003 Genre: Science Fiction/Fiction Length: The paperback version has 443 pages. Rating: 4/5 – Worth paying full price. Review: Oryx and Crake is one of two novels that I have read by Margaret Atwood that are about a utopian future turned to dystopia, the other […]
Geekery Collision / Brainstorming from constraints
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” […]
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 […]
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