Remember, I like me some SPOILERS!
What is a Good Game Anyway?
This past week, aside from dealing with massive web-related headaches, I managed to re-read Raph Koster’s excellent presentation from the 2005 Game Developer’s Conference. Any serious student of games owes it to themselves to take a look through. It’s witty, it’s fairly accesible, and it avoids being dry like many academic studies on the subject. […]
Burning Regions and Wasted Content
WoW Insider has a nice article about what the (pre-expansion) instance bosses are up to now that they have become in almost all senses useless and unneccesary, and they offer up some basic suggestions for Blizzard to make them relevant again. It is really a huge shame that the end-game content millions of people have […]
Spoils to the Traveler
I speak to you now on a laptop, in front of a dormant desktop monitor, that is currently piggybacking off of a generous (read: ignorant) neighbor’s wireless. There is a mug of milk laden with oreo residue to my left, and a distraught/disorganized mid-unpacking catastrophe desk beneath it all. Our internet evolves sometime at the […]
YouTube of the Week: "D&D has pie. Does WoW have pie?" Edition
A fake quasi-documentary that looks at D&D players. Though very amateurish, it has some pretty funny moments that make us look weirder than we already are.
Inq. of the Week: Casting Call
Following up on last week’s news that Game of Thrones will be adapted to an HBO series, we ask the question: Of the upcoming adaptations of books and comics to tv shows or movies, who would you like to see cast in one of these projects? Some of these announced but uncast adaptations are listed […]
Do Push Your Luck
The aptly named Can’t Stop is the defining game of the “Push Your Luck” genre. These type of games tend to be typified by one decision: go on, or crash? The absolute simplest push your luck game I have heard called Pig. You take a 6 sided die. Roll it. If it is a 1-5, […]
All Glory to the Anime Hypnotoad!
According to THE BEAT, the artist who posted her work online turning The Simpsons and Futurama into manga-style got herself signed to a deal with the makers of The Simpsons comics… and may get to work on the upcoming Futurama series. Now THAT is an Internet success story. Though it comes from the often-not-accurate Ain’t […]
52 #37: I Take It All Back, DC
Warning: Herein I am spoiling the complete issue of DC’s 52 issue 37. It’s, in my opinion, the best issue of the series so far with a few shocking revelations. If you want to enjoy them for yourself, do not read any further. If you don’t follow 52 and want to find out what happens, […]
The Flagellation of the Artist
Really the end of a series here, recounting my New Years Resolutions, there was actually a discussion with Abekkus (Abe for short, though that’s not his name…) about precisely how self-referential this should get. I decided to keep it on the mild side and go with a tastey quote for your taste buds. Bonus points to […]
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