If you’ve watched any normal network tv channels lately, with the impending holiday season and the recent new console launches, you have also no doubt seen at least one commercial for what I call “videogame knockoffs for kids”. They’re even given elementary names, like the Leapster and the V-Smile, they’re made of brightly colored plastics […]
Review: His Dark Materials (a trilogy)
Title: His Dark Materials – Book One: The Golden Compass, Book Two: The Subtle Knife, Book Three: The Amber Spyglass Author: Philip Pullman Year of Publication: 1995 Genre: Fantasy Length: Each paperback book has between 335 and 465 pages. Rating: 4.5/5 – Worth paying full price. Review: His Dark Materials is a trilogy that should […]
Departures / Some Playtesting Principles
I just got my Wii flown in, and boy are my arms tired! No seriously, I’m sore. It’s probably due to going a bit nuts with Wii Sports Baseball, and having done a lot of lifting yesterday, but my right arm really does hurt. Still, so far, a lot of fun with the games. Apparently […]
Unused Nintendo Ad Campaign
YouTube of the Week: Super Hot Dog Eater Level 3 Edition
The best Saturday TV Funhouse I’ve seen in a long time. A parody of Dragonball Z starring the world champion hot dog eater, Kobayashi. Hilarious subbing on top of a great concept.
Inq. of the Week: Holiday Gift?
I now have learned, after a long ordeal, that the holiday shopping season now begins the weekend before Thanksgiving. I had hoped to use a Best Buy coupon that was valid only last weekend to purchase my Wii, but that failed for a few reasons. And Toys R Us was the busiest I’ve ever seen […]
Today's Experiment… Failed
If I had realized that Philcon was going to suck so much, I probably wouldn’t have gone. And if I had realized when I first agreed to go this year that the Wii launch was on the same weekend, I probably wouldn’t have gone. But as it stood, I ended up in Philadelphia, in unfamiliar […]
Talking Boars! (EXTRALIFE)
This weekend we are featuring what I consider to be the most creative AND consistently funny webcomics around, EXTRALIFE by Scott Johnson. The one in particular shown above is and excellent take on how things really work in the game World of Warcraft, and what boars really talk about in their spare time (between random […]
PS3 Violence
Just saw this story over on CNN. Apparently (not surprisingly) there have been a string of violent crimes over attempts to nab a PS3. Link to story Pretty damned ridiculous if you ask me!
Finally, some IMPORTANT terminology!
I’ve been reading and digging (as in enjoying, not the web-verb) Jonathan Degann’s Journal of Boardgame Design. It’s a while between articles, but I find them consistently thorough and enjoyable. For someone else looking at boardgames from an academic stance, it’s a place to go. This week, though, as a break from the design stuff […]
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