A little over a week ago we celebrated my birthday with raucous partying and the like, it’s always good to get a large group of friends together for communal debauchery. However, what really made the day for me was my lovely wife’s efforts into creating what has to be one of the best birthday cakes […]
Inq. of the Week: Opinions of E3 2009?
For the past week I’ve been hearing faint whispers around the edges of my radar about E3 going on, but it feels like this year everything is far more muted than it has been in previous years. The only thing that I’ve really heard a lot of excitement about is the new Star Wars: The Old Republic trailer, which does look extremely badass and the changes to the MMO style really intrigue me.
Put the Phone Away: A call to gamers still in the dark ages of handhelds (Part 1)
Gamers have a predicament when they are away from their home base: they have a gnawing hunger for escapist goodness without a good way of appeasing the hungry gaming monster in their bellies. Too many of you are resigning yourselves to badly-made clones of golden-era games on your tiny little cellphone screens. Stop it.
YouTube Tuesday: Instanced Drinking Edition
A very funny video of a Chinese man’s life seen through a WoW lens. Even though it is in Chinese, it’s still funny and well done without knowing what is being said.
Review: “The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena” (Xbox 360)
For us folks who are two movies and a video game behind on knowing what the hell is going on, here’s what I can gather: Space Vin Diesel washes up on some shore, and is pissed (naturally). He also looks damn good in a space wife-beater, and has sweet space welding goggles. There’s some silly obligatory one-liners said by our hero, but soon we’re off doing what we REALLY wanted to do: stabbing people in the throat!
Video Game Design – an opinion piece
LeBreton is the lead level designer for Bioshock 2. He gives a pretty good opinion piece on some of the issues surrounding the past and future of video game design. Here is an excerpt: As of 2009, the game industry seems to want two fairly contradictory things: – Make games, using proven mechanics from the […]
YouTube Tuesday: Windy City Level Edition
“One toot on this whistle will send you to a far away land!”
Review: “Street Fighter IV”
Street Fighter IV, the six-button-mashing cash cow for Capcom is here, and already it’s being hailed as a successful sequel to the franchise by videogame critics. This is not the first Capcom foray into the pseudo-3D universe of Ryu and Chun-Li. The Street Fighter EX series was produced to rival the growing number of people playing games such as Tekken and Virtua Fighter. These games were nominally successful, and offered some of the same gameplay features. Street Fighter IV, however, is far more pretty and fine-tuned.
YouTube Tuesday: City 17 Edition
Since I was sent it no less than 3 times this week, here’s the Half-Life 2 fan movie that everyone’s talking about. It’s well done, but perhaps more importantly, it shows that good quality stuff can now be made for as cheap as $500.
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-01-10
New DDI Updates: “Prepare for the Resolution” http://is.gd/eMtl “Fist of Mourning” http://is.gd/eMtt “Don’t let the XP grind you down” http://is.gd/eMtD # Retweeting @thewanderingmen: Planescape: Torment fans might find this interesting: http://tinyurl.com/77cawc # WotC updates: Sylvan Cathedral http://is.gd/eRBL Whose Mug is That? http://is.gd/eRCj Digital Insider http://is.gd/eRCl #
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