Archive for the 'Video Games' Category

The Problem With America

Friday, July 31st, 2009

I have discovered the problem, and present it to you for your edification:
Three overweight ladies and their fat little kids are standing in line at McDonald’s. One mother turns to her friends and says, “See, that’s the problem with America these days. They don’t have playgrounds at McDonald’s anymore, all they have are these video [...]

Boundaries of ‘Game’

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

I discovered 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness. And promptly began pondering the limitations and boundaries of games, much as I imagine the creator was doing. Specifically, what makes a game? How far can you push a game before it stops being a game?
In this particular game, what is perhaps the most extreme experiment [...]

Illicit Euphoria

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

I have, for some reason I haven’t fully explored, always been attracted to violence in videogames as directed towards small non-common-household animals. Fable indulged me in this propensity to a certain extent with its wholly extraneous and immensely entertaining diversion of kicking chickens, including first the longest kick metric and later an entire competition built [...]

True Next-Gen Gaming

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Every couple of years, someone decides to release a new console, and the gaming community at large touts the marvels of the “next generation” of gaming. Usually what this amounts to is some oohing and aahing over slightly improved graphics, and another 8000 EA Sports games to ignore. Once in a while, we see an [...]

Running the Shadows on the 360 and Vista.

Friday, June 1st, 2007

So I picked up a copy of the new Shadowrun game for the 360. I will admit that when I heard that it was being made as a first person shooter I was not happy. As most of you know (Lets face it, no one reads the crap we post here but us) I have [...]