Video Games

News For Nerds

26 May 2010

Matt Wilson’s blunt and excellent post at The Bureau Chiefs (the group blog of the Fake AP Stylebook creators) goes after what passes for comics and video game journalism in its present state and points out in a numbered list just why it sucks so bad.  And yes, I’m pointing that out on a blog [...]

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Roger Ebert – Wrong About Gaming?

19 April 2010

In the loud and unfortunately nonsensical (in many cases) reaction to Roger Ebert’s proclamation that video games are not and will likely never be art, it is easy to miss that Ebert is not decrying the medium or proclaiming it to be without merit.  He’s simply saying that games aren’t art. And, speaking as a [...]

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Five Implausible Plots For Final Fantasy XIII

29 March 2010

1. Ridiculously attired sociopaths run in a straight line and kill soldiers for 40 hours. These are the good guys. 2. A man who looks like Lionel Richie dressed as John Lennon – who has a tiny yellow bird living inside his afro – shoots a bunch of people and whines about his bad parenting [...]

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Things I Am Doing Right Now That Nobody Else In The World Is Doing

1 March 2010

1.  Purchasing a Sega Dreamcast game.

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Items of Note

24 November 2009

1. Item the first: Xeric Award-winning comics creator Box Brown is crowdsourcing the funding of his new project, called Everything Dies. I like everything of Box’s that I’ve read, especially his last book Love Is A Peculiar Type of Thing. I talked to Box a little bit at SPX earlier this year and he’s a [...]

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The Beatles: Rock Band

30 September 2009

The amount of affection you have for The Beatles: Rock Band is basically a product of how much you love The Beatles.  Interestingly, I don’t think it has much to do with your general feeling on music games.  TB:RB is a fundamentally different experience from a normal Rock Band or Guitar Hero game, in that [...]

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Did You Know…

24 August 2009

That PlayStation 2 8MB memory cards still cost $24.99? I re-acquired a pS2 after losing mine in the Gaming Purge of 2008, and grabbed a few of the games that I’d been jonesing for in the past year and change – Persona 3 FES, Devil Summoner 2, Ar Tonelico 2 and Mana Khemia (also FFXII [...]

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