Month: September 2007
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Pro Choice
It’s nice to get a day off, because it’s a hell of a lot easier to sit in front of a blog editor and pontificate about how games should be made than it is to actually make a game. (Even one that’s already been plotted out and designed for you, and you just have to…
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Could we try it again, a little darker this time?
I’ve been reading Rain’s updates on the new TV shows that are coming out, but for some reason it still didn’t click with me that there are new TV shows coming out. It must’ve seemed relevant to me at some point, since my faux-TiVo has been recording all this stuff. The cat only records the…
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Fun with Audio
YouTube user StSanders has been posting some rare concert footage of the world’s finest guitarists just tearing it up. I may not be all that excited to see the new Van Halen in concert again, but there’s no denying that back in the day, Eddie was a god of the axe: Carlos Santana isn’t bad…
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Deja Vu
I don’t know what got up the butts of the Rotten Tomatoes people, because I liked Resident Evil: Extinction an awful lot. It’s exactly what I was hoping to get out of a Resident Evil movie. There are a lot of reviews which dismissively compare it to a videogame, to which the obvious responses are:…
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All bets are off!
I don’t think I need to remind anybody about the significance of this weekend, but just in case: it’s the opening weekend of Resident Evil: Extinction. I haven’t been reading or watching anything about the movie except for the trailer, because I don’t want no haters dragging me down. If I’d listened to the kind…
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It’s always sucky on FX
I’ve been hearing about the series “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” from multiple places for over a year now. I tried watching a couple episodes when I first heard of it, and hated it. I tried the other night, because they’re building up buzz because of a new season or something, and still hate it.…
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Medic!
I wish it were legal to marry a videogame, because then I’d marry Team Fortress 2, and I wouldn’t feel so guilty about how much I want to have sex with it. A game that’s that much fun to play shouldn’t need to look as good as it does. There’s a video from some of…
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Blink
I was really impressed with the current version of “Doctor Who” when it started airing on the Sci Fi channel. It’s funny to read about just how huge it is in the UK, since it came as a total surprise to me that I’d enjoy it at all, much less think of it as must-see…
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Aftershock
At some point during the blur of the past few weeks, I “finished” BioShock. (The Xbox Achievements are still there to remind me I haven’t really finished until I’ve played through a second time, even more slowly and methodically). The game has been out so long by now that it’s been picked clean of things…
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Let’s all go to the lobby… and have ourselves a good cry.
I remember when the intro clips they showed at movie theaters used to be cool. You’d be flying through space and there’s a Coke formation up ahead but all of a sudden popcorn starts exploding all around you and then they thank you for not smoking. Nowadays, the theater conglomerate that currently monopolizes Marin is…
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“A Triumph of the Human Spirit”
I haven’t been writing on here much lately (apart from tonight), because I’ve been too busy not getting my work done. Since I’m currently failing on the development side of things, maybe I can be of use to my company in marketing and promotion: Sam & Max Season Two has been announced, and there’s a…
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Zero Punctuation
The best commentary being made about videogames today is from a guy named “Yahtzee” Croshaw, who started with videos on YouTube and is now doing them for the online magazine The Escapist. I don’t know the guy, but after seeing his review of BioShock I want to be his best friend. And below is the…