Category: Videogames
Night of the Raving Dead
Nick, Jake, Jared, and the rest of the gang are cranking out Sam & Max episode trailers so quickly, it’s almost like there’s a new one every month. (Come on, give me a break. I’m home sick and pumped full of cold medication.) The next episode is “Night of the Raving Dead”, and so far…
Virtual Orgasmic Grilling
[Note: Links in this post are broken as of 2016, but they pointed to a pair of predictably overblown complaints about the moral depravity of Mass Effect, by a pundit named Kevin McCullough. Also, images for a lot of posts were lost during a site move, which is a shame because my Mass Effect character…
Johnny Lee is my new hero
There’s a guy at Carnegie Mellon named Johnny Chung Lee, who’s been doing experiments with the Wii remote, then putting his results up on YouTube. The ones I’ve seen take advantage of the fact that the Wii remote is an IR camera, not just a standard IR-output remote, which flips the whole method of interactivity…
My stalker photos, let me show you them.
Last week, Nintendo released Pokemon Snap for the virtual console. (Still no word if they’ll be releasing its obscure sequel, Pikachu, Oh No You Di’nt!) The original game was a brilliant concept — a Pokemon photo safari — and it was presented really well. I’ll never understand why it didn’t go on to become a…
Moai Better Blues
You see what we did there? The trailer for the next episode of Sam and Max is up, and once again the young’uns have done a great job with it. (I had recommended a parody of “In Search Of” for the trailer, but everybody said they didn’t know what that was. Then they laughed and…
Targeted
Sometimes I think game companies would be better off if they just dispensed with the marketing, and just mailed the game directly to my house and deducted the cost directly from my checking account. I mean, there’s really no point in even pretending like I’m going to avoid buying Patapon the second it’s released in…
Disorderly to poke by mouse is accepted in fleshe
I realize that fun with Babel Fish translations is old news, but I’m really enjoying how it handled this Russian review of “Ice Station Santa”, the first episode of Sam & Max season 2. The only part that I can read is the reviewer gives a 55% (yikes! whatever happened to glasnost?), but the translation…
You Can’t Go to World 1-1 Again
I took advantage of the weekend and nights sneaking out of the office just after dark, to play some of Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii. I’m about 31 stars in, and I’ve come to two conclusions: 1) It deserves all the perfect reviews it’s been getting, and 2) I’m old. Now, it doesn’t take…
Hooray for stuff I worked on!
I’m starting to regret all that stuff I said earlier about videogames being non-union, because a writer’s strike would be pretty sweet right about now. Not because I have anything in particular to protest, but because it’d be nice to get a little break. Yet another problem with doing exactly what I want to be…
The creature is stirring
Nick and Jake at Telltale have done another great job with the trailers for the Sam & Max games; here’s the one for the first episode of season 2. It’s called “Ice Station Santa,” in case that’s not clear. The season starts November 8th & 9th, and I’m interested to see what the reaction’s going…
Boîte l’Orange
In a just universe, all the press and marketing attention devoted to Halo 3 would’ve been saved for The Orange Box. Now, I realize that’s kind of ridiculous — I’m skeptical that Valve is in any way strapped for cash. And Half-Life isn’t exactly some obscure title that needs passionate fans to blog about to…
Guild seeks friendly members noobs welcome!
Back on Friday word spread around the videogame blogs that the Writers Guild of America is introducing an award for videogame writing. My first reaction to reading that was, “Huh. Another award for BioShock this year.” Which is a good thing; videogames will be better as soon as more people acknowledge that a good story…