Category: Videogames

One of the life lessons that I keep learning, and keep ignoring, is that you should always keep your career separate from your hobbies. In retrospect, I could’ve saved a lot of time and effort if I’d just bought the sequels to Monkey Island and SimCity instead of flying all the way out here to…

I don’t make a habit out of agreeing with the Penny Arcade guys, but Tycho made a really good point on Monday. It’s something that’s bugged me ever since I moved out here and started working in videogames. The problem is the weird dollar-to-hour value ratio people use when talking about games. You’ll frequently see…

I bought the World of Warcraft expansion pack, with about a billion other people, apparently, more out of obligation than anything else. I’ve kept my account open in the game for at least four months, without ever logging in, just to wait for the expansion pack, so I might as well buy it, right? And…

Tonight I finally finished Half-Life 2 Episode One. (On a completely unrelated note: thanks again, Steve!) This is the game that, according to GameSpot’s whiny review, was “incredibly short,” containing “only four to six hours of gameplay.” I figure it’s taken me 7 months to finish it. I’ve already admitted that I’m not good at…

Gizmodo has a link to this video of a woman playing the boxing game of Wii Play. The blogger warns that the audio is not safe for work, because it sounds like the woman is in the throes of passion. Two questions: What the hell kind of bizarre psychosexual shadow realm are these gadget bloggers…

I’m really not good at videogames. This seems hard for people to process, sometimes — considering how long I’ve worked in games and how much I go on about them, I guess it’s easy to assume that I’ve got some acceptable level of skill at actually playing them. More than a few times, people have…

Final Fantasy XII is a great game. It took me about eight hours to come to that conclusion, because I didn’t like it much at first, and it takes a long time to get going. I wasn’t jumping up and down to get into another long RPG, but I ran into my friend Frank on…

I’m way too old and disinterested to be getting into a “which console rocks hardest” battle, but I still read the videogame blogs and am bemused by the wackiness surrounding the Nintendo Wii. Specifically, it has the power to turn people into hypocrites. First was this quote from one of Sony Australia’s managers saying that…

Videogames are cool, because they’re fun to play, and they’re fun to write about on the internet! Everybody knows that the best kind of videogames is the kind where you learn things, and that’s awesome because that’s the best kind of internet weblog post, too! For instance, I learned from Cory that Suikoden V is…