Spectre Collie

Category: Videogames

  • The startled gasp of a beautiful woman

    It occurred to me I never did go on enough about how much I love this Sam & Max short, written by Steve Purcell: The list of things Max loves is the best thing I’ve heard in a long time. God bless you, Sam & Max. I’ll never forget all you’ve done here today.

  • The Blizzard Effect

    Word on the street is that Blizzard is going to be announcing a Starcraft-themed massively multiplayer game at an upcoming event in South Korea. (For people who don’t know videogames, but are still reading this for some reason: Starcraft was a real-time strategy game released back in 1998. There was one expansion pack, but there’ve…

  • Wood for Sheep

    The Settlers of Catan is the game I’ve been most looking forward to on Xbox Live, and it was finally released today. I played two games against the AI, and I totally won both of them. My initial impression is that they did about as good a job of translating it to a console as…

  • 35 Going On 13

    I can’t tell if I’ve lost any last shred of shame I was holding onto, or I’ve reached some kind of clarity that only comes from true maturity. Either way, I had no problem buying the latest Pokemon game last week. Common decency suggests I should’ve furtively taken it up to the register, hidden underneath…

  • Everybody Wins

    I can’t give out free copies of the Sam & Max games, but i can point you to the people who can. There’s a bunch of contests being run for a free copy of Season 1: Telltale’s own contest wants you to make with the arts and crafts Wired’s Game|Life blog is looking for a…

  • SHODAN and Max

    Maybe you’ve heard about Telltale’s Sam & Max games, and you’ve had your little mouse-clicker thing hovering over the “buy” button, but you’ve stopped yourself. “I’m tempted,” you say, “but I’m a strict adherent of post-modernism, and I would only play a game with self-referential humor about videogames and the burgeoning ‘internet’ phenomenon that all…

  • A few (well, two) of my favorite things

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    Matt sent me this link to a really, really well-done fan video. It’s The Walt Disney World Tower of Terror in a Half-Life 2 mod. All it’s missing is the fog in the courtyard and a few of the effects in the ride.

  • I can’t use these things together

    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…

  • Wii Would Like to Play

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    And via Kotaku, my other favorite video of the week.

  • Oh, do we have a clip?

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    I’ve been sequestered in my apartment for the last week, and I think I can finally say what the project is. I’ve been helping out with Telltale’s Sam & Max adventure games. The first episode I worked on, “Abe Lincoln Must Die!” is coming out on Gametap this Thursday, and then on Telltale’s site March…

  • Longer and harder

    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…

  • It’s not Warcraft, it’s me

    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…