Category: Videogames
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Spore
Here’s a thirty-five minute long video of Will Wright’s presentation of Spore at the Computer Game Developers’ Conference. Whoever wrote the description is right; it does look like it’s going to be the best videogame ever made. (If you don’t want to or can’t watch the video, GameSpy did a write-up of it). And here’s…
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Checklist
One of the consequences of having a spastic attention span is that I’ve got a huge mental to-do list that grows faster than is possible for a mortal human — even one with my considerable gifts as granted me by your yellow Earth sun — to check them off. And because it’s all in me…
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180 on the 360
Another inconsequential post on SFist, this time about the rumored video iPod with a bigger screen that, like me, is touch sensitive. And still I can’t work up much of a reaction other than “meh.” Either I’m getting more mature (plastic guitars notwithstanding) or I’ve just reached consumer electronics saturation what with all the handheld…
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Guitar Background Character
I finally broke down and spent my gift certificate on a copy of Guitar Hero. What got me was Matt’s reminding me on here that it contains “More Than a Feeling” (as made famous by Boston), and this video of a guy playing on expert. It really does deserve the hype it’s been getting; it’s…
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Pathetic.
Another mark in the “Blizzard is evil” column: their “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” handling of a guild in World of Warcraft that advertised itself as “GLBT-friendly.” In brief, when a player sent a message over general chat recruiting people into her “GLBT-friendly but not GLBT-only” guild, she was given a citation for violating the game’s…
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A pox on your Xbox!
According to USA Today, the scarcity of Xbox 360s will likely continue through Spring, just in time for the release of the Playstation 3. Fine, then, Microsoft! I don’t want your damn computer box anyhow! I’d pretty much resigned myself to getting one, since I’ve got more discretionary income than common sense or time. I…
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Strategery
I don’t like real-time strategy games. You’d think I could just accept that and move on, but they keep putting in stuff that makes me think I’m going to like them. This one lets you build things! You like that SimCity game, don’t you, Chuck? This one has samurai; who doesn’t like samurai? This one…
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First!
Warning: This post is about World of Warcraft. Like the other 200 million people who play the game, I’ve got ideas on how to make it better. Since reading the official forums just makes me sad, and since there are at least a couple of people who read this blog who are interested in videogames,…
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I Feel the Warmth of its Presence
Neat! I just found out, from IGN of all places, that the Telltale Games gang has announced their consortium with Steve Purcell to do Sam & Max games. And Steve’s started a new webcomic and an official website (the website just has a teaser image at the moment). I can’t wait to see what they…
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Katamari Dumb-assy
Another SFist post from me is up, where I go off on a tangent about Roger Ebert’s claim that videogames are inherently inferior to real art like literature and film. It surprised me that his comments bugged me as much as they did, considering that I don’t technically work in games anymore. And I’m as…
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Banned from Disneyland
No Disneyland for me this week, since they’re only keeping the park open until 8pm every night. Even I’m not stupid enough to drive at least an hour and a half through Los Angeles rush hour traffic to be able to spend 30 minutes to an hour in the happiest place on earth. Okay, I…
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Won’t someone think of the children?!?
There’s another post up at SFist, which I mention only because that’s the only way they show up in the sidebar down below to your right. Speaking of belated responses to basically inconsequential news: A couple of weeks ago there was a big stink all over the videogame section of the internets about this “lawyer”…