Category: Videogames
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Get ready for some fun, it’s question number 1
I heard about this a while ago, but just got around to checking it out tonight: The Jellyvision guys have started putting daily questions from You Don’t Know Jack on their website. The series always was the best-written of any videogame, and it’s cool to hear topical material again. They’ve tried the online thing before,…
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Wii Todd Ed
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…
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Spaz of War
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…
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Live with Regis & Vaan
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…
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Damn Wii Smokes Too Much
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…
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The Week in Videogames
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…
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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…