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Let’s all go to the lobby… and have ourselves a good cry.
I remember when the intro clips they showed at movie theaters used to be cool. You’d be flying through space and there’s a Coke formation up ahead but all of a sudden popcorn starts exploding all around you and then they thank you for not smoking. Nowadays, the theater conglomerate that currently monopolizes Marin is…
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“A Triumph of the Human Spirit”
I haven’t been writing on here much lately (apart from tonight), because I’ve been too busy not getting my work done. Since I’m currently failing on the development side of things, maybe I can be of use to my company in marketing and promotion: Sam & Max Season Two has been announced, and there’s a…
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Zero Punctuation
The best commentary being made about videogames today is from a guy named “Yahtzee” Croshaw, who started with videos on YouTube and is now doing them for the online magazine The Escapist. I don’t know the guy, but after seeing his review of BioShock I want to be his best friend. And below is the…
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Betrayal at 1 Infinite Loop
Today Apple demonstrated its love for the early adopters and hard-core Apple fanatics who’ve supported the company by announcing a 200-dollar price drop on the iPhone. The best part, if you’re the type who reads the internets, is that it opened the door for all those who didn’t already buy an iPhone (you know, poor…
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Secret Saturdays
Jay Stephens’ blog Monsterama is great for anybody who’s a fan of cartoon monsters from the 50s – 70s (and everybody is, even if they don’t realize it yet). For the past year or so, it’s been particularly cool because he’s been tracing the concept and production of “The Secret Saturdays,” an animated series he’s…
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They chose to build… an action game!
I’ve been limiting myself to at most an hour of BioShock a night, plus I’m going through it very slowly, even for me. So I’m still only done with the first two levels. But if I waited until I was finished with it to write anything about it, then by the time I was done…
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No gods or kings, only power-ups
The buzz around BioShock is getting monumental, and as a videogame fan with no stock in Take 2, I couldn’t be happier about it. It’s got the Penny Arcade guys talking about storytelling and the narrative potential of games as art using lots of italics. It’s got the normally somewhat reserved guys at Eurogamer writing…
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My So-Called Luminosity
There’s a scene in the the trailer for the upcoming re-remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where Nicole Kidman’s character is walking through a crowd of people and is warned not to show any emotion, because that’s how they can tell you’re still human. Looking at the Rotten Tomatoes page for Stardust is a…