Why I Want to be a PC Gamer, but Can’t
(I touched briefly on this issue yesterday in my Starcraft 2 review, and was writing this column for another site, but I decided to post it here instead. Enjoy.) Starcraft 2 came out this week,…
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The Starcraft 2 Journal: Day 1
Alright, well it’s going to be a pretty monumental task to review Starcraft 2, as I might have mentioned before that I’ve been waiting over ten years for this game, and now that the beta…
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A Look Back at the Best Plays in Starcraft History
Starcraft 2 comes out today after over ten years of waiting, and I’m pretty pumped that the game I dreamt of as a kid has arrived at last. I currently have the game in my…
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Kirby Gets Pissed Off When Crossing Oceans
The guys over at GameRevolution noticed something pretty interesting when comparing Japanese and American box art of various Kirby games over the years. When he makes the jump across the pond, his demeanor changes from…
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Unreal Game Review: Limbo
While I’ve been immensely enjoying DeathSpank, the game I’ve been most looking forward to from this summer’s slew of releases by Xbox Live Arcade is Limbo. It hasn’t disappointed. The simple yet unique and gorgeous…
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A Gallery of Graphs Illustrating Truths in Movies, TV and Video Games
One of my favorite niche sites on the internet these days is GraphJam, where pie charts and Venn diagrams are used to show simple truths we all know, but become funny when put in graph…
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Ten Fictional Pieces of Technology That Actually Exist in Real Life
Whenever you watch a movie or TV show or play a video game set in the future, you constantly ask yourself, “damn, when is life going to be like this?” The answer? Sooner than you…
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The Dark Side of Tetris
(click to enlarge) This has to be one of my favorite things I’ve seen in a while. Apparently the punishment for being an 8-bit bad guy is a sentence to be drawn and quartered and…
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Unreal Game Review: DeathSpank
Xbox Live’s “Summer of Arcade” doesn’t officially start – according to Microsoft – until July 21 when Limbo is released. Why DeathSpank (which was released this past Wednesday) isn’t part of the big Summer of…