Fall Out 4
Fall Out 4 is the first videogame I’ve been really excited to play in a couple of years. How many days until November 11th? Half Life 3 on the other hand? Continue reading Fall Out 4
Category: Games
Clash of Civilizations
I have a love hate relationship with the game Civilization. The current version is Civ 5 and coincidentally I’ve been playing a bit of it this summer too. It does lend itself to some historical mismatches from time to time though as illustrated by the very recent installment of Awkward Zombie: Continue reading Clash of Civilizations
My Favorite: Videogames: FPS + RPG
There are only a handful of videogames that I have really and truly loved like a book, comic, movie or song. The ones that readily come to mind are all post-school for me when computer technology finally got to the point where graphics and gameplay enabled the kind of world building and immersive story-telling that was a generation beyond the Atari 2600 games of my … Continue reading My Favorite: Videogames: FPS + RPG
Tropes in Distress
This first entry in The Tropes vs Women in Video Games project from Anita Sarkeesian (successfully funded on Kickstarter) covers “damsels in distress” and is quite good: We all grew up with videogames and while I don’t think any of it controls anyone’s behavior (as in the constant political grandstanding over violence in videogames) it does reflect and reinforce attitudes and patterns in society. Examining games with a … Continue reading Tropes in Distress
Three Panel Soul
Matt and Ian are webcomic pioneers and their second webcomic, Three Panel Soul is an impressionistic chronicle of twenty-something post collegiate life. A little bit of relationships, a little bit of work, mix in some video-games and other cultural bits, all layered over realistic yet deeply stylized artwork and you’ve got a consistently interesting, often highly entertaining observational comic. Frankly I wouldn’t be wrong in … Continue reading Three Panel Soul
PBS Loves Some Homestuck
Entirely justified praise for the webby webcomic, MS Paint Adventures: Homestuck. And now Homestuck: The Game — a kickstarter for such an idea raised almost 850,000 dollars. Continue reading PBS Loves Some Homestuck
Real Life Portal Gun
POrtal: Terminal Velocity from Jason Craft on Vimeo. Continue reading Real Life Portal Gun
Kickstart My Art: Clang
Neal Stephenson is a geek legend at this point. I don’t think his first novel Snow Crash would have existed without William Gibson’s early novels coming first, but it’s just speculation on my part unless I get a chance to talk to either author. Don’t get me wrong, I love Neal’s books and unlike some, I’ve liked each new one better then the last. What some … Continue reading Kickstart My Art: Clang
Player One – Go!
Ready Player One is a good book that I read on the recommendation of the Boing Boing review. Author Ernest Cline created a really fun story within which he could mine Eighties nostalgia. Ultimately the characters were a little too thin for me to fully invest in the book but I still think it was one of the better science fiction style novels I’ve read … Continue reading Player One – Go!
Legends of Zork: Take 2
I played a bit of the new browser-based Legends of Zork when it launched, mostly because Jim Zubkavich did the artwork for it. Fun but got a bit repetitive for me so I stopped. They’ve kept making changes though so I thought I’d give it another shot. Continue reading Legends of Zork: Take 2
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