Tag Archives: video games

Utah: We will suck up to fearful parents even though it screws everyone including them

Utah has a bill in play H.B. 353 regarding video game sales and ratings and such.
In an attempt to bring game selling under state control, they are introducing an amendment that says, in effect: If you promise to follow the ESRB guidelines and then you don’t, you are in violation of the truth in advertising [...]

Stool compatability

Non-compatible stools were first designed by the Inquisition

Metal Gear Solid 4: Addendum

Two more things about MGS
1. No game I have ever played has talked so much about smoking.  Further, no game I have ever played has ever had its ‘wait’ screens give advice on how to appropriately dispose of cigarettes
2. This game could easily win the “Most Use Of Camel Toe” award, hands down

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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots

Phenomenal game.  Wish I had played one level harder, though.
A few items:
1. The game pays huge tribute to the people who have played the previous ‘chapters’.  While you don’t need to know the story before playing this game, it really will help.  Luckily, you can download the Metal Gear Solid database for free.  Here’s a [...]

After a long hiatus

I am returned!
Anyhow, a few things spring to mind before I actually start letting myself be informed about the world again (yes, I admit it, living in a box is very nice).
1. The two most under-rated bands of the 80s: Oingo Boingo, Missing Persons
2. If you hate your PC now, switch to a Mac and [...]

Hitchhikers2: Milliways by Infocom???

So, obviously this never came to pass, but its amazingly cool to read the emails and such.
And I am particularly fond of these two design points:
1. Shall we try to present multiple viewpoints in this version of the story? In the original version(s), the group of travellers became separated while visiting Magrathea, and again later [...]

Afro Samurai!!!

Well, I can’t actually tell you what this says (yesterday, gamespot wasn’t blocked for some reason, today it is again) but it looks like an Afro Samurai game is coming!!!
I thoroughly enjoyed this cartoon and I think its a great setting/concept for a game.

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One Handed 360 controller

There’s no way this can work well.1. some of those buttons don’t look like you could easily reach them quickly2. “and places the right analog stick at the base of the controller — you play the game by moving the analog stick against your leg” yeahright
Ben Heck refines his one-handed Xbox 360 controller – Engadget

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Horrible people at EBWorld/EBGames/Gamestop

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is being listed at EBWorld etc. as shipping 4/01/08.
This is a horrible, horrible lie, as best I can tell. Its going to be sometime this summer, I believe (though I can’t check at the moment thanks to the needlessly restrictive firewall here at work and the serious EM interference [...]

Newest games

I went out to blockbuster a week ago to rent Devil May Cry 4 and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.
I haven’t been interested in DMC since the first one. The second was just bad, and the third was way too hard. I also got very tired of how ‘cool’ and ‘edgy’ Dante was in his [...]