To talk about the current state of videogames is almost a redundant action. There are dozens - hundreds - of blogs out there all covering content second by second in a race to have the most hits before the others catch wind of it and emblazon it all over their own sites. Forums are alight with discussions, most of them to no real purpose, and of ( Read more... )

Sure, it's all to easy to whine about the complete overdose of SHOOTANS and DAKKA in our current videogame generation, what with a console *built specifically for* a genre of game and the total sales domination of FPS blockbusters like Modern Warfare or dare I say it, Halo. No offense to either of these games (although Halo 2's ending was a ( Read more... )

It's the time of year where I get to shoot off my opinions on the media of last year as a study on the development of modern visual culture, as a whole. 2007's been a mad, mad year, and as a university student with free time, as usual I'll find some way of wasting said free time, whether it be on the internet, on an IM, or marathoning an anime/ ( Read more... )

I picked up a GAMEWAVE mag the other day for $10HKD after something on the cover caught my eye ( Read more... )

See, it's past the mid-way point of the year, fast approaching the ninth month of the seventh year of the second millenium after a particular kid was born on Christmas. And it is with a sad realization that I have not immersed myself in anywhere near enough media this year to do a completely biased and unfair personal favorite list. It's a tough ( Read more... )

Okay, okay, let me get this straight-

Shadow Hearts: From The New World has the following:

A main detective wannabe kid with a lightsaber (technically a dinky little sword with a Malice Extension or whatever but holy shit it's a lightsaber)

A hot as all hell Native American woman who fights with a pair of tomahawks and with bonus power to fuse ( Read more... )

There is something intangibly beautiful about combat.

Just something in the air, as it fills with bullets and plasma and rockets and grenades and what have you, as well as the muffled curses, screams of the dying, frustrated yells and soforth. The dodging, the gunning, the running, the jumping, the kicking off walls and adrenaline combos, the ( Read more... )

The past month or so has seen me go in a radical new direction as to my creative interests. It's an interesting new phase, no doubt about it, not to mention Red and I at *long last* after many, many, MANY years of mutual procrastination are finally starting to lay the groundwork for what promises to be if not successful at least greatly beneficial ( Read more... )

I've tried long and hard not to write anything about the issue of violence and videogames, or violence in videogames, or violence relating to videogames ( Read more... )

Soooo... FFXII.

60 hours or so and I am seeking the lost area of Giruvegan, which is like a vegan, only not.

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