Yomi! It's a new card game by David Sirlin. Some of my friends know I'm a long-time fan of Sirlin's work. He's a competitive fighting game player, and he studies game theory and how to become a better competitor. I have a hard copy of his book, Playing to Win, and now I have all three of his board games. But Yomi is the game I'm most ( Read more... )

*At a game store*
Momma: "What? Grand Theft Auto? I heard about that crap on the news! I'm not buying you that. Pick something else."

Kiddy: "How about this one?"

Momma: "Condemned 2? Yeah, sure. Hey, ring this up quick! I'm missing American Idol ( Read more... )

Since the time we beat Bioshock, Stephanie also beat Portal. See? We're making progress on our video game pile! Now we're obsessed with the ending theme. Until now, I didn't understand why everybody was making such a big deal about it, but it's so catchy and fun (or moist and delicious?). We agree, though: Everybody should try playing Portal ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a little about Bards lately. Particularly, Bards in games ( Read more... )

Since Steph got her laptop, my desktop computer in my room suddenly seems so far away whenever I'm downstairs and want to look up something. Yes, I'm a little bit jealous ( Read more... )

This week, I have been researching and writing about Take Two's newest game, Manhunt 2, and I must admit just reading about it is starting to get into my psyche. You can read my most recent post on the game at Gamertell if you haven't been keeping up ( Read more... )

So, StarCraft 2 was announced last night in South Korea. Seriously, are any games besides StarCraft doing well in Korea? It's like, Blizzard Territory or something. StarCraft is, like, football there. That's gotta put a lot of pressure on Blizzard's development team, to know that they're essentially rewriting the rules to a country's FOOTBALL ( Read more... )

If anything would make me want to buy an XBox360, it would be this right here. And when we leave Kirksville and don't have anyone to play Settlers of Catan with offline for awhile, the draw might be bigger. Oh, and they also have a decent version of Guilty Gear, I'm told ( Read more... )

It's kind of drizzling out there today, and it's still pretty hot and muggy, but walking through campus, it smells like healing. Kind of how you'd expect a cure spell to smell, if indeed they did. The wind isn't strong enough, though. Still, it'd be nice to get some healing today...

Videogame link of the day: "Can Games Make You Cry?" An ( Read more... )

I think some of you will like this Gone Gaming article on "stupidity". It's rather enlightening ( Read more... )