So here's the thing. People who write about games for a living play a lot of games, and they have an incisive eye towards game balance factors, etc. But they're not necessarily good at games. I recall a review of Splinter Cell: Double Agent that claimed the game's new mechanism of counting any disabled enemy (killed or not) against you made it " ( Read more... )

Yeah, I haven't really kept this up. It's been pretty crazy since we got back from Hawaii. I have videos which I'll get around to editing and posting. Christina has still photos on her Flickr. She's much more prompt about these things ( Read more... )

I got a new pair of sunglasses recently, finally replacing the pair I broke last summer. They are polarized, but have plastic lenses, so they were only 40 bucks. For my purposes, that works fine. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten used to the idea that I have sunglasses again, so I haven't remembered to actually wear them when driving yet ( Read more... )

Uwe Boll can be stopped.

Maybe. It's worth a shot, anyway. I signed the petition.

Post coming later detailing my awesomely exhausting weekend.

So the Xbox support page was down last night... (rolls eyes ( Read more... )

Found via lostlo


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The funny thing is, I had a feeling it would be. But here's the clincher. Are you sitting down?

Xbox Live Arcade has ported n. Not the shitty flash version I linked with only 30 episodes, not the ridiculously hard downloadable version with 60 episodes, but a new version in high definition with a level editor and multiplayer. They're calling it ( Read more... )

- My keyboard is malfunctioning. I'm not sure if there's some physical problem or if it's firmware-related, or if it's just dying (I hope not; it's only a couple years old). As it stands, the 'K' key and the "Enter" key both register very infrequently. It's notable how rarely I actually use the letter 'k' in everyday speech, but "Enter" is ( Read more... )

I just finished my first playthrough of Mass Effect. Now, you might be thinking, "Brad, didn't you just get that game on Christmas? I thought it was supposed to be a reasonably long game." Well, you're right. I clocked in just shy of 47 hours to beat it, so it's a pretty decent length. What that means, though, is that I basically spent a ( Read more... )

I got Beth Ann a gift.

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