Ah, St. Patrick's day. A day where even those completely lacking in Irish ancestory can share in the spirit of  Ireland and the magic of drinking whiskey all night and not being hung over come morning. Or maybe I'm just lucky. Speaking of the luck of the non-Irish and in belated honor of St. Patrick's Day,  I give you 6 reasons why the Irish are ( Read more... )

Oh, stealth levels. How awesome you are in small doses. How lame as a whole game. The weird thing is that there really isn't any reason I should be thinking this game is deadly boring. I love stealth. I hate combat. I think it's probably suffering from the same thing  Condemned does, in that doing anything, repetively for two or three hours, isn't ( Read more... )

So gearing up for the second of the Condemned games, we're taking a look back to this scary little bastard here. Here's  what's bugging me. If you want to make a game where the enemies are humans, psychotic, murderous humans, but humans none-the-less, you cannot give me an *axe* as a weapon. Blunt force trauma, okay, they can come back at me. Hell ( Read more... )

Good goddamn, these are great books. Not like, "Wow, that was quite good. I think I'll read it again." sort of good. More like " I'm buying another set and putting it in a bank vault with The Windrose Chronicles and an extra set of glasses, just incase there's some kind of nuclear conflict, so I can be reading them Post-Apocalypse, Burgess Meredith ( Read more... )

Psychonauts is fantastic.

Why?

'Cause it's fun.

Remember fun? It's what we used to have before games became all 
about traveling through a series of extremely realistic but nearly identical
 levels while trying to see how many bad guys we can chainsaw in the 
face while doing the simon-sez button mashing puzzle and defeating 
hordes of zombies/other ( Read more... )

So, Beatles songs make cranky critics. It wasn't the best movie ever, but it should be rocking at least a 70% on Rotten Tomatoes instead of the 50% it has.

What do I want from a film like this? People dancing around to Beatles music with trippy visuals. This could have been four hours long and gone through the enitre Beatles catalogue (which, ( Read more... )

Book of the Week: Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

Damned if this isn't the cutest Astronomer/Geordie Surveyor buddy novel ever. Okay, so there might not be a lot to compare it with but still.  Curiosity after hearing "Sailing to Philidelphia" by James Taylor and Mark Knopfler made me pick it up.  Against all sense or reason, I blew my book money for ( Read more... )

Go read them. No seriously. If you're someone paying the slightest bit of attention to this journal you're probably a Doctor Who fan and as such must read these books. You have no choice.

For some reason this fantastic series seems to be incrediably obscure, in spite of the fact that it is awesome beyond all sense and reason. Alright, so one of the ( Read more... )