Been unplugged - well, not unplugged unplugged, just not doing the whole obsessive-web-browsing thing - for a little while, and? AWESOME. Example: That thing? With the dude, and the gun, that I’m not actually describing because I don’t want those search hits? Totally didn’t know about that until Thag mentioned […]

Superheroes!
Well, more like antiheroes, there’s a whole Judge Dredd thing happening here, “clean up the festering pit of evil that is your city” vibe.
It’s a strange little game, and it’s a great game, but it’s only about half a game, which is understandable, since they tried to shoehorn in bits from platforming, driving, shooting, nearly […]

Oh, yeah - that.
I put some time into Warcraft before; it started when I didn’t even have my filler job, when I could totally put fourteen hours a day into leatherworking if I felt like it, and, well, I did (of course, I was on dial-up back then, so it sort of evens out).
Where gratification […]

I’ve been playing a lot of Project 8 lately.
There are those who would excoriate the industry for this and other crimes ‘gainst creativity - indeed, there are those who view the appending of a suffix to the end of some title as reason enough to discount it entirely, as though deciphering a 3 or 2007 […]

This is something I’ve been wondering about for awhile.
Okay, you’ve got hormones and genitalia and chromosomes and all those meatsack things; and then you have the socialized gender rules and regulations, some of which started lo these many millenia ago out of said physical characteristics (and here we could start tracing lines like “Urgg bleeds! […]

I’ve been thinking about win conditions lately.
The thing about games - good games, or at least according to my definition of a good game - is that they allow you to win in more than one way.
Consider Grand Theft Auto. Now, it’s totally a murder/crime sim, but beyond that, it’s an open-ended playground, and […]

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There’s obsessive-compulsive interweb intake. You see all that shit on the right? I used to hit half of it several times daily, and when I say ‘hit’, I mean all of it, every last blog entry, comment and forum post that I hadn’t already consumed the day before.
There is, […]

Unlike in previous Grand Theft Auto games, if you do keep to the city streets, you’ll get a little extra navigating help in the form of street signs that you can use to locate buildings by their actual addresses. Unlike in the cities Liberty and Vice, Los Santos’ streets actually have names, and you’ll need […]

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