Too Human: The Story of Denis Dyack

Too Human.  Two words.  It is a game that has been in development over ten years.  Originally slated for release on the PlayStation 1, Too Human has since gone through iterations on the Nintendo GameCube and the Xbox 360, where at long last it has seen release.
This story isn’t about the game, though.  This story [...]

An Angry Person

I recieved a comment today, from someone I may or may not know, that was rather touching.  One of the things it said, was “I honestly just thought you were an angry person”.
Well, in certain ways, I am.
One of the things I talk about a lot is politics, growing up in the shadow of Washington [...]

Media Blackout

The world needs a break from 24 hour news networks.  They’re poisonous, and not just Fox, which is intentionally poisonous.
Over the course of time, and more specifically this campaign season I’ve realized that what some might refer to as the Death of Journalism is not a willful disrespect, or bias, but rather a necessity of [...]

Peter Travers – The Anti-Ebert

As a lifelong fan of film and game alike, I’ve been increasingly frustrated in the seeming critical divide between these two art forms.  Roger Ebert, famously has stated that games can never be art, my open letter to him drew a lot of attention, and has yet to yield a response from anyone at the [...]

REVIEW – Iron Man

Iron Man lights a fire underneath its competitors in the increasingly-stale summer-superhero genre. Robert Downey Jr. is no tortured Bruce Wayne, no awkward Peter Parker, he’s goddamn Iron Man, in the suit and out.

How to Beat World of Warcraft

Every week I hear a new studio talking about how Licensed MMO X will topple World of Warcraft and ascend to the throne of MMO supremacy.
They’re all fucking morons and 100% wrong. They know it, too. Most of these people will be ecstatic should they breach 1 million subscribers.
World of Warcraft is far [...]

I’m a liar

(note: This post contains wildly harsh language, in quotation. For all my love of the word Fuck, this shit shouldn’t be taken as my own opinion. Consider yourself warned)
I’ve not updated in forever, and honestly it’s because the world is so infuriating at a base level right now that I’m barely staying [...]

Chris Taylor is Wrong

So Chris Taylor, he of Total Annihilation fame, is demagoguing about how to “save PC gaming”.  Of course, he’s got it wrong.
Putting aside the fact that he’s an irrelevant fucktard, a one-hit-wonder of a game developer whose library is a cavalcade of mediocrity, to ape the inimitable Yahtzee, he’s on the wrong path.
Taylor says that [...]

Respite for the Cynical.

I live in Washington D.C. and I have all my life. It’s no surprise that I’ve long been cynical and jaded as to what I see as the realities of the system, for good or ill.
It all started when I was in sixth grade. I sat in a classroom as history unfolded before [...]

18-1

A northerner/masochistic-redskins-fan myself, even though I was rooting for them, I can’t help but laugh at the Pats’ complete and utter failure, right up to that embarassing final sack of Tom Brady.  Guess Gisele’s gonna have to go for a little jog now…
Best Superbowl in years, though.  The Giants deserve every iota of that hard-fought [...]