Note: some spoilitos for all three Deus Ex games lie within. You have been warned. When Deus Ex was released I was thirteen years old. Now, maybe that’s not an appropriate age to play Deus Ex, some may think. I don’t know many early-teens who could appreciate the freedom and breadth of storytelling that game [...]
The Epic Legends: The Beautiful Game – Part Two
The next cycle saw great changes in the guild, the ancient ancestral ties to 1up and the Legendary Thread podcast were severed, I became pretty well liked. I didn’t beg for officer status, well, not much. Eventually I even got it, though the person who promoted me was drunk beyond reckoning at the time. Drunk [...]
The Epic Legends: The Beautiful Game – Part One
World of Warcraft. I can say with certainty that nothing in the whole of media has affected my life as dramatically, as permanently, and as positively as World of Warcraft. A game known for destroying lives. For turning intelligent, erudite individuals into annoying fuckwits who obsess over what numbers will interact in the best way [...]
The Return
June 21, 2010. It seems like a date that never should have happened. Some science fiction land where the aliens have landed to meet with the robot overlords on the nuclear-charred wastes that once were home to the human race. While our current dystopia is wildly different than those imagined by Arthur C. Heinlein K. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Go Buy Devil May Cry 4
That is all. More tomorrow when I’m not addled by fatigue. (Hyper-late Edit: Obviously this never happened. I’ll try to make up for it with something fantasmically awesome.)
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 [...]
