Tim Schafer and the Revenge of the Sweater Prez
Posted by Lance on 30th November , 2007I think I owe it to the loyal, milling throngs of gamers out there that (don’t) read my blog to recommend this excellent post on OXM by the great Tim Schafer.
Archive for November, 2007
GameSpot's Gerstmann Caned and Lynched?
Posted by Lance on 30th November , 2007This story may become a very interesting one. Jeff Gerstmann, a long time editor at CNET’s popular gaming portal website GameSpot, was fired Wednesday. Current interweb speculation revolves around a connection with his recent less-than-glowing review of the game Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. The game’s publisher Eidos had been advertising the game very heavily [...]
Mass Effect: Deep Space Graphical Anomalies
Posted by Lance on 28th November , 2007Commander’s Log: Stardate 112807 I finally carved some time out last night to jump deeper into Mass Effect. I’m probably about six hours into the game now, and I wanted to touch on two aspects of the game that made an impression immediately: The visual presentation is amazing. The visual presentation is rather glitchy. Now, [...]
Mass Effect: the Final Frontier?
Posted by Lance on 27th November , 2007The scope of this game is truly galactic. I mean, I’ve literally spent ten minutes straight in a conversation with a single game character. Deep space, indeed. So, I’m not going to be penning any formal review as such. Given the machine-gun pace of enticing new releases, there’s no way I’m going to make enough [...]
(Comic) Book of the Month Club
Posted by Lance on 27th November , 2007My gaming group got together Friday for some gaming (we playtested Savage Worlds). During the session someone had mentioned us trying a graphic-novel-of-the-month type arrangement by which we’d agree on a specific book and then get together a month later over beer and discuss it. I really hope this idea flies – I think it’s [...]
Catagorical Destruction
Posted by Lance on 27th November , 2007Apparently, during my writing hiatus Blogger has decided to implement a post tagging system. That’s a great new feature, but in doing so they have simultaneously destroyed my existing tagging system, which was a Blogger hack based on a Greasemonkey script and Del.ici.us. I think my only recourse is going back through all my posts [...]
Getting Back to Writing
Posted by Lance on 27th November , 2007Well, maybe nobody’s reading, but I think I’m going to start writing again anyway – I miss it. A recent episode (#109) of the PC Gamer podcast got me thinking about the blog and why I write. The whole thing is cathartic I suppose. People have maintained journals since man invented pen and ink, and [...]