I heard about this new indy release while listening to the PC Gamer podcast on my commute this morning. After checking out the website, I must say I’m very eager to check it out. Torchlight appears to be a Diablo-style, loot-collecting action RPG, and the art design is a gorgeous-looking cartoonish, steampunk / fantasy hybrid. [...]
I’ve become quite a soundtrack fanboy over the past year or so. My responsibilities at work have shifted such that I’m spending much more time in my office and less in the lab. That said, my brain is wired in a fashion where music with lyrics is very distracting when I’m writing or reading. To [...]
I finally got to play a little Borderlands last night. I’m very pleased with the game, and Gearbox has delivered on the hype. The game is not perfect, but has attained that nebulous plateau of polish, charm, and great gameplay that earns it the title of Good Game (TM). Gameplay-wise, Borderlands is a fairly straightforward [...]
I’ve been working on securing the ShortControlledBursts.com URL for a few months. The previous owner had agreed to let it drop, but it takes forever for the Powers that Be to open a URL back up to the public. Anyway, I’d decided that before doing any major redesign, I wanted to have all my ducks [...]