When I’m watching a hot new show, it’s torture waiting a week between episodes. I can’t imagine waiting four months. That’s about how long fans of TellTale’s Wolf Among Us will have waited for Episode #2, “Smoke and Mirrors”. The trailer’s out and it still has no date, just “Coming Soon”. That’s managing expectations, I… Read More »
I wake up every morning wanting to plow some snow. Unfortunately, I live in California. Fortunately, Dawn of the Plow is here to hit that fix. Dan FitzGerald’s iOS, Android and Desktop game is $1.99 and it looks awesome – check out the trailer below. And then ponder on the spirituality of snow-plowing. It falls… Read More »
Games not only reduce stress, they can also help you find the perfect sushi chef for your restaurant. There are start-ups now that produce games used in job applications such as Knack’s “Wasabi Waiter”. Possible age or gender-related disparate impact claims notwithstanding, I think it’s a great idea to have performance in games predict job… Read More »
(Part One) There were some tough times after that first weekend. Jobs were difficult to come by. I used my credit card for rent. At parties, I couldn’t finish one drink with the same girl because inevitably, the question came up: “What do you do?” My entire future seemed to be crumbling before me. It… Read More »
I received the news on a Friday. I’m convinced my manager hated me because Friday is the worst day in the week to get axed. Not only was I dealing with the fear and shame of unemployment, I had the entire weekend to sit at home and think about it. It was 2007, a year… Read More »
Electro always fascinated me. He wasn’t some alien or mutant or a multi-billionaire. He was an ordinary working man who got electrocuted, and suddenly he’s spurting bolts of lightning like Zeus. That PG&E guy outside your window…he could become Electro one day. If I had studied electrical engineering, had a job climbing poles, and then… Read More »
The joke is that Lara Croft is a hot young woman because the original character designer, Toby Gard, wanted to stare at her fine backside during the long hours designing and playtesting the original Tomb Raider. It may very well be a joke, and I’m sure there were valid reasons for Ms. Croft’s hottieness, but… Read More »
The Wehrmacht’s campaign in Poland doesn’t get much war-game coverage, perhaps because it was a relatively easy blitzkrieg-in-the-park. Well, the first battle of Open Panzer’s Fall Weiss campaign was anything but easy. It took me several weeks, and several re-starts to finally achieve victory over the Poles in the 25-turn Lodz-Warta River scenario. The objective… Read More »
PvP tank games are deep-rooted in video game history. From Combat on the Atari 2600 to Tron to World of Tanks, gamers have been swiveling their turrets and firing HEAT at each other for decades. What is relatively new are PvP MMOs that are also FTPs (got all those acronyms?) Unfortunately, two of these FTPs,… Read More »
The Dark Souls 2 trailer is out and when they say curse, they mean CURSE! The art folks at FromSoftware went autobahn on this one. There are some seriously jacked-up monsters here including a mummy-knight, a baby rancor, a queen alien, a horned demon similar to LOTR, a dragon, a behemoth, and some fiery blob… Read More »