Monthly Archives: July 2014
Elite: Dangerous — Big, Black but a whole lotta everything (hopefully)
I want nothing more than to be a space explorer. Get out there and find strange creatures, new planets, and get rich doing it. But it probably ain’t all that in reality. A recent gameplay video for Elite: Dangerous (beta?) shows what space exploration would probably be: a whole lot of black and silence. But… Read More »
Halo: The Master Chief Collection — Old Games, Old Tricks
Every star needs a “Best Of”. Will Ferrell has like 3 or 4 of them. So Master Chief gets one, too. (By the way, my brain is weird because every time I see “Master Chief”, I see “Master Chef”, and so when I play the games, I keep seeing the big guy chopping onions.) Actually,… Read More »
Grand Theft Auto 5 PS3/PS4 Comparison – Is Better Always Better?
Check out this comparison between GTA 5 on PS3 and on PS4. New is better, much better, but is better always better? Los Santos looks more like LA on PS4. I grew up in LA/OC, and I don’t know if that’s such a great thing. The ocean looks awesome. There’s foam and white water and… Read More »
Koreans and Video Game Addiction — What’s the Cure?
A baby starves to death because her parents don’t have time to feed her. Why the hell are they so busy? They’re raising a virtual child in an online game. A two year old dies because her a-hole father spends entire days at an Internet café. A son kills his mother because she tries to… Read More »
We Are the Dwarves! on Kickstarter – Dwarven Heaven
I’d rather be an elf. Elves are sleek, elegant, tall. Scandinavian good-looking. Maybe a bit up-tight but fact is, everyone remembers Orlando Bloom. Gimli was played by that guy who was that guy in that other movie. But dwarves need a little bit of love, too. And We Are the Dwarves! is all about dwarve-love.… Read More »
Alien: Isolation E3 Accolades Trailer – Another Spoiler Alert!
Here’s a spoiler of sorts. Amanda lives! She’s the heroine of Alien: Isolation and she survives the survival horror. How do I know? At the beginning of Aliens (the movie), Ripley learns she died of natural causes at an old age. But of course that can change if you mess up in the game…and you… Read More »