Great Gaming Heroines #2: Lightning

It all started when I made this weird, rambling post complaining about Samus Aran’s characterization in Other Msome crappy new game I hadn’t even played. Basically, I feel like there aren’t enough awesome female protagonists in video games. I took an inventory of every console game I’ve purchased in the last ten years and made […]

Three Things So Unrelated It’s Practically Racist

Unrelated Thing #1: I didn’t attend the Rally for Sanity. I would have, if I were within anything-distance of D.C., but as it is I just had to stay home and catch the highlights on Comedy Central and YouTube. Here’s the crowning moment:

That’s got to be the most important political speeches given in […]

I’m currently $200 into Rock Band 3.

It started with the typical visit to GameStop, where I had the same “Did you pre-order? No? You shoulda pre-ordered! I hope I have one left! Wow, I did have one left! But next time you should pre-order or… who knows?” conversation that I’ve had countless times before. Enduring that unpleasantness was worth it, though, […]

Let’s Play Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Survivor: Nicayadda, week whatever-this-is

I’m two weeks behind this season. Which doesn’t really matter, because this season is terrible. In this brave new world of ours, where we no longer have to watch TV at a particular time to see a particular show, it’s difficult to get myself psyched up to watch Survivor: Nicaragua. Used to be, Thursday […]

What the Lighters Mean

I have seen some people complain about various aspects of Rock Band 3. Those people are wrong. This game is everything Rock Band 2 was, plus everything I wanted Rock Band 2 to be. Er, minus one Journey song, I guess.

One of the new features is the ability to rate songs you’ve played on […]

Sharing the Spotlight

It all started when I made this weird, rambling post complaining about Samus Aran’s characterization in Other Msome crappy new game I hadn’t even played. Basically, I feel like there aren’t enough awesome female protagonists in video games. I took an inventory of every console game I’ve purchased in the last ten years and made […]

I admit there are flaws in my creative process.

One of those flaws is, I like to capitalize on the amount of downtime I have at work, and use that time to write posts. However, since the office sits behind the Evil Draconian Firewall, I can’t actually make the posts from work, which means if I do something dumb like forget to e-mail the […]

Tomb Raider Anniversary

This is a “find the line” game. To win the game you move along the line, from start to finish. The line is neither straight nor clear, and discovering how to get from point to point is where the game hides its fun. I have no particular problem withe “find the line” games; in fact, […]

If time really is money…

…then today I only have about $1.50.

I recorded a new Let’s Play series last night, but YouTube is being a bastard and not letting me form a new playlist for it, so there’s nothing to link yet. It’s six parts, so hopefully I’ll post about it here six days from now. But it’s a […]