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Recent discussions about how Samus Aran is no longer allowed to fire her gun or scratch her ass without written permission from her commanding officer has led me to think about the sorry state of female video game characters overall. This doesn’t have to degenerate back into the same old sexism debate (although it may [...]

I work best when I’m allowed to go at my own pace. One of my tasks at the office is to sort all the outgoing mail. In order to accomplish this task I have, over a period of several months, developed an incredibly complex procedure which you would likely try to talk me out of [...]

When a buddy asked me recently how much I would pay for an upgraded Boston track pack for Rock Band 3 my answer was something like, “If they made me pay anything at all, I’d be incredibly pissed.”
This led to a short discussion about whether or not it was okay for Harmonix to charge you [...]

Sort of.
It’s my fervent hope that those links will start becoming active in the upcoming days, because many of those Let’s Plays are works of true brilliance. The amount of work required to properly archive them all is daunting, so I’m chipping in by sorting out the nearly 3,000 images in my own RHEM and [...]

I’m still not sold on Metroid: Other M. First of all the title is stupid. Second of all, the marketing blitz surrounding the game (such as it is) is heavy on showing us clips from cutscenes rather than actual gameplay. Which is like… who plays Metroid for the cutscenes? Does anyone care about the tortured [...]

After about a month of not gaming, it looks like there’s going to be some of that happening tonight. So the time I was going to use for this blog post got cut short. Excellent news for me, not so much for you. That’s life on the edge, baby.
I had a post drafted about Rock [...]

Hi, I’m Brickroad, and I’m a recovering Achievement Whore.
Looking at the achievement list for a game used to inspire me to do crazy things. The day I bought my Xbox 360 and learned what gamerscore was, games stopped being fun for their own sake. There was now this over-arcing meta-goal I had to achieve, over [...]

I love each and every one of my blog readers and YouTube subscribers like the brother I never had*, but all the same it’s exciting to get recognized by someone awesome. By which I mean, when your fun little YouTube Let’s Play series gets linked up by WayForward’s official Shantae blog, you get this warm [...]

Well, since I have nothing recorded and not really a lot of desire to do any real recording, I figured I might open the floodgates. Someone recently (and jokingly?) suggested I do an LP series of the entire Suikoden soundtrack in Audiosurf. I thought that was a pretty dumb idea, since that series would take [...]

So here’s a cute little Flash game where you can test your encyclopedic knowledge of video game screenshots: Geek Mind. The premise is simple: you see a screenshot from a video game, and you type what game it is. Get it right and you get points.
The trouble with it is that if you’re even a [...]