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Inq. of the Week: Video Game Playing, 2009
Last week, Bartoneus asked about what formats you watch your movies in. DVDs remain the king, with 86% of the vote. Online downloading/streaming comes in second with 52%, which I personally feel like is the way things are moving, and way better than ...
Inq. of the Week: Gaming Women
Gaming genres were the topic last week, and not altogether unexpectedly, fantasy came out on top, with 95% of voters saying it’s what they enjoyed. Second place, with science fiction, took 72% of the vote, which says I need to get in more Trave...
YouTube Tuesday: What Would Gordon Freeman Do? Edition
What happens when video game characters come to life, giant sized, and terrorize the city (and in particular, a group of video game fans)? You get Cloverbrawl, this 20 minute film that is amazingly made ......
YouTube Tuesday: Stop Motion + Lego + 8 Bit = Win
A stop-motion animation over 1500 hours in the making that has to be seen to be believed....
I Am A Liberal Gamer
I'm a big proponent of change in game design. If something isn't working, don't just patch it, teardown and rebuild. This puts me in opposition to what I will respectfully call the "Conservative Gamer" contingent, who prefer that games preserve much ...
YouTube Tuesday: This Is Pure Nerd-nip Edition
“Do You Want To Date My Avatar”, the incredibly catchy music video by the folks at The Guild....
Inq. of the Week: Cataclysm?
This passed weekend was Blizzcon '09 which came with a slew of new announcements from everyone's favorite delayed publishing game company. (Yes, I'm still bitter about Starcraft: Ghost - No, I will not let it go until StarCraft 2 actually comes ou...
YouTube Tuesday: Left 4 A Wonderful World Edition
We've had reasonable zombies, now how about a montage of uplifting zombies? (thanks, Joshx0rfz)...
Product Tie-in Video Games 101: A Lesson in Love and Paychecks
Today we're going to be discussing one of the biggest money makers for video game studios; Product Tie-ins. They are something that we’ve been accustomed to in video games, and all can form a general consensus when we hear their name said. From E.T...
YouTube Tuesday: Game Fuel Results Vary Edition
No matter how much Mountain Dew Game Fuel you drink, this may not happen to you. Also, anybody think it’s kind of weird that the woman changes into a male orc? (Via Extralife)...
Put the Phone Away: A call to gamers still in the dark ages of handhelds (Part 2)
Although the PSP is selling wonderfully in many other parts of the world, it has struggled in the US market since its release. It would be hard to call it a failure with the many millions of systems sold stateside, but it definitely has struggled to ...
Maverick Cake Hunter
A little over a week ago we celebrated my birthday with raucous partying and the like, it’s always good to get a large group of friends together for communal debauchery. However, what really made the ......
Inq. of the Week: Opinions of E3 2009?
For the past week I've been hearing faint whispers around the edges of my radar about E3 going on, but it feels like this year everything is far more muted than it has been in previous years. The only thing that I've really heard a lot of excitement...
Put the Phone Away: A call to gamers still in the dark ages of handhelds (Part 1)
Gamers have a predicament when they are away from their home base: they have a gnawing hunger for escapist goodness without a good way of appeasing the hungry gaming monster in their bellies. Too many of you are resigning yourselves to badly-made clo...
YouTube Tuesday: Instanced Drinking Edition
A very funny video of a Chinese man's life seen through a WoW lens. Even though it is in Chinese, it's still funny and well done without knowing what is being said....
Review: “The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena” (Xbox 360)
For us folks who are two movies and a video game behind on knowing what the hell is going on, here's what I can gather: Space Vin Diesel washes up on some shore, and is pissed (naturally). He also looks damn good in a space wife-beater, and has sweet...
Video Game Design - an opinion piece
LeBreton is the lead level designer for Bioshock 2. He gives a pretty good opinion piece on some of the issues surrounding the past and future of videogame design. Here is an excerpt: As of ......
YouTube Tuesday: Windy City Level Edition
“One toot on this whistle will send you to a far away land!”...
Review: “Street Fighter IV”
Street Fighter IV, the six-button-mashing cash cow for Capcom is here, and already it's being hailed as a successful sequel to the franchise by videogame critics. This is not the first Capcom foray into the pseudo-3D universe of Ryu and Chun-Li. The ...
YouTube Tuesday: City 17 Edition
Since I was sent it no less than 3 times this week, here’s the Half-Life 2 fan movie that everyone’s talking about. It’s well done, but perhaps more importantly, it shows that good quality stuff ......
