So I've been waiting and waiting to play around with the Spore Creature Creator. I finally downloaded it last night, and it crashes on me! It'll come up with the EA splash screen, then just dump me back to the desktop. Man what a bummer, I was looking forward to making all sorts of hilarious and terrifying abominations. Anyone else having trouble running it, or am I a unique case? Update! Thanks to a user…
Read more →Oh man. So many great games out, and I'm am falling way behind. For anyone interested, here's my increasingly large pile of games that I'm trying to get through: Pokemon Pearl - I just picked this one up again, after getting Darkrai from a recent Toys R Us promotion, and have been having a blast once again. I'm at 7 badges, so I'm getting near the end, and I'm trying to plow ahead to defeating…
Read more →So I don't know what's caused it, but I finally feel like I'm coming out of my little rut lately! Planning projects! *doing them*! I feel a bit like my old self again, and I hope the streak continues! First off, it's a bit late, but I still plan on going over my Katsucon experience in the near future, especially the import games. Last week I had the chance to see Jonathan Coulton at the…
Read more →So earlier this month L and I enjoyed three days of anime and games and other things otaku at the Katsucon convention in Washington DC. I plan to go into a bit more detail on the ups and downs of this year's convention a bit later, but for now I wanted to share with you a strange marketing phenomenon that Nintendo has been doing this past month. For some reason, a week after the game's…
Read more →The very talented folks over at Loading Ready Run have just put up a video that is too good not to share with everyone, poking fun at the crazy journalistic integrity of Fox News and their sensationalist piece on Mass Effect. Pure awesome. http://flash.revver.com/player/1.0/player.swf
Read more →I finally finished Persona 3! It certainly was the longest RPG I've ever dedicated myself to, I clocked in at around 105 hours in the end. My previous record was 94 hours for .Hack volumes 1-4! I will say that if I knew going into it how long the game would take to complete, I probably wouldn't have even started. I am not really a fan of long games. But there's something pretty amazing about…
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