So for those of you who didn’t know, Keiji Inafune-san, the creator of Megaman, was doing a signing at a Gamestop in New York on the 7th. My friend L and I decided that this would be a good chance to plan a grand New York adventure trip around the day, which would culminate in the meeting of one of gaming’s most legendary designers. We grabbed our laminated NY map and started plotting out the…
Read more →I've had this video on my phone for quite some time and thought I should do something with it. Something like post it. Here. It's the closest I've gotten to a perfect game of Wii Bowling. It may be the closest I'll ever get, I don't know. A strike in every frame, except for a 9 spare I get in the tenth. Here it is, my almost-legendary game. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM34yX63jDs&w=176&h=144]
Read more →Sometimes I save things on my hard drive for weird reasons. I might see a picture of a figure standing in an interesting way, or with great lighting and save it with the intention of drawing it later on. Or as is the case here, I might see a picture that Sony created in total seriousness that is the most absurd thing I've seen and will want to look back on it and laugh one…
Read more →Geez, it's been so long since I've written a blog in here, I've got to get back in the blogging habit here! Short post for today, but I thought I'd share some artwork I've been working on. First up is a short Sam and Max comic strip that was entered into Game|Life's contest. You can check out all the winners here, but I thought I'd post mine below, as I've moved some things around to…
Read more →I make it no big secret that when the original Playstation arrived in 1995, I avoided it with a seething, boiling hatred. After all, I was brought up on Nintendo, and proud of it. Throughout the 8-bit and 16-bit era I swore by Nintendo and considered Sega to be second-rate wannabes whose only chance at getting people to play their games was to make fun of us Nintendo loyalists and belittle us. When Sony entered…
Read more →So this week sees the release of a heck of a lot of TMNT goodness, not only in theatrical form, but in video game form as well. There’s the TMNT game being ported across PC, Wii, 360, PS2 and PSP. Then there’s the DS game. And finally a GBA game that looks to harken back to the days of classic side-scrolling beat-em-ups, much like the original TMNT Arcade game. In addition to all the new…
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