So PAX East 2010 weekend came and went in a blur. One big, crazy, explosion of games blur. Highlights of the weekend include getting to see Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade in person (of course), getting to see an early screening of Get Lamp (an upcoming documentary on text adventures and interactive fiction), the Omegathon finals, and getting to see a live podcast recording of the 1Up Retronauts show. Really, it was such a…
Read more →Finally, I can play a complete RPG from start to finish with no problem, even with my full-time job and part-time graduate classes! Synopsis Quest from Skipmore is a complete old-school RPG experience, chopped into 25 game segments, each lasting under one minute. It's WarioWare meets Dragon Quest! I found this game to be incredibly charming, and some of the segments played on your expectations making a deviously fun challenge, even if the challenge is…
Read more →So it used to be that Disney had a ton of VHS collections with all kinds of themes. They had a couple that either directly dealt with Halloween, or were just a bit on the scary side. So this year I thought it'd be cool to grab one of those collections and watch some of these great cartoons, and wouldn't you know it, they don't make a Halloween DVD collection! What a waste! So I…
Read more →Man I get so excited every year for Halloween! By this time I'd planned on having played at least a few scary games to get me in the mood, but darn Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days had to come out on DS recently and get me hooked! I haven't been able to stop playing it, and as such my scary games have so far gone unplayed. The small, mission-based format of the game makes it easy…
Read more →So I've been trying to be a little more constructive lately, and challenged myself to do one drawing a day, Monday through Friday of this past week. Thursday was the only day I missed, but I still consider it a success, as I continued on Friday and still, just getting in the habit of putting an hour or so aside in my day to draw has felt pretty good. Most of this ended up in…
Read more →The big show video game show that is the Electronics Entertainment Expo is almost upon us, so I thought I'd throw out some of the things I'd like to see at this year's show. This is pretty much simply wishful thinking, as I'm going to throw speculation and educated guesses and whatnot right out the window. This is simply a list of what I think would make for an awesome E3 show. I realize that…
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