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…
Read more →Wow, a lot of time has passed! I'm still here, really! Since I'll just keep putting off putting up a nice sized blog if I think about it too much, I decided it would be best to simply list some of the things I've been doing/playing/enjoying, and perhaps elaborate on them in a future post. Super Mario Galaxy - Okay, I won't really be talking about this one much I don't think, because really, I…
Read more →Happy Halloween everyone! Dress up, get/give out candy, and play some scary video games! Since I'm pressed for time today, I'll start off by being a cheapskate and linking to last year's article on some fun suggestions for Halloween gaming. But here's a brief listing of a couple more to get you in the Halloween spirit, and they're free indie games to boot! Cottage of Doom Cottage of Doom takes an old school gaming approach…
Read more →Wow, I apologize for the long absence. So let’s get right to some griping, shall we? ^_^ As you may recall from a previous post, I have been pretty enthusiastic about Valve’s puzzle title Portal, which started life as a freeware game made from a group of students titled Narbacular Drop. I’m also a big fan of the Half-Life series. I don’t really like many first person shooters, but Half-Life 2 completely sucked me in,…
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