No, this post isn’t about Mortal Kombat. This is about one of my new favorite video game hobbies – speed running. A fascination I’d like to thank my friend Mike for. The video game speed run marathon gauntlet has begun! Two weeks of games being beaten as fast as possible by some of the best players in the world begins
By now you’ve all learned my thoughts on “casual games.” To annotate: I’m against them. But there came a time where all of our college friends became obsessed with Robot Unicorn Attack. It was all related to the Harmony fiasco on 4chan’s Vidya. We spent weeks outdoing each other’s score on that fucking game. We’d up the other person by
1. Visit Vogue’s UK webpage. 2. Yes, really, Vogue magazine. 3. Type ↑, ↑, ↓, ↓, ←, →, ←, →, b, a 4. Continue to press “a” as much as you like
It may be too early to think about screening my son’s video games; he’s still at the drooling on controllers age, and not quite ready to hold one. But in ten years I can guarantee two things about video games: The ESRB will still derive near sexual gratification from imposing their prudish values on art (for a fee of course)
Steam’s summer sale has a habit of sneaking up on me and ambush/backstabbing me for half my wallet every year. Well it’s done it again. Every game on my wishlist is 70-80% off. Fuck you Gaben… looks like my son won’t be eating this week.
If you traveled back in time 25 years and ended up in one particular trailer park in Jacksonville, NC you might meet a small boy running away from home. His destination: a kind teenage girl’s house that babysat him. There were a couple places he ran to, but she was the nicest and she had a Nintendo Entertainment System and
All this talk of Steam re-releasing a beloved game from my past (with some shitty DRM) has got me working up a fever. And the only prescription is Final Fantasy Seven. So I dusted off an old PS1 Memory Card and hooked my still working launch day PS2 up. Tomorrow will mark my triumphant return to FF7 a game I
Happy America day from Winsomnia. Go play a game with lots of explosions to celebrate.
I just wanted to take the time to say that I’m really excited about tonight’s Creation. I’ve been looking forward to it since Juli told me about it last week. I had a long post but I didn’t want to spoil it for anyone. Stay tuned for a pretty awesome Creations Weekly tonight.
I finally mustered the motivation to change my notification tones on my cellphone today. As much as I enjoy the mechanical “Droid” chime, I needed something more me. Where did I go? Video game tones. I ended up with the tried but true Metal Gear Solid Codec sound for general notifactions and an amputated Lutece Twins tune for text messages.