Splatoon is the best example of what Nintendo can be. I’m critical of Nintendo these days. Pretend their handhelds are in a nice little protective bubble of awesome that is untouched by my criticism. Nintendo continues to mine an archaic business model and stagnant IPs with forced first party development. Add their horrible monetization policies for YouTube that they doubled down
I did a small amount of work coming up with this and rather than leave it in obscurity, I decided to share it with the Internet. A few already exist, but here’s the one I came up with while watching my son watch Jurassic Park for the first time. Enjoy. General Rules: Take a drink whenever a person or creature
The following is for posterity. I may need to refer back to it one day. The TellTale Games Jurassic Park is bad. It’s not horrible but it is decidedly not good. Sam and Max is really where they hit their stride and just about everything after has been gold. I’m not sure they’ll ever top their first Walking Dead game. Wolf
An article on the Official Wizards’ D&D site focused on introducing kids to D&D had me asking myself a single question: What if video games are preventing people from getting into tabletop RPGs? I’m already scheming ways to get my son to play D&D. It’s an elaborate plan that has his mother terrified. Before I even run that first adventure, I’m going to get him reading fantasy. I’ve already completed
There’s no denying the success of Hidetaka Miyazaki and From Software’s Souls Series. They did what any good business does. Identify a hole in the market, garner a fan base, and exploit it over and over again for profit. Two sequels and a handful of rereleases touting extra difficulty have made them more than enough money. This is usually the
So I’m delaying the impromptu “part two” of my Avengers: Age of Ultron review – the more technical review – this evening to write another post. Only a small portion of people (that also know me on Facebook) knew about it, so I don’t consider it a loss. The reason? Basically I got drunk and ended up spending the last
I’ve noticed some negative reviews appearing for Avengers: Age of Ultron. I took to my personal Facebook page with a digital rant of my own. It was so angry, I decided it belonged on my website even though it isn’t video game related. Enjoy: I understand a particular gripe the Internet has with Avengers: Age of Ultron: Yes, it was an obvious
These confessions have ranged from shameless self-exploitation to silly. This one is pure shame. The first confession I wrote was a rant about Pokemon and Skylanders. The real theme of the post was that Japan is good at selling crap to American children – by extension man-children. In general the video game industry has gotten fantastic at marketing nostalgia. I have a resistance
I’ve made fun of the dime-a-dozen, open-world survival horror games before. Well the folks at Coffee Stain Studios are doing it better. They’re releasing a DLC pack for their inexplicably addictive Goat Simulator. And the launch trailer says it all.
If you haven’t been paying attention the last decade, there has been a changing of the guard. Art, the internet, and entertainment are being sculpted by a new and powerful group of people. It’s not your fault if you didn’t notice. This new status quo has long prided itself on a shared experience of social marginalization. Yes, I’m talking about geeks. If you