EDIT: I stand corrected. I’m crazy busy this morning and don’t have time for the whole thing, but the first few minutes were conciliatory and civil. I am thrilled to have my cynicism proven wrong. Onward. Original post follows:
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Mike vs. BJ Shea”
This image was gleefully swiped from Cake Wrecks – which is one of those sites that will steal a lunch hour from you if you give it half a chance.
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A San Andreas cake. For a four year old boy. This is like one of those, “How many things wrong can you find in this picture”, except that this one is too easy. The answer is: Everything. This is an image of perfect wrongness, from the expertly reproduced likeness of Cesar Vialpando holding a gun, to the wads of play money jammed into the icing. This cake is the work of a very skilled madman.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Grand Theft Auto: The… Birthday Cake?”
Just yesterday I said that while SecuROM is an insult to customers, it had never personally caused me any difficulty. This morning I got to enjoy its shortcomings first-hand. With CD in the drive, I click to launch my game and…
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Hm. Laying aside the immorality of forbidding your customers from making Fair Use backups of stuff they own, I want to point out that the legit disk was, in fact, in the drive.
I clicked the link in the dialog for help, where I was told the following:
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “SecuROM causes Bad Breath and Leukemia”
I’ve said before that if game developers would back off from the bleeding edge, they could do more with less, and GTA is the perfect example of this in action. If you’ve been reading this site for any length of time you’ve heard this rant before. My big plan over the weekend was to do a video review / commentary thing for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the PC, to illustrate what I’m talking about.
It didn’t work out. I’m still not sure why.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “GTA:SA:PC: Strangeness”
The journey through Azeroth and self-indulgence continues. Please follow these steps for maximum enjoyment:
Note that when I said “maximum enjoyment”, I was talking about my enjoyment, not yours.
In this CNet interview, EA president Frank Gibeau talks about the new direction he has planned for the company:
I’ve noticed this already. A “service” model. They have been moving towards this for some time now. Why sell me a game, when you can lease it to me and hold the experience ransom for a monthly fee? What better way to get closer to your customers than to enter into this economic suicide pact with them? If we die, we’re taking your games with us.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “That Explains a Lot”
Some people were asking about my particular console / gaming setup. Ok, two people asked. But I want to put this up so I can link back to it later.
I haven’t had this setup running since the HD crash a few weeks ago, but when things are working right my gaming environment is thus:
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Console Gaming on the PC”
We were so upset by the server problems and real money auction that we overlooked just how terrible everything else is.
Team Cap or Team Iron Man? More importantly, what basis would you use for making that decision?
When the source code for Doom 3 was released, we got a look at some of the style conventions used by the developers. Here I analyze this style and explain what it all means.
Both a celebration and an evisceration of tabletop roleplaying games, by twisting the Lord of the Rings films into a D&D game.
Is it real? Is PC gaming returning to its former glory? Sort of. It's complicated.
I wanted to take the file format of a late 90s shooter and read it in modern-day Unity. This is the result.
What is this Vulkan stuff? A graphics engine? A game engine? A new flavor of breakfast cereal? And how is it supposed to make PC games better?
I was trying to make fun of how Silent Hill had lost its way but I ended up making fun of fighting games. Whatever.
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2015.
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2017.
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