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BioShock 2 Team Boots Levine, Piss Off!
For more drama in the gaming sector, the brains behind the original BioShock game and story, Ken Levine (above), looks like he’s getting the boot from making BioShock 2. Destructoid has the scoop, and the quote isn’t very nice: 2K Boston is still recovering - a good chunk of the BioShock team did not want to [...]
Continue reading...Evolution of Water in Games, Best is Halo 3
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Laurence Hartje sends in a link to 2 interesting stories (Games Radar, PC Games Hardware) that cover the history of water in games. This is actually something that I have always loved and used as a benchmark to “feel” how real the world was. The first thing I would do is run over and [...]
Continue reading...2/3 of NYU Would Sell Right to Vote for Scholarship
Thursday, November 15, 2007
The full quote is they would give up their right to vote in the next election for a scholarship. I wonder if that stat is that surprising? Two reasons I can think of this not being that surprising is: A lot of people felt the last 2 elections were bullshit with all the shenanigans that ensued [...]
Continue reading...Adobe Captivate Review and Screencasting Alternatives
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Adobe Captivate (Buy $699, Upgrade $299) I met Captivate 3 years ago when it was RoboDemo 5. At that time I thought it was slick as hell to have a piece of software that would essentially capture your screen as screenshots as “slides”, and then capture any mouse or keyboard input as actions done during that [...]
Continue reading...Video Game Violence, AO, Manhunt and More, Part 2
Friday, October 19, 2007
Continuing from Part 1 of Video Game Violence, AO, Manhunt and More… As I mentioned this whole topic was initiated by an email from Noah Jacobs-Andresen that discussed a core point to the issue that I hadn’t considered before and one that I think made it much easier for me to think about this subject, and [...]
Continue reading...Video Game Violence, AO, Manhunt and More, Part 1
Friday, October 19, 2007
(Part 2 is here) We covered the whole Manhunt 2 debacle (getting an AO rating, and banned in the UK) a few months back and it was an interesting topic to cover. For those that don’t know, even though the UK flat out banned Manhunt 2, the “AO” rating it was given essentially makes it [...]
Continue reading...Fascist America, In 10 Easy Steps
Saturday, September 29, 2007
This is the name of Naomi Wolf’s original article by the same name. Carolyn Baker wrote a very interesting article analyzing not only Wolf’s original article, but changes that have slowly been occuring in our nation during this “twilight” where things seem to be staying the same, but every-so-slightly are actually changing. Wolf’s list of [...]
Continue reading...Halo 3 Review: 73 out of 10
Monday, September 24, 2007
Well the scores are in… Halo 3 is the greatest game made, by humans, on earth. The re-telling of the same story that wasn’t all that interesting years ago, combined with 3 new weapons and 3 new vehicles, in environments that look identical to the first game but with crazy post-processing on them is just [...]
Continue reading...Is Apple Starting to Suck?
Friday, September 21, 2007
The article more or less asks if the new big-business (read: Microsoft-esque) tactics by Apple starting to cause Apple to go sour, atleast to customers? Here I’ll summarize this for you: yes. Apple has been going down the path of becoming the next Microsoft when they got: Egotistical “king” that runs his shop with a screaming, iron fist. Family [...]
Continue reading...Heavenly Sword Review
Friday, September 7, 2007
Heavenly sword looks to be pulling in roughly 7.5/10-style reviews for a few talking points that I think most people noticed from the demo: It’s beautiful It’s nothing new (God of War, minus all the entertaining gore) It’s short… SHORT (6-7hrs) It has no replay value (no multiplayer either) I think this game is a perfect example of a design [...]
Continue reading...How Important is Fast Memory?
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
You have heard this 1000 times: I am building a new gaming rig and want it to run crazy fast. Should I pay 2x the price for the super-fast gaming memory? The short answer is no. Take a look at some of the results of benchmarking the latest cutting edge DDR3-1800 memory from OCZ here. If you [...]
Continue reading...Wait for PS3 BioShock
Monday, August 20, 2007
Putting on flame-retardant suit… I just saw this “Review” (more like blog-comment, than a review) over on what can only seem to be a Sony/PS3 propaganda site. When you compare that sites 5/10 with the retardedly high rating the game is getting from everyone else, it’s hard to think the original poster had anything good [...]
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