Action Games: Characters Part 2

So, I’ve finally gotten a chance to play some Dark Souls, and I have to say, while I like it, I’m kind of disappointed I rolled a Sorcerer as my first character.  Maybe the magic gets better, but right now, I’m just not enjoying it that much.  I think I’m going to reroll some kind [...]

Ubisoft’s Latest DRM Blunder

I’m not really a journalist anymore, so I don’t really use this blog to “report news.”  Not like I used it to do that when I was a journalist, but I really prefer to offer commentary and opinion on various goings on with various types of media, but then, we get to see stupid crap [...]

Action Games: Characters

I guess yesterday’s rant about action games is turning into more of a thing.  I guess with Zelda and Castlevania, I’ve got action games on my mind right now, but I’m not sure if it’ll be going anywhere else with this, but hey, it’s a nice topic.  Anyway, continuing on from a thread I mentioned [...]

Action Games: Thoughts

Yesterday, they announced the Fifth Edition of Dungeons and Dragons.  If there ever was a time for me to comment on it, now would be it.  So, I’m not going to.  Not for a while, at least.  Maybe I’ll talk about some ideas for a Fantasy Heartbreaker I’d like to see, but in the meantime, [...]

Games of the Year 2011

This year I managed to play a lot more games than last, so, I’ve managed to expand my list to a full 10 games this year.  I probably won’t be going back to awarding games for specific consoles like I did in 2009, since that means I leave out a few games that should be [...]

Defining Property

In the future, and by future I mean within the decade, we’re going to have a serious discussion about what property in a digital, post-scarcity era means.  We’re going to have to determine how much control the purchaser, the original IP creator and the distributor has over a piece of data and how much of [...]

A Few Short Notes on Digital Distribution

Sorry I haven’t updated in a few weeks.  I got sick last week and then the week before was Thanksgiving.  I like to be lazy that week, which is a trend I hope to continue for the rest of my life. Anyway, this article by John Walker at Rock, Paper Shotgun has been making the [...]

Sex, Sexuality and Sexism in video games

OK, I’ve been putting this one off for a while.  I think it’s time to talk about sex.  I just know I’m going to offend someone, women especially.  I just want to start by saying that I’m in favor of seeing better treatment of women in games.  I just hope that point gets across tonight. [...]

Cinematic Gameplay: An Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception review

The Uncharted series has done more for action games and “cinematic gameplay” over the past half decade than nearly any other game in the genre, delivering high action and blurring the lines between what is played and what isn’t. The third installment, subtitled Drake’s Deception, goes further in blending cutscene and gameplay than any other [...]

Taking it to the Streets: A Batman Arkham City review

Batman: Arkham Asylum pulled off something that should have been impossible, it made the player become Batman. It had a few flaws, lame boss encounters and unclear objectives, but on the whole, the game was a brutal, dark combination of the best of the Batman mythos. It was missing Gotham City, and while the claustrophobic [...]