Starting last night and lasting until Sunday, Steam is doing another of their "free play weekends," this time offering Killing Floor. I'd been watching Killing Floor but without a demo and without knowing just how well-designed it was, I kept passing on it, hoping for a price cut or something that would entice me. So, when this free weekend ( Read more... )

Season 4 of Dexter has been "okay." There have been some great moments, but a lot of the time I just felt like it wasn't as good as the previous season. Season 3 is the best Dexter's had to offer, in my opinion, and overall Season 4 just hasn't been delivering the goods...until episode four. I watched it last night and it completely stunned me ( Read more... )

At lunch I just finished reading The Girl Who Played with Fire and man was it a great read. It's a sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoos by Stieg Larsson. Larsson was a Swedish author who, for fun, wrote three novels and started working on more. Eventually he decided to look into publishing them and unfortunately he passed away before the ( Read more... )

In an amusing coincidence, two really good horror movies were filmed in 2007, shelved and were finally released this year. This is one thing that drives me crazy about production houses. They will buy a movie (or finance it), film it and have it completely finished...and then sit on it. They don't release it directly to DVD or do anything. They ( Read more... )

I am going to have to start locking my new cat, Zoe, up in the second bedroom at night. I can't take it anymore. She is the most rambunctious cat at three and four in the morning. She takes off down the halls, careening off of furniture (and me) and makes a HUGE racket. To make matters worse, Shaido feeds off of her energy and she goes crazy, as ( Read more... )

Brutal Legend is not what I thought it was going to be. Oh sure, it's funny, has a good story, tons of witty humor and is has a perfect voice cast. That I knew and none of it has changed since I played the demo. But the gameplay...it's not what I was expecting. If you've played the demo, you think you know what the game will be like...and you'd ( Read more... )

Friday night we went to see Rob Thomas in concert. It was an outdoor concert. In October. An outdoor concert in Iowa in October. Who else sees a problem with this? It was cold. My phone told me it was 38 degrees at one point, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was cooler where we were. That aside, it was a pretty awesome concert. Carolina ( Read more... )

About 4 AM I had a weird dream in which I went downstairs in my apartment to get the mail and all of the mailboxes were open. When I got to mine and went through my mail, one of the items was a late notice on my rent. Cue: I shot up in bed and went "Oh @#$% it's the 6th!" I was late on my rent; it was due yesterday. If this were twitter, I'd ( Read more... )

When Shaun of the Dead hit the cinemas, it rode high critical acclaim for making fun of George Romero's living dead series while simultaneously celebrating it. Now, we have Zombieland, America's free-wheeling, cowboy-infused take on this genre and Tallahassee is definitely the Yank's answer to Britain's Shaun ( Read more... )

I was sad when the gaming community didn't embrace Pyschonauts. Well, not that they didn't embrace it but that a good percentage of them completely neglected to know that it was an awesome game full of awesomeness. It wasn't promoted at all, most gamers I mentioned it to went "what's a psychonaut?" and it just purely didn't grab its audience, ( Read more... )