While changing over the layout of the blog a few weeks ago and updating the bits of it that inevitably broke while doing so, it occurred to me I never said anything about Petz Fashion: Dogz and Catz coming out for the Nintendo DS earlier this summer. Let’s fix that now, shall we?


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Long time readers (yes, yes) will recall the heady days of 2008 when I wrote a not entirely regular column about comics called Comics Are Expensive. Each installment featured a handful of reviews of the books I’d bought that week, covering a wide spread of offerings from the likes of Marvel and DC to tiny self-publishers and everything in between ( Read more... )

I love the simplicity of the controls in Trials HD. One button makes the bike go, one button makes it stop, and slight taps to the left stick makes the little guy lean forward or back on his bike. It’s everything you need to get through the game’s many stunt tracks, from the earliest “this is what a ramp looks like” tutorial stages to the crueler ( Read more... )

So a few months ago I wrote a post weighing in on the whole “are games art?” thing. It wasn’t exactly a new topic at the time, and several (often smarter) people and articles appearing in industry magazines and sites have gone on to beat the point even further in to the ground, but it was nice to get out of my head and written down, and it ( Read more... )

The question of when videogames will have their own Citizen Kane - that is, one that provides the great leap forward from embarrassing hobby to legitimate art form so desperately craved by so many - seems to crop up more and more with each passing month. It’s the bad penny of games journalism, the go-to question whenever a developer talks up their ( Read more... )

Alexandra Pusateri, games reviewer and columnist (and apparently a force to be reckoned with as the Sniper in Team Fortress) does a regular column at pop culture catch-all 411Mania called Reality Check, in which she explores the lesser known corners and real world ramifications of videogames. For her latest column, for reasons that may never be ( Read more... )

I really should have mentioned this earlier, as it’s both something I find incredibly interesting and feel deserves all the support it’s possible to give. Ian Schreiber, game designer, teacher, and co-author of Challenges For Game Designers with Brenda Brathwaite (you can find his blog on teach game design here and while you’re at it, check out ( Read more... )

And back to blogging.  Again.  Something more like a proper post should be up in the next day or so, and hopefully more should follow that in an ever-so-slightly more timely fashion.  The last five months have been very, very busy and then very, very lazy, and I feel the need to shake off some cobwebs.  And it’s also good to make sure I still ( Read more... )

It’s very easy in Fallout 3 to stumble in to situations you just aren’t ready for. What’s left of the world has had a good long while to get used to the kill-or-be-killed side of post-apocalyptic living, meaning by the time you arrive on the scene they’ve all formed little gangs to handle gun toting loners like, well, you. Raiders and slavers ( Read more... )

I just saw Adult Swim has a new game up on their website, and hey, it’s one I had a (very small) hand in. It’s Dungeons And Dungeons, a side-scrolling leather-em-up through an S&M dungeon gone horribly, horribly wrong. Don’t worry, it won’t bite. Unless you ask nicely, of course.


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