It has been 3 long weeks since I last posted something here. That is my fault and I apologize. Life gets away from you sometimes. I'll try to catch us all up.

Muramasa: Demon BladeI had been meaning to write about this game for a long time. Made by Vanillaware, the same people who brought us Grim Grimoire (a game I've never personally played) and ( Read more... )

It's surprisingly good. Much like Crisis Core, it is a game intended to simultaneously make Square-Enix alot of money while actually serving a purpose by plugging huge plotholes in the Kingdom Hearts storyline. Unfortunately, in true Square fashion, they did this by introducing a new character (who is fairly interesting) which inevitably leads to ( Read more... )

I generally don't like to play games that would fall under the "rental" library. You know what I'm talking about. Those games that don't look nearly good enough for you to throw down your money for that you end up going to a Blockbuster for or getting from GameFly. Still every once in awhile, I stumble upon something I thoroughly enjoy in the ( Read more... )

Zombieland is a pretty interesting movie. As one might suspect from the trailers, it is mostly a comedy movie that happens to feature zombies rather than a zombie movie that's sort of funny. I sort of like that the zombies aren't a crude metaphor for consumerism and that they seem to have intelligence in the movie. It's also interesting to see that ( Read more... )

Crash Course is just plain disappointing. Did I really just pay around 5 dollars for a 2 act borefest of a campaign? And PCs get it for free? What a joke. So much for continued support for L4D. I want my money back.

There's been some controversy over Halo: ODST, mostly surrounding its price. The customers are under the impression that they are being screwed over the price, paying for what they consider too little content. Bungie, on the other hand, argues that ODST is now a full game and worth full price ( Read more... )

Surrogates is a movie about a gigantic MMO such as Second Life taking over the real world in which people start living their lives through an avatar, in this case a robot called a surrogate. From what I understand, this movie was based on a comic book but I'd never heard of it until the movie came out so I can't comment on that. What I can comment ( Read more... )

Thursday (9/24) was the first day of school for the University of California schools (since most of them are on a quarter system) but I from what I understand, it wasn't exactly an uneventful one. There was this big UC wide protest against the rising prices of tuition. They used the relatively complicated term "protesting against the further ( Read more... )

Sometimes I have some random thoughts. Today (and for nearly a month now), I've had giraffes on my mind ( Read more... )

Every once in awhile, I feel an undeniable need to import some shiny object from Japan. Often this takes the form of video games (recently Fate Unlimited Codes and Melty Blood Actress Again) but I face one constant enemy in my need to be a consumer whore. Region locking. You know. That exceptionally annoying feature that prevents you from being ( Read more... )