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(So sorry for the lag in updates, old chap. I've been finishing up a book. Yes, that one. You'll hear more about it soon ( Read more... )

Expect weekly round-ups few and far between for a while. I'm devoting most of my energy to finishing up some bigger projects (yes, including that one) and will be writing articles sparingly until I get the big fish fried.

Touch Arcade Reviews

* House of the Dead: Overkill - The Lost Reels. Wow, what a subtitle. Excerpt: "Rail shooters are one of ( Read more... )

A man cannot live on Taco Bell and pizza delivery alone. If he could, I would do it. I might still try. One day. Until then, I've decided to grow up and learn how to cook things. A few things. I can cook eggs and toast. Oh, I make a mean toast.

But I digress! Check out my cooking blog, Davey Crock's It, when you get a chance: http://daveycrocksit. ( Read more... )

Growing up, I acquired video games twice a year: on Christmas, and around my birthday. I was lucky enough to subsist on a steady diet of classics like Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Wolfenstein 3D, and Street Fighter II. Occasionally, though, a relative clueless about games gifted me a title I'd never heard of before. One of those was Low ( Read more... )

Another week in the bag, another round of articles a la Craddock for your reading pleasure.

Touch Arcade Reviews

* Gun Commando, iphone. Excerpt: "Ripstone Ltd. would like to sell you a time machine. For only a buck, you can download Gun Commando and travel way back to 1993, a year when Bill Clinton was president, Sega and Nintendo went 15 ( Read more... )

Last month, Shacknews ran a two-part feature I wrote about the evolution of the game systems--difficulty, death, world structure, and so on--in the Demon's and Dark Souls games. The feature did well enough that Shack commissioned another two-parter for Grand Theft Auto to capitalize on yesterday's new trailers introducing players to GTA 5's three ( Read more... )

Only two published articles this week, but I'm happy with both of them.

* "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rooftop Run" review for iphone: I loved the Ninja Turtles as a kid. Watched the cartoon, begged Mom to take me to each new movie on opening night (which she totally did), and played every video game I could find. I signed up to review TMNT: ( Read more... )

Until people start shelling out money for my wonderful books--only one of which is currently published, so I guess my low book sales are as much my fault as yours!--I write content as a freelancer. My clients aren't as numerous or varied since I no longer reside in the Bay Area, a hotbed of writing activity, and I do the brunt of my freelance work ( Read more... )

Approximately 5 years and 11 months since I posted my final article as a Shacknews editor, the second of my two-part series on Demon's Souls and Dark Souls just went live on the website that gave me my first paid job as a writer. I had so much to learn, and that learning experience is still ongoing. It will continue, in fact, until the day yours ( Read more... )