Just Try to Learn to Drive NOW, Sucker!
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Imagine learning to drive. You figure out where your speedometer is, your fuel gauge, if you’re driving a stick you learn why it’s important to pay attention to the tachometer. Engine temperature and odometer gauges likely float on the edges of your awareness. You might learn that when your turn signal blinks quickly it means [...]
Achievement Point Survey
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008I got a request to take a survey from a compatriot on the GDC Conference Associate mailing list (where we talk about any number of fun things behind your back, you should join the CA program next year so we can include you in the chatter next year) and I thought I’d pass it along [...]
Console Musings
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008I just trawled through my Gamefly queue, looking at upcoming releases and massaging my queue (i.e. moving all the DS games to the top in anticipation of GDC) and I thought I’d take a quick nose count of games I’m interested in checking out during the first half of the year, seeing which of my [...]
Bioshock’d
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007When Ms. Z brought home the Xbox 360, she also brought home a rental copy of Bioshock. I eagerly launched into the game, fondly reminiscing about the tense hours I spent hunched in front of my PC monitor listening to the pop and crackle of characters’ dying words in the original System Shock.
I played through [...]
Sorting Through Minutia
Monday, November 26th, 20071. Well, I’m forty. It doesn’t so much feel odd to be forty as it feels odd that my age is forty.
1a. Don’t forget to join the Round Table, before it’s too late!
2. I have a rule now. If the game was specifically designed for the Wii, I will play it on the Wii. Otherwise, [...]
The End is Here
Friday, November 9th, 2007I declared that certain conditions must be met before I’d type the following product name into my blog.
Today, I got an early birthday present and that condition has been met.
Xbox 360
Hell yeah! Prepare to stomp me online, bee-otches! I’ll be adding the tags of you that I know about this weekend. Feel free to share [...]