Quest to Nowhere

Embed below is 1up.com new show, RSVP. It’s a really interesting round table discussion between Erik Wolpaw (from Valve, having worked on Portal as well as Psychonauts,) Dylan Cuthbert (the head of Q Games who are behind the PixelJunk games, and he worked for Nintendo of Japan on the original StarFox,) and Jonathan Mak (the one man team behind Everyday Shooter.) I love listening to game creators talk like this, you always hear some really interesting things. I can’t wait to see what they do/who they have in the next episode…. Continue Reading

I was going to write up a a good sized review of the Penny Arcade game, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One, but I’m not sure there is really all that much to say about it. I mean if you’re a fan of the comic, you are most likely going to buy it, and I would certainly recommend that you do. I thoroughly enjoyed the game from start to finish, but I can certainly see it not being everyone’s cup of tea. Continue Reading

Now I’ve written a number Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero posts here in the short time I’ve been doing this blog, (two is a number,) and now I feel that is time for another one. What has brought this on is the Game Informer magazine cover story on Guitar Hero IV, and you can probably guess my opinion on the game from the title of the post. Continue Reading

I signed up for Twitter a few weeks ago, mostly because it seemed like everyone was talking about it. So I figured what the hell I’d give it a try. After trying it a bit I can see there being some reasons to use it, but I’m not sure many people are using for reasons that are actually productive.

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