Giant Bad Guys
Movie poster-inspiring name aside, Captain Forever is a classic 2-d shooter (imagine asteroids) with a twist. All of the ships in the game are built from a simple set of modular blocks, like Lego or...
View ArticleImagining the Deep
Increasingly, videogames are striving to imitate the unexplored worlds of human imagination — from barely-probed ocean depths to the stalward nebulae and distant stars of space simulations. The...
View ArticleVault 13 XMas
*** AN OPEN LETTER FROM THERESA OF VAULT 13 TO SANTA, OR THOSE REPRESENTING HIM AT THIS TIME *** Dear Santa, Let me start by telling you that the dwellers of Vault 13 are dissapointed. We don’t...
View ArticleExasperated mom calls police on son that won’t stop playing GTA4
I am NOT going to bed. In real live news today, an Australian mother called the police after her son refused to stop playing grand Theft Auto 4. Apparently the cops arrived around 4 am and told both...
View ArticleBlindsight & the New Fiction
Blindsight by Peter Watts: brilliant! On the advice of a good friend I spent last night reading Peter Watt’s recent novel Blindsight. It was GREAT. Whiplash-and-flash scifi that is a prime example of...
View ArticleThe Pixel is Dead
The majestic gorilla, from primate to pixel I find deep satisfaction in the recent (ish) trend away from realism in video games. Specifically, high-quality, realistic depictions of fundamentally...
View ArticleAvatarded Avatar was just a movie
It was only a matter of time. In a convulsion-inducing metascapade of blue boobies and G.I. Georgeous, Everyone has completely lost it over avatar. And I mean lost it in the...
View ArticleKarl Schroeder in Toronto
The new Writer in Residence at the Toronto Reference Library is one of my favorites, the one and only Karl Schroeder. Karl will be speaking at the Toronto Reference library this coming Monday Febuary 1...
View ArticleBioshock VS Ayn Rand ultimate showdown
There seems to be near unanimous consensus that Bioshock 1 and 2 are comments on the fiction and theories of Ayn Rand – and especially those in her colossal treatise thinly disguised as the novel...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the Creators of Super Mario Galaxy 2
To Whom It May Concern, I have been eagerly watching pre-release material for your game, and am excited to play it! Unfortunately, I feel that it is my responsibility to inform you that you seem to be...
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