2008
Jul
New Dwarf Fortress is out
YES
Jul 14th
Awesomecast
Gamersiwthjobs is one of the best gaming podcasts out there, and this week’s episode has a...
Jul 10th
The most boring announcement ever
www.dragonage.bioware.com Look, I’m going to be honest. Dragon Age sounds great. The pedigree...
Jul 10th
Starcraft II looks really boring
From Blizzard’s FAQ on the SC2 website: How will StarCraft II be different from StarCraft?...
Jul 2nd
Is Blizzard too conservative?
In an otherwise laudatory post, Fallout 3 producer Ashely Cheng bemoans Blizzard’s decision to...
Jul 1st
Jun
Is Ninja Gaiden 2 Tomb Raider (with more...
I’ve been playing Ninja Gaiden 2, which is a very good game ( so far, at least ), and...
Jun 27th
A nugget of Dragon Age info
Remember Dragon Age, Bioware’s gritty PC-exclusive take on fantasy roleplaying? It’s...
Jun 20th
Soren Johnson vs. Jeff Green
Here is a great Soren Johnson interview on 1up, where he talks about Spore, the PC Market, and other...
Jun 20th
Is Spore hot coffee waiting to spill?
People are already creating amazing things with the Spore creature creator (I realise this...
Jun 18th
Sporations
So the Spore Creature Creator is out, and everyone is playing Dr. Frankenstein. Here are some of my...
Jun 17th
I took a bike ride this weekend. It had stormed the previous night, and one section of the bike path...
Jun 16th
The Drubbing
May NPD numbers: Hardware numbers: Wii - 675,100 units Nintendo DS - 452,600 units PlayStation 3...
Jun 13th
Important announcement
Stop saying that Spore has been in development for eons. It hasn’t been. It’s been in...
Jun 13th
Dawn of War 2
I am excited. 1up has a preview of Relic’s Dawn of War 2 up (and supposedly a podcast coming...
Jun 6th
Sleight of hand
I just can’t get into card games. As a much younger man, I played Magic: The Gathering until...
Jun 4th
Another Spore trailer
More Spore. I can’t wait to slip that hot creature creator into my hard drive.
Jun 3rd
Happy trails
Unless you’re out of work or a college student, you probably don’t have all the time you...
Jun 3rd
May
Penny Arcade overload
OK this is the last post about Penny Arcade for awhile, but I found this cool podcast where the PA...
May 30th
Rain-slick precipice of darkness update
I said yesterday that I wasn’t sure about the combat - I am now sure. The battles in this game...
May 30th
Penny Arcade: On the Rain-Slick...
So I downloaded the new Penny Arcade game yesterday, and like many I imagine, I was struck by how...
May 29th
Those crazy German kids
This Shacknews preview of Far Cry 2 makes it seem like the game is going in a very interesting,...
May 28th
Mass Effect review
Clicken thee unto this link, and inhale the soothing vapors of Eurogamer’s Mass Effect PC...
May 27th
New Spore video
Here is a new Spore video that focuses on the creature creator (which is coming out in about a...
May 23rd
Dwarf Fortress interview
If you’ve lately caught yourself thinking “man, it would be great to hear an interview...
May 20th
The paper chase
The NPD figures for consoles and software don’t mean a whole lot to me. They’re...
May 16th
Shine a light
Read this Kieron Gillen piece on Gears of War right now, because it is excellent and well worth the...
May 14th
Not chosen
Apparently, NBA Ballers: Chosen One is not very good. Making a good basketball game is extremely...
May 12th
SecuROM, DRM
I don’t know what to think about all this bruhaha. DRM for PC games is as inevitable as the...
May 9th
Use your six-axis to steer Legolas'...
Pandemic is making a Lord of the Rings game. It’s called The Lord of the Rings: Conquest....
May 8th
Ken Levine's X-Com
I forgot to mention that I’m super excited about Ken Levine remaking X-Com, which I happen to...
May 7th
Is open-world a genre?
It may be quibbling, but do open-world games constitute an emerging genre? It doesn’t seem...
May 7th
The prevailing current
Sometimes I find myself confounded by mainstream gamer opinions. For instance, I had no idea that...
May 7th
Will Wright interview
There’s an excellent interview with Will Wright about game design and game design theory over...
May 5th
Iron Man
I’ve always liked Iron Man, the weapons-dealer turned superhero who fights communism (or...
May 2nd
1up asks the question: Are we what we...
1up has an interesting feature about what the roles we play in videogames have to say about...
May 2nd
Welcome to the 21st century (GTA IV...
Grand Theft Auto IV is, from all accounts, a truly massive game with literally hundreds of hours of...
May 1st
Apr
GTA IV cost $100 million
Courtesy of the erstwhile Shacknews, it has been revealed that GTA IV cost $100 million to make....
Apr 30th
So Many Dynamos
I saw So Many Dynamos last night at a small venue in town called The Basement. Quite appropriately,...
Apr 30th
Mea Culpa?
I preordered Grand Theft Auto IV. I just wanted to say that. I rarely preorder games, but the hype...
Apr 29th
Raidrops and roses and whiskers on...
There’s nothing like drowning an entire colony of dwarves in rivers of lava to make a frown...
Apr 29th
Hawks ascendent
I don’t know what’s going on with Boston v Atlanta, but the Celtics better get their...
Apr 29th
Prototype video
Watch this Prototype video, and know hope. But seriously, this game looks pretty fun. There are...
Apr 28th
Another Company of Heroes post
As much as I’m enjoying the single-player campaign in Company of Heroes: Opposing Forces, I...
Apr 25th
5 things we can learn from Dwarf...
3) Graphics don’t matter as much as you may think This is a short one, but it’s...
Apr 23rd
Basketball
I can’t believe the Spurs are going to beat the Suns again. Is there no justice in this world?...
Apr 23rd
5 things we can learn from Dwarf...
4) Randomness is good Every game of Dwarf Fortress is an act of creation: creating stories, creating...
Apr 22nd
HOME delayed
HOME delayed again. I generally think delays are a good thing, and this is no exception. Making an...
Apr 22nd
5 things we can learn from Dwarf...
Dwarf Fortress is an amazing game, and it’s not even done. Its mantra - “losing is...
Apr 21st
Boob watch
I’d love to try Funcom’s Age of Conan, but there’s no way I can run it on my...
Apr 20th
Never let your fans title your next...
Project: Origin is a terrible name. It’s a light-brown spot on a beige wall. A drop of Hi-C in...
Apr 18th
Cleromancy
Assassin’s Creed and its excellent sales have been maligned as a triumph of advertising over...
Apr 17th
Get some engineers for this fourth...
I have comments now, so if anyone is actually reading this blog feel free to shout, yell, rage, and...
Apr 17th
Like a puppet on a string you hold on...
I bought the Company of Heroes expansion pack this morning. I am so weak. Can’t wait to play...
Apr 17th
Be my bumper-car, baby
Quick thought: Of all the genres that are bashing together in the metaphysical game-design brain...
Apr 16th
ENJOY THIS LINK HUMAN
Tales of the Rampany Coyote (which is a great name for a blog) has a great post about why Vampire:...
Apr 16th
Rockstar and the ethos of interactivity
Game design is in a knockdown, drag out fight with itself right now, and I doubt most gamers realize...
Apr 15th
oh the ride's over now
So it turns out I was on the last mission in Company of Heroes, and I just didn’t know it....
Apr 15th
When do I get off this crazy ride?
Does Company of Heroes ever end? I’ve been playing this game for what feels like months now....
Apr 13th
Thin like paper
Rockstar’s Bully is leaving me high and dry. I was pretty excited about the game when I...
Apr 11th
Here's a tip: just be yourself, but more...
There’s a new video up at Gametrailers showing some dev-made footage from the upcoming MMO...
Apr 10th
Mealy apples, global warming, laptops in...
I have something to add to the list of things I don’t like about the world: how is there no...
Apr 9th
GFW shuts down
This is old news, and I’m not much of a PCgamer anymore (besides Dwarf Fortress), but GFW...
Apr 9th
A less PC Witcher
Surfergirl says that the follow up to CDProjekt’s The Witcher will be hitting consoles as well...
Apr 9th
Check my style in an eagle-shaped...
We need another blog about videogames like we need a catastrophic level 8 species-terminating...
Apr 1st