Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

There was a ton of cool stuff in today’s Über Update, Valve’s “biggest, most ambitious update in the history of Team Fortress 2.” We got new weapons and items for all but one of the classes (why no Engie love, Valve?), a new map and, perhaps most importantly, the announcement that Team Fortress 2 would henceforth [...]

I’ve taken on some commissions over the past few months so I thought I’d make it official by throwing some information out there that’ll hopefully make the process a little easier on both ends. Check out the details here.

A lot of noise has been made in recent years over video games and whether they can be considered art or not and I’ve think I’ve come up with the perfect cop out answer: If art is subjective then it stands to reason that the decision to classify video games as art or not should [...]

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was the last piece in the Scott Pilgrim comic/game/movie trifecta that I experienced and, going in, it was the one I felt most ambivalent about. I understand and appreciate the appeal of Brian Lee O’Malley’s original comic but, three volumes in, and I ultimately felt it just wasn’t for me. The downloadable game has one of my favorite [...]

Bit For Byte is my foray into this podcasting business. My friend Mark and I have been working on this for a while now, figuring out a bunch of stuff on the fly and generally having a good time with it. Bit For Byte is primarily a video game podcast where we’ll be reviewing contemporary [...]

Choosing the ten best video games from ten years’ worth of titles is hard. I made such a list and did so with a lot of thought and honesty but two months after throwing them on the web and I’ve realized that I made a huge disservice to one game in particular. Now, I’m not [...]

The entirety of Megadeth’s seminal Rust In Peace (perhaps my favorite album ever) is now available for Rock Band as DLC. Time to dust off those plastic guitars and rock out to Holy Wars.

With all the God of Wars and Devil May Crys and Ninja Gaidens out there, it’s hard to recommend Sega’s Shinobi for the PS2 to action game aficionados. This is a game with simple graphics and repetitive combat that is very difficult and oftentimes cheap. It’s a game with a score of 71 one at [...]

Fresh from the oven. The reasoning behind me doing this picture is very simple: Step 1: Draw Mario brutally fighting Sonic. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit. If that’s not clear enough, click below to read more (and for progress animation).

Yeah, I know. If you look at my previous post and do the math, you can figure out four of the top five games listed below by just looking at the image above but hey, it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey. Or something like that. My excuse is that I hadn’t finalized [...]