Archive for August, 2008
JJ Abrams’ Lost Thoughts on Creativity
Posted by Mr. Videogame Writer Guy | Filed under game design
JJ Abrams’ Lost Thoughts, get it? Ha ha… sorry. Anyhow, a friend recently turned me on to TED.com, a site where you can view talks from the cognoscenti from all sorts of incredible fields and backgrounds.
On TED, I recently found this entertaining and thoughtful lecture by JJ Abrams, the creative guy behind Lost, Cloverfield, Alias, [...]
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A moment of Amy Winehouse levity from Photoshop Disasters
Posted by Mr. Videogame Writer Guy | Filed under geek skills
Photoshop Disasters is often good for a howl. And it fits nicely into my “geek skills” category on this blog.
With great power comes great responsibility, yadda yadda yadda. As if Amy Winehouse doesn’t have enough problems… she now has Thing growing out of her left shoulder.
(Click to visit Photoshop Disasters. They’ve got some doozies.)
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Gears of War 2 gets a new smoke grenade
Posted by Mr. Videogame Writer Guy | Filed under gameplay
Gears of War fans, rejoice. The gameplay for those previously useless smoke grenades is getting a facelift.
In the first Gears of War, the smoke grenades were as useful as they would be in a Quake 3 deathmatch. There’s really nothing tactical about GoW; it’s a pure twitch game with zero stealth. And I’m not knocking [...]
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ACL “Sound and the Jury” contest horrors
Posted by Mr. Videogame Writer Guy | Filed under pop culture
ACL’s “Sound and the Jury” contest has started, and in a pretty marginal way.
The winner gets a slot at the ACL music festival - huge prestige. It could be a launching pad to great things for the right band. A band with talent. Too bad the bands who are currently winning are spectacularly weak. I’m [...]
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