Far Cry 4: Egg on Face You know, videogame writers aren’t perfect. We make mistakes and typos, and sometimes our producers and teammates create mistakes and typos in their well-intentioned efforts to fix mistakes and typos. Such is life. However, sometimes a videogame writer gaffe is just so glaring and ill-placed that it has to […]
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Food for Thought: We Make More with Less
Thought I’d share this interesting macroeconomic article today. The summary, sans cool graphics, is: Since the turn of the century, we mine and drain a lot less resources per dollar of GDP. We spend a lot less of our total energy to make manufacturing basics like steel (the percentage has dropped, but we actually spent […]
Videogame Field of View
I came across an interesting inquiry on Quora recently, and thought I’d share it with you folks. The question: “In 1st person video games, why don’t they introduce peripheral vision? The angle of sight seems to be a lot less than our own angle of vision.” I’ve had this complaint as well, in both first-person […]
Kickstarter Drama: Why Are the Fans Paying for It?
Kickstarter Campaigns for Veronica Mars and Richard Garriott? So yeah, as you’ve surely heard, Kickstarter and other social fundraising vehicles are now part of the movie- and videogame-making landscape. How about a little review of where two of those big-name campaigns are now? I’m talking about the Veronica Mars movie and Richard Garriott’s Shroud of […]
Are You Allergic to BBQ? And Google’s Spoofable Emails
Yes, Virginia, There Is a BBQ Allergy Allergic to meat and barbeque? I would’ve thought it impossible, but recently the intertubes and the power of science have proved me wrong. According to CBS News, increasing numbers of people are afflicted with an allergy to red meat, ironically caused by the bite of the Lone Star […]
Gauntlet Revived: Reworking a Classic
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: Can You Write for a Living? And Job Listings
Writing for a Living: Fact or Fiction? In my writing group, I’m know for being fairly unproductive. In fact, my fellow writers tend to mock me with good reason for my sluggishness. I read their work and keep up with critiques, but there have been months-long and perhaps even years-long hiatuses in my own production […]
E.T. Has Been Exhumed
Did you guys hear that E.T. the Extraterrestrial, specifically the one made for the Atari 2600 console, has been dug up from its subterranean grave? For those of you unaware of the legend, in 1983, Atari released this gawdawful game and had literally millions of unsold cartridges. They buried something in New Mexico, and some speculated that […]
I For One Welcome Our New Tolkien-Savvy Late Night Overlord, Stephen Colbert
All Hail Stephen Colbert, Tolkien Overlord Stephen Colbert is a walking, talking Tolkien robo-freak? Who knew? I mean, he is the epitome of the talented, charming uber-nerd, but I for one had no idea his credentials were quite so authentic. Colbert turns out to have major Tolkien cred, although sadly his secret supergeek origin story is […]
The Hitchhiker’s Guide Game is Back
The BBC have kindly revived the classic Infocom text adventure game version of Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” for its 30th anniversary. The Hitchhiker’s Guide webgame can be played in your browser for free… and the spiffy web version comes with wireframe graphics, sound effects, and some preset buttons for navigation and […]