It’s already been a decade… Hard to believe. I’ve played so many games over the years, some of which I forgot, that this list was hard to come up with. (And before anyone brings them up, no I have not played Ico or Shadow of the Colossus.…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
The plot: You are a pig on a jet ski making money and spending money.
The point: Our nation is on the brink of a fiscal meltdown and we need your help to fix it. Education is our first step to a recovery.
http://www.indebted.com/the-game/debtski/
Thanks for the link Jamie this was a real find.
Brace yourself for this one. A wave of nostalgia is probably going to hit you, and it might knock you off those stilettos/crocs. Don’t rush the photo below. It’s not for scanning. Find the year you were born, and savor each capitalist holiday miracle. I imagine most will trigger a memory- hopefully some happy. For some (and this is wild)…
While everyone’s going off about balloons and Pakistan, I thought I’d bring you a nugget of real news. Something worth your time if you’re a fellow aficionado of games played on boards. It seems, friends, that Clue has gone 2.0.
Clue has always been my favorite board game (despite what I wrote on this very blog a few months ago…) and…
We have all become loot whores. That has to be the explanation.
The next time your kids (who are we kidding- your significant other) starts letting the cleanliness slip a little bit at the old homestead, turn him onto this little game- Chore Wars. Control, thy name is RPG.
Chore Wars lets you claim experience points for household chores. By getting other…
Ah the braniacs who use their powers to facilitate procrastination for all mankind…
Can’t You See I’m Busy! is a (hopefully growing) set of games that look like Excel and Word documents to any passerby at the office. Play Arkanoid inside a Word document, a cool Tetris/Bejeweled puzzler in graph form, and a spaceship game with line graphs. Hopefully the next…
Ah, the console wars, a debate as eternal as the dubbed vs subtitled anime one. I’ve always tried to stay out of it, as my reasoning for getting my Xbox 360 laid in my disability. With the recent price cut, and my subsequent purchase, of the PlayStation 3 however, I now have an opinion about this topic. For the 360…
Allow me to Infomercial you for a second.
Isn’t Gaming a Hassle? Turning on your television, picking up your controller, turning on your console, waiting for a game to load, turning it off when you’re done.
It’s a short-attention span world. We all want distractions, and the easier the better. That’s why there are web games. Little windows, running on Flash, Unity…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
The best part about playing Wolfenstein is that I got to jump into one of my favorite universes, and get to kill some Nazis in brilliantly gory ways. Unfortunately, this installment of the game graphically is missing some undefinable soul. ‘Id’ commonly makes great shooters, and I’m not quite sure what happened here. It’s not that the fun is gone…
PopTen’s manicure of choice for all those soon-to-be Homecoming Queens.
[Thanks Wonderland]
More pics after the jump…
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…