I have a nearly five-year-old daughter, and she is of the inquisitive type. A day with her is a nonstop barrage of questions followed by her own personal extrapolations based on the answers to the questions. I wouldn’t call her… Read More ›
Month: April 2011
(Said in a Yell) Mortal Kombat!
Back when I was in high school, more years ago than I care to remember, I had an English teacher who liked students to write short papers. He would tell us this on a fairly regular basis and would always… Read More ›
GLaDOS Lives: Portal 2
People like to make things complicated that don’t have to be. It happens in life and it happens in the world of videogames. Look at some of the progress trees games like those in the Final Fantasy series sport. They… Read More ›
Semi-Delightful, Sort of Delicious, Almost De-Lovely
The biopic has been done before… repeatedly. We have all seen dozens of biopics – if there’s a famous person whose life may be remotely interesting, why not making a movie out of it? The only real question then becomes,… Read More ›
The Secret of NIMH – The Story Goes Blu (but not with a Particularly Good Release)
Don Bluth, a legendary figure in the world of animation, may have, at least in part, come out of the Disney tradition, but looking at his first full length animated feature, The Secret of NIMH, one wouldn’t think Disney. Based… Read More ›
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Shadow Wars – Long Name, Mediocre Game
I am a fan of turn-based games, be they Civilization-style or more action oriented. The idea of being able to plan three, four, five, and more (if you’re good) moves ahead and outfox your opponent appeals to me. It was… Read More ›
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution: Could he be for Real?
I want to believe. Famously, Fox Mulder had a poster in his office which had that line written and depicted a UFO. I don’t know how I feel about UFOs and whether or not I have any desire to believe… Read More ›
Heading Back to the Future for Episode 3 of the Telltale Series
Marty McFly is back… again. Telltale Games has released the third episode in their Back to the Future: The Game series and this time we find poor Marty back in 1985, but a (different) alternate 1986. As with the other… Read More ›
Hitting the Asphalt in 3D
Asphalt 3D is not exactly what you would call a simulation racing game. In fact, if, rather than stating that all racing games were either simulation or arcade you placed them on a continuum with simulation on one end and… Read More ›
A Milkman, A Fiddler, and Tradition Walk into a Bar…
The Norman Jewison directed 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof is unquestionably about Judaism and Jewish tradition, but the truth is that it’s also about so much more than that. It’s about the human condition; it’s about family; and it’s… Read More ›
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D – More Than Just a Pretty Face?
After playing Madden NFL on the 3DS and being sorely disappointed with the result, we ended up with the perhaps irrational fear that it was going to be impossible for a developer to put together a fun, exciting, enjoyable sports… Read More ›
Shift 2 Unleashed – Releasing Your Inner Stig
In the end, the point of videogames is to provide an enjoyable experience. Be the game big or small, wholly immersive or quick and surface level, you should enjoy the time that you’re playing them. Better games, however, are the… Read More ›
Taking a Listen with Marc Ecko’s UNLTD.SOUND Force Headphones
Over the course of the past 20 or 25 years, the use of headphones has grown in incredible ways. Jump on a subway in New York City and you’ll see a huge number of the now iconic white earbuds that… Read More ›
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