Round Table Entry 1/09: Putting the Game Before The Book

CorvusE, over at Man Bytes Blog, does a monthly Round Table on Games and Gaming. Here’s what he challenged with for January ‘09:

Putting the Game Before the Book: What would your favorite piece of literature look like if it had been created as a game first? In a time when bits of Dante’s Divine Comedy [...]

Vintage Gaming Club

I’m pretty darn excited to be able to participate in the Vintage Game Club this month. The games being voted on right now are (in no particular order):
Chrono Trigger
Resident Evil (original)
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Super Mario 64
Beyond Good and Evil
Any one of these will be a fun game to play, and even the ones [...]

Therapy by Immersion

I write a monthly “editor’s blog” over at GamesAreEvil.com. It’s a news/reviews/features site, and we’re doing our best to only publish stuff that matters, and to keep things this side of the joystick/1up/kotaku line. I hope that my little articles can be a part of keeping it there. As always, I appreciate the founder of [...]

The Chainsaw Gun of Gore: a GamesAreEvil Repost

This is a repost of an article I wrote over at Games Are Evil entitled “Critical Thinking and the Chainsaw Gun of Gore,” reprinted with permission of the Author (me) and the Associate Editor (me, again).
I’ve been trying for a month now to wrap my head around some unifying structure that I can put my [...]

Where It’s At

I’m a n00b to the gaming blogging community. It wasn’t until I really started to tune into games over the past six months or so in order to write about them at GamesAreEvil.com that I had any clue that there was intelligent discussion about gaming and what gaming means.
It’s the latter that I’m most interested [...]

PSP: P Stands for Promise

I promise not to just link to videos without some sort of commentary here, so let me just say that the video below really plays to the promise of the PSP. I bought one of these when they first came out. Paid $250 just for the machine, had to get a memory stick, and then [...]

The Whine of the Overprivileged – Resolutions 2009

“There are so few games that are good!” “My internet isn’t as blazing fast as it’s supposed to be!” “This coffee tastes slightly burnt!”
Complaining can be fun. Sometimes, it’s even cathartic. But I get to a point, sometimes, when the reality of the middle-class white privilege I live in hits home.
I’ve been on hold [...]