While I was on a 4 day roadtrip to Edmonton and back, Michelle sent me a bunch of Steam gifts from the summer sale I was missing. That ... Read more ...

007: Blood Stone was on sale on Steam today. For 13 bucks, I could go see a movie, or play through one. Blood Stone plays as close to ... Read more ...

Ahhh lists. Everyone likes to make lists. I have a hard time making them myself, because invariably I have to break them down into smaller categories. For instance, ... Read more ...

So EA is yanking games from Steam (starting with Crysis 2), with some sort of half-assed plan to face off against Steam directly. More competition in digital distribution ... Read more ...

The MMORPG market is certainly not “Wee” or even “Not So Wee”, but as far as I can tell, it hasn’t bridged the gap to “Friggin’ Huge” like ... Read more ...

A few years from now, to play a game online I may have to: Pay the usual box price for the game. Pay my ISP an extra fee ... Read more ...

ATI (AMD) versus Nvidia is a bit like arguing Mac versus PC. Bias can be inherent, but there’s a point to it beyond just brandname preference. I’ll temper ... Read more ...

Brink is just about to be released and I’ve barely had time to play Portal 2. I’d love to put a lot of time into both of them. ... Read more ...

This came up in an email discussion lately, with a comparison between the few static maps in Left4Dead versus the infinite world possibilities with Minecraft. These two games ... Read more ...

The premise for No Time to Explain is brilliant. Simple, poetic and self-explanatory, kinda. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkXeiSqp-Qs I noticed this one on Kickstarter, where they’re doing quite well at crowd-funding ... Read more ...

Back in the fall, after the core of our guild transformed itself into a game development group, Nelg said to me: “This has replaced my urges to play ... Read more ...

I’ll let this screenshot say it for me:

I just got around to reading “Death of the Mod?” over at Robert Yang’s Radiator blog. It’s a worthy read and overall insightful. I thought I’d throw in ... Read more ...

My Aperture Science Cooperative Testing Type is: Turret No nonsense and all business, you don’t have time for anything not immediately in your field of vision. Look for ... Read more ...

I loathe tutorials. Which is weird, since I’m not against reading manuals (by some people’s definition this may question my male gender). When I’ve felt like being rude ... Read more ...

Brink’s release date was bumped up to May 10th. It’s not too often that a much-anticipated game comes out sooner than expected. I’ll take this as good news ... Read more ...