Posted in Board Games, Video Games on May 10th, 2008 No Comments »
For a while now, popular board and card games have been showing up on Xbox Live Arcade. Setters of Catan was first, but Carcasonne, Lost Cities, and now Wits and Wagers have followed suit. This is bringing a new kind of gaming to the masses that throng to Xbox live. Or, at least its trying. […]
Posted in Culture, Video Games, Personal Development, Opinion on May 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
While it has been of tremendous influence in my life I’ve made efforts to downplay my move to Bioware and my switch to video game QA from web development. I think my most measures I have been modest in my expressing the details of the transition online. But I want to share something with you […]
Posted in Video Games, Opinion on Feb 27th, 2008 No Comments »
My move to Edmonton to work at BioWare brought many things, and one of those things is semiregular video game sessions with my friend Sebastian (nee phenyx) who I’ve known for a very long time, and who started as a programmer with BioWare about two years ago. We play popular single player titles […]
Posted in Video Games, Opinion on Jan 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Every Christmas I get a little sack of money to go out and buy myself nice things. While a giant debt monster wants to eat my face, I made sure I kept a little cash from that sack to go have fun with.
But the fucking games I want are impossible to find.
There are two of […]
Posted in Video Games, Opinion on Dec 16th, 2007 2 Comments »
I will go into this more at a later date, but something really hit me as I was doing my Christmas shopping and walking past the stacks of games I hope someone will get me.
It will never be the same after Portal.
Every game I play will be judged next to Portal and suffer for it. […]
Posted in Moving, Family Time, Video Games on Dec 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
Every day we are more and more settled into our new Edmonton digs, and every day I’m getting more and more settled in to working at Bioware Corp. This weekend though was a time for family, as my wifes parents decided to make the 5 hour trek north to visit.
And what says “Christmas season” more […]
Posted in Video Games on Nov 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
Sometimes I make fun of video game music and the people who listen to it as a genre.
And then some other times I remember that occasionally you get this:
Posted in Moving, Video Games on Nov 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
At 11:00 today my wife got in a car bound for Edmonton. It was a sad an tragic moment. Oh who am I kidding with the phony dramatics? She starts her new job on Tuesday, and I am soon to follow.
So a day was spent napping, playing Phoenix Wright - Justice for All on DS, […]
Posted in Video Games, The Day Job on Oct 28th, 2007 13 Comments »
I think it is a sign that I’m a terrible blogger that in a time of great personal stress and upheaval I basically shut the hell up and stop writing about anything at all. I know I’ve mentioned that we are Edmonton bound, but I’ve mentioned nothing of the personal trials and tribulations that I’ve […]
Posted in Video Games, Reviews, Opinion on Sep 20th, 2007 No Comments »
I recently took the time to finish Bioshock. Being adorably similar to one of my favorite games ever - System Shock 2 - I was really eager to see how they finished off the plot which at least at some points appeared quite nuanced. It ended up being a bit disappointing, but we’ll save the […]