Category Archives: gaming
Uncommon Achievements and Trophies
I’ve been dabbling on Playfire, giving it all my online game accounts so it can track my achievements on Steam, PSN, and Xbox Live (my old ones). One thing that Playfire can do is show you all a game’s achievements/trophies … Continue reading
You Down with AvP? No, Not Really.
I’m not into winter sports and activities, so cold weather is what I call Xbox weather. I’ve started off this season of my winter olympics by finishing the Aliens vs. Predator game from last year. The AvP game from the … Continue reading
Ignoring Video Game Music…
is easier to do when it’s for puzzle games. The Year I Gained The Courage To Ignore Video Game Music
Kirk Hamilton on Amnesia
For Paste: Allow me to share that I have had no more flatly terrifying moment in recent memory than I had in Amnesia, standing stock-still within a tiny patch of darkness, staring at the floor and… waiting as some unspeakable … Continue reading
NoisES is awesome
Makes you feel like you’re using an iPod AND it doesn’t endlessly loop the music.
Nosefarts on iPhone
At least that’s what I remember people calling NSF files, but the correct name is probably Nintendo Sound Format. Anyway, Noise Entertainment System is a new iPhone app that will play those NSF files in an iPod app style way. … Continue reading
Games Aren’t Supposed To Be Fun
Tom Bissell, author of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter in Slate’s year-end gaming club: …you’re dead wrong that “fun” is the point of video games…Games, for me, are supposed to be interesting or engaging, and can arrive there in … Continue reading
Power Up! on Rdio
I’m very happy to find this album on Rdio. I highly recommend the Marble Madness piano arrangement. Christopher Willits also has a Metroid track. Looks like Rdio’s library is coming along nicely. Now if they had a nice iTunes married … Continue reading
Ultra Games for NES Commercial
This was on a VHS cassette that they sold in stores. It had walkthroughs for all these games. Without it I’m pretty sure the 8-year old me would never have gotten far at all in Metal Gear.
Riven coming to App Store
Seems to me that the iPad is the perfect platform for these games…not from a technical standpoint, but from a “oh my god this game is taking FOREVER I wish I could sit in a recliner to figure this shit … Continue reading