So, a little game called Diablo 3 came out this week, heard of it? If so, you’ve probably heard very little about the actual game and more about the technical difficulties created by Blizzard requiring an internet connection for what should be a single-player game with multiplayer modes. Can’t log in because the servers are [...]
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The Joel Ward tweets are not about racism. For those of you who don’t follow hockey (or sports in general), let me set the story up. In a playoff game on April 25th, the Washington Capitals defeated the Boston Bruins 2-1 in overtime, ending the Bruins’ postseason. Joel Ward, a black player (also Canadian, if [...]
Back in 1999, any tech-savvy entrepreneur with an idea could drum up millions of dollars of venture capitalist funding. The business plans were simple: offer their products and services for free in an attempt to gain market share, then use their critical mass and brand awareness as a tool to figure out how to make [...]
WARNING: This blog entry discusses the ending of Mass Effect 3 in depth, and as such contains spoilers galore. If you are not interested in having the game’s ending spoiled for you, please close your browser window NOW. So, I finally finished Mass Effect 3 earlier this week. After reading about all of the drama [...]
The internet has not yet had time to calm down from raging over the Mass Effect 3 DLC controversy, and yet there is news of another. There’s another little game that released on the same day as ME3, called Street Fighter X Tekken, that has its own DLC issues, and the internet collectively gives the [...]
One of the things I looked forward to the most when I was a kid was waking up to watch cartoons early on Saturday morning. It was like the reward to all kids for making it through another hard week of schooling. For four wonderous hours, the main television set of the house belonged to [...]
Not too long ago, I mentioned that gamers are very good at voting with their dollars, and that game publishers are very good at paying attention to the election results. We really, really dislike blatant cash grabs, but will rarely do anything about them other than whine on the internet–especially if those cash grabs are [...]
Mass Effect 3 is what happens when developers and publishers sell out. The game was destined to be a platinum seller based on its compelling narrative alone. We are all heavily invested in the Commander Shepard that we’ve created over the course of two games, and we’re dying to see how the story comes to [...]
If you want to get MMO players into a nerd rage, call whatever game they’re playing a WoW clone. I mentioned this during a recent play session of Star Wars The Old Republic, and the responses ranged from straight denial to a defensive chorus of “WoW copied Warhammer” chants. The thing is, I didn’t intend [...]
Right-wing politicians are all up in arms over President Obama’s upcoming mandate that all employers, including religiously affiliated ones, provide contraceptive coverage for their female employees. Since apparently birth control is un-Christian or something, the Washington mouthpieces have blown this up into an attack on the religious freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. Although personally I [...]
