I watched the Super Bowl yesterday with a friend of mine who works as a game developer here in Vancouver.One of the many benefits of living in Vancouver, besides near constant rain and high taxes and all the natural beauty your eyes can take: Becoming friends with developers.A couple of things... [Read More]

A friend recently described a mutual friend as "being good" at videogames. Here are his exact words: "[Person X] is really awesome at videogames," he said.I've heard people use this expression before. "So-and-so is awesome at games," etc. For some reason this expression never fails to give me a... [Read More]

Started playing Dante's Inferno this week. The game, despite high production values and highbrow source material, isn't all that surprising or exciting. (More on the game itself when the review airs in a couple weeks.)A few things that occurred to me while playing:1. Will future lazy college students play this game instead of reading the Cliffs Notes of The Divine Comedy?2.... [Read More]

When the Reviews on the Run crew came to pick me up for our shoot yesterday afternoon, I opened the door to the ROTR mobile and was greeted by the sounds of laughter. What's so funny? I wondered.Vic, who was sitting up front, said, "You are not going to believe this, but we are dressed exactly alike."Now, Victor has accused me of dressing like him before. And I have accused him of dressing like me. We've never determined exactly who the guilty party is here.I assumed he was... [Read More]

The latest installment of--whoosh--The Internet's Fastest Game Reviews (a.k.a. IFGR) is up on Crispy Gamer.Today I tell you everything you need to know about Tomb Raider: Underworld in 10 seconds or less.Impossible, you say?Just click the link and you'll be instantly transformed into a believer.

Man, I don't know about you but I'm so fucking weary of Firefox users proselytizing all the time about Firefox. I'm weary of the slack-jawed, eyeballs-rolling-into-the-backs-of-their-heads reactions I get whenever a Firefoxer notices that I'm using Safari. They act as if they've just learned that I have a metal plate installed in my head. Then they proceed to tell me all about the marvel that is Firefox in the same manner that one might inform me that I have a second arm... [Read More]

The latest installments of Internet's Fastest Game Reviews are posted.Wheelman.The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.So. Woot.

Today on Internet's Fastest Videogame Reviews, I take a look at Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Slayer.An extremely brief look.[Rated P.N. for Partial Nudity.]

Even though I tend to think of videogames as things that either: A) come from Santa's Workshop or B) are beamed to Earth from Planet Awesome, the truth is that they are made by people like you and me. Well, maybe you. Not me. Which is why I wanted to start a new feature called Dining With Developers. The premise behind the series is that Evan Narcisse and I will sit down in a semi-fancy (or barely fancy) restaurant with developers, ply them with alcohol and appetizers, then... [Read More]

Day Six of my 14-day west coast trip and I was running low on fresh everything. Before leaving Vancouver (Part One) for San Francisco (Part Two), in the name of self-preservation, I decided to do a little laundry. I asked Vic and Marcy if I could do a load or two at their house. Of course, they agreed. (Fact: there are laundry machines everywhere in Vancouver, even in the apartments. It's one of the many lovely things about Vancouver.)Some friends of Vic and Marcy were hosting... [Read More]