Who's the dog now?
My housemate is addicted to Ninja Gaiden Black, and it's all my fault. I put the Xbox in the downstairs media room while I was upgrading it (new bigger quieter hard disk, replacement dvd drive... Damn you Bejeweled 2, Damn you to HELL!
I always said I would never be a mobile gamer. I laughed with smug superiority when Ed Helms on the Daily Show ripped on the Nokia Spiderman game: "It's a completely immersive... 1 inch by 3/4... What's wrong with commercial TV, Part 1
If you use the internet at all you can't have missed the rise of BitTorrent. With a decent net connection, the world's your TiVo. I missed the first episode of Lost, because I thought it looked... E3 is a harsh mistress.
For the last 2 years, gamespot has been running on a web platform that is mostly my brainchild. And for the last 2 years, E3 has killed us in terms of server overload. First year it was a fault... Gamblor!!!
I had a two week break over the holidays/new years so I got to catch up on some games that I had abandoned. Far Cry (PC) : I started this when it came out, got through about three levels and... Case Mod
So the video card saga is over. I bought a $10 video card chipset fan from Vantec which solved all my problems. And it makes my case glow with an eerie blue glow too! Finally I don't feel like... ArGGHGHHHH: The Wrapup
So the GameSpot Hardware team was kind enough to loan me a Radeon X800 Pro card over the Thanksgiving break. Holy jeeebus that thing ROCKS. Playing Half-Life 2 on that spoiled me rotten in about... ArGGHHH:The Sequel
Hey guess what, I lied when I said Doom 3 worked fine. Well, it used to, at any rate. Now no 3D games work at all. It's not just apps either, it's any 3D application at all. (I tried some... ArGGGHHHH!!!!
After waiting hours and hours for Half Life 2 to download, I eagerly started it up. "Rise and shine, Mr Freemanmanmanmanmanmanmanmanmanmanmanmanmanmanmanmanmanmanman...." Yes I have the dreaded... Dead or Alive: Ultimate Frustration
Maybe it's just the people I tried to play with, but I could not get a smooth running fight to save my life. Nothing more frustrating than unleashing a killer combo and then watching the video go... Underwhelmed
As an older gamer I often feel really out of step with today's game scene. Lately I've got a chance to spend some time with Fable, a game rated very highly by many people. I just don't get it.... Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
That's one of my all time favorite quotes. Depending on where you look, you can find it attributed to Picasso, Dali, Stravinsky, Steve Jobs, maybe others. JSD's corollary to this fine rule is:... Mash Up
Yes, that's me in the current installment of Button Mashing. Note how I cleverly wore my Bass Kittens t-shirt (a special Jhonen Vasquez design). Note also the blatant plug for the band. The... Spaced
Simon Pegg is my new short-term personal saviour. For some insane reason, my wife convinced me to watch "I, Robot" with Will Smith. Despite the fact that I really can't stand Mr. Smith, I... Zombie Woof
Simon Pegg is my new short-term personal saviour. For some insane reason, my wife convinced me to watch "I, Robot" with Will Smith. Despite the fact that I really can't stand Mr. Smith, I... Shaun of the Dead
Simon Pegg is my new short-term personal saviour. For some insane reason, my wife convinced me to watch "I, Robot" with Will Smith. Despite the fact that I really can't stand Mr. Smith, I... Tackhead in the area!
Last week I went to a show. Big deal, you say! Well it's only the second one I've been to since Mika was born. The opening act was the mighty Tino Corp . I've seen them a dozen times and they... Burnout 3 Custom Soundtracks
If ever there was a game screaming for the custom soundtrack feature, it's Burnout 3. I started ripping tracks on my Xbox only to get really frustrated with the (lack of) speed. "Surely there... Xbox Media Center Rules!
Last night I wrote a Python script that runs within Xbox Media Center . It pulls the 10 most recent streaming video links from GameSpot and gives you an on-screen menu that you can use to watch... Rocket Ride
It's so great that this feature is finally up and running. It's not so great that it nearly melted our database servers (yet again) when it launched. We're keeping a close eye on that. I took...