I remember looking at the pictures of Ryan's wedding and feeling weird. It was an event, that strangely, I was looking forward to. For ten years I had been reading his thoughts on games and listening talk about any and everything. Ever since Giant Bomb started I felt like I was getting to know the crew more and more. When Norm posted his gallery of pictures, I looked at them and smiled. The Gia...
And boy is my mind blown. Lightsabers, Snitches and Doom Bots...oh my. I think this is the first book in the series where I have to instantly pick up the next book and keep reading. I've enjoyed all the other books but the crazy was the end of Wolves was amazing. Imagine picking up a book about the worst experience of your life. Reading thoughts you've never shared with anyone. Really intereste...
I am a fan of Stephen King. When I was in middle school and high school, he was the only author I read, outside of assigned reading. I read The Gunslinger when I was in Eighth Grade. I don’t really remember enjoying it. When I went to college I didn’t really read too much. When I graduated I picked up The Gunslinger again and re-read it. I still didn’t really get into it but a lot of my friends...
Dark Places A couple of friends wanted to start a book club so I joined. I've never been in one before so why not. The person hosting this month picks the book so she picked Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. Most of us read her latest book Gone Girl this summer. We all enjoyed it so we decided to go back and read an earlier book by her. Overall I enjoyed it but not as much as Gone Girl. The main ch...
I know this is mostly a video game site, mostly?? Movies have been something I’ve always loved as much or maybe even more than video games. We are now in “Award Season” for movies. I’ve watched the Oscars each year as long as I can remember. Even though the movies I enjoy the most don’t get nominated, each year one or two things does and I get really excited. For the past few years I’ve tried t...
This is going to get a bit personal, sorry for venting in a blog post but I don’t really know where else to go. I’ve talked to some of my real life friends but they don’t really feel like I feel. Maybe some like-minded bombers might be in my shoes. Please give this a read and chime in if you want!!! So my wife wants to have kids. Not right away but in the next two years she would like us to sta...
I fear I am becoming a Video Game Hipster, is that a thing?? "I only play games that were made by four or less people," might become my new motto. The idea of a group of friends coming together to make something really hits a part of me that would like to do that same thing. So I've been staying away from the big budget games and picking up every indie game pack on steam and spending hours look...
So I want to write more, which I say every year. So I wanted to write a movie or game review each week. I thought this would be a fun way to write more because I would get to watch a lot of movies and play a lot of game. Even though I'm a little late I have a review of Les Mis ready to post. I know this isn't really screened but I didn't know where else to post it. So if you want to read about...
Crayon Physics Deluxe Crayon Physics Deluxe came included with a humble bundle. I played this a few years ago on my iPhone. You would draw a shape to help solve the puzzle. The look of the game was great. It looked like a child’s drawing come to life. I didn’t play much of it but I think I got tired of it. Looking forward to giving it another shot. Hate to say it but wasn’t really a fan. I enjo...
Cave Story+ Truth be told I’ve played about an hour of this game but I want to play some more. I bought the Humble Bundle 4 because of this game. I heard some much about it when it was on the Wii. It sounded like a game that would scratch that retro itch I have. I grew up with Nintendo and super Nintendo so this should remind me of those good times. Saves really have changed. Auto Saves might b...
“You’ve never played Braid??” Calm down voice of readers I pretend to have to help deal with the pain of four blogs and not one response. I played a ton of it when it was on 360, although I can’t recall if I finished it. This came with a Humble Bundle and I wanted to see if anything was different in the PC version…not that I have a solid memory of the 360 version. I remember loving it and the p...
I played about four hours of Bit.Trip Beat , mostly because I can’t keep the mouse still and I had to play the same levels over and over again. I loved the 8 bit look and the music of beat so when I saw Bit.Trip Runner on sale for $2.50, It was an instant sale. I think this was during the winter steam sale, so I was buying up a lot on sale and this one just got pushed back. I know this is not l...
Picked this one up with one of the Humble Bundles, not sure which one though. Since it is installed I’m guessing it was the latest one. I tend to get most of the Humble Bundles because you can get five or six games for $6. A dollar a game is a great deal. Should I be paying more?? Of course I should!! So I keep a mental note and I will give to many charities when I become rich. Plus I always pa...
First up was AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for Awesome , by Dejobaan , “indie video game developer that hangs around Boston, MA.” This is a follow up to AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaA AAAaAAAAA!!! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity . I played the first one at the first PAXEast. Since it was in the Boston Indie Showcase I was able to talk to the creators about it and instantly fell in love with it. Once it arriv...
Do you ever feel like you have nothing to play?? I do! Every time I log onto steam I see new games that I want to try out. Right now Pineapple Smash Crew and Dear Esther are calling out to me. I recently lost my job so clicking the buy button isn't an option but I still need something to play. So I’ve decide to go through my backlog and write about each game. This way I get to play games, that...
My dear Giant Bomb community. I am but a simple Photoshop layman. I need your help to create a Poster for an upcoming event. Each year my friends get together for an event called Movie-a-Thon. We get together and spend the whole day watching movies in the theater. It started as a way for us to get together when we were all off at college and now that we've graduated we keep going for fun. Anywa...
I just want to take a minute, you can sit right there, I'll tell you all about a site called Giant Bomb. Kinda works not really. I love Giant BOmb. I've loved it for years but I've been afriad to say it. Tonight, after a few liquid courage drinks, I can say it. I've been watching, reading and listening since day one. This year I was able to go to PAX and experience the bombcast live. It was eve...
Here is a link to the story: http://kotaku.com/#!5770817/for-the-love-of-the-game-a-visit-to-the-american-classic-arcade-museum So I worked at Funspot, where the Museum is located for a summer two years before they started it. Since I was a new employee I mostly worked on the third floor, which is now the Museum. I spent six to ten hour shifts walking up and down those aisle, listening to the s...
The trailer came out today. I have heard nothing but good things about it. I've avoided it. Not really sure why yet. I think it's because Bethesda has a booth at PAX and I'm sure they will be showing it off. My friends and I are hoping for a demo to be shown off. We doubt it will be playable but maybe some devs will show it off every couple of hours like Twisted Pixel showed off Comic Jumper la...
Now that the schedule is out, my excitement for PAX East is getting out of control. Major Nelson is hosting a meeting on Friday morning that I hope to get to. It is a block from my hotel so it will be easier to get to then last years, that was at MIT across the Charles. I talked to some people that went to the meetup last year and they said hardly anyone was there and everyone was really nice....
Less then a month till PAX East and I can't wait. Last year was my first PAX and I loved every minute. I started my PAX last year on Thursday night witht he First annual Pokecrawl. Me and 3 other friends joined Team Blue in support of Squirtle. A buddy of mine designed an image and I made t-shirts for anyone who wanted to donate five bucks to Child's Play, the barcrawl isn't just about drinking...
Just got Dispatch tickets for June. Guster tickets for May. Bright eyes tickets for March. It should be a good concert season.
he was yawning. It's the best.
I would like to finish this quest set and they said to make a blog so I will make a blog.
I really enjoy Peggle. I first played it on PC after hearing the GFW guys talk about it. From then on I bought it on most of the platforms it came out on. I've played it the most on my 5th Generation iPod. At PAX East I entered a Peggle tourney and came in second place. I had not played the 360 version that much, that was the version that was at the tourney. Going from the small screen of an iP...
HBO - Boardwalk empire, east bound and down (6 epsidoes) Show - Dexter (have to download) AMC - mad men abc - modern family, No Ordinary Family (will check it out) CBS - the mother, big bang (new night have to download), Jin and cylon 5-0 NBC - office, community, 30 rock, law and order SVU, LAW and ORDER LA(i'll check it out), event FOX - house, glee, raising hope, running wylde I think i might...
Wish i was there. Can't wait for April 11th (rumored) Pax East. I'm hoping more studios will come to Boston after the first one was such a success.
I played a lot, maybe too much, Puzzle Quest on the DS. I took it where ever I went. It was a nice game to veg out to. When it came out on Live Arcade something in me made me insta-buy it. Since I was so used to playing it on the small screen I found it weird playing it with a controller and on my TV. I had to think about which platform I wanted to get the sequel for. My DS is collecting dust o...
I picked up Crackdown 2 and played about three hours of it. This is my story. I enjoyed the first Crackdown, surprisingly I didn’t buy it for the Halo “beta”. The hunt for orbs kept me searching and searching the world for hours. So when I loaded up the second one I enjoyed seeing how the world had changed. Instead of killing an endless supply of cronies while trying to get to the boss at the t...
I used to play WoW a lot. Maybe even too much. I did play with some real life college friends that I don't live close to though. That was my excuse though, I don't see them anymore, it's nice to talk to them over the internetica. Well a few months ago a lot of them stopped playing. It was down to me and another guy. We were doing end game raiding two to three times a week. We were getting sick...
I really loved the first Donkey Kong Country (from this point on DKC). I would play it for hours and hours looking for the hidden rooms. After many many hours i found all the rooms and finished the game with 101%. I tried playing the second one but didn't enjoy it as much and then never touched the third. I never owned an N64 so I wasn't able to play Donkey Kong 64 (I believe that was the title...
Two Week ends ago i went to PAX East. It was my first gaming convention...well first convention in general. It was everything I really wanted it to be. I met a lot of people I have listened to for Year. I didn't get to talk to Jeff from Giant Bomb but i was sitting in the first panel of the day and he came in late and sat a few chairs down from me.
On September 16, around , tragedy found me. I had rented Call of Duty: World at War, hoping I could try out the multiplayer with a few college friends. I find shooting your old college room mate in the face with a machine gun is a nice way to stay in touch. I wanted to get some practice in before I faced off with someone I knew. As the game loaded I found my first victim, snuck up behind them a...
My final paper for my first Grad school class has to be anything about the English Language. I was trying to write something about online gaming or message boards. "Leet Speak" seems to be a discourse for the internet and I wanted to write about how it came to be and if it will have an effect on the language at all. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thought I would try to go to the source for q...
Holy Crap. Fallout is out next week. Awesome
I am not a huge RPG fan. But when earthbound first came out for SNES i remember seeing it at the video store where i rented games. So what if it was a Shop and Save, they had great deals. Maybe it was the huge box or the promise of a guide to help you if you got lost, i rented it right away. I was hooked from the first dialouge box. I didn't really know the history of the game then. In later ye...
The past few days my 360 has been acting a little weird. Its been crashing for no reason. I knew what was coming but i didn't want to admit it. But this morning I turned it on and it crashed one final time. When i turned it on again the red lights of doom were there to laugh in my face...once again. Thats right this is my second 360. Last year...right around this time my first 360 got the sickn...