Unlike a lot of the beautiful, heartfelt blog posts about Ryan Davis I've seen this week, this one isn't going to have some poignant, personal experience on my part. I'm afraid I never had the privilege to know Ryan personally or even meet him in passing, which I will eternally regret. Hell, the closest Ryan ever came to knowing I existed was a forgettable (for him) moment on one of him and Jef...
After watching quite a few of them on YouTube, I finally went and started a Let's Play of my own, of American McGee's Alice . I didn't realize there were quite that many LPs of the game when I started, but screw those guys, I wanted to play Alice so that's what I'm playing. I had no idea what a hassle it would be to actually record and upload video to YouTube, but I was pleased with the end res...
Okay. Gonna come clean. Earlier this year (it's still 2009, right?), I saw that someone had created a concept page here on Giant Bomb for the act of a character swallowing another character whole. Alright, good call, that actually happens more often in video games than I'd thought. The problem was that this person had chosen to title the page "vore". Because I am familiar with many varieties of...
I gotta say, I don't understand all the bashing that local multiplayer gaming's getting these days. I've never so completely disagreed with Jeff Gerstmann on something, but there it is: split-screen multiplayer is still, without a doubt, better than online play. Okay, any more than two players and the screen crowding is ridiculous. That's a fundamental problem. But I see it as about even to the...
So last week, after IGN put out their review, I finally gave in and pre-ordered inFamous , the electric superhero game. (As I like to call it, "The Adventures of the Human Pikachu ." It wasn't the number, it was the fact that the guy who wrote the review was totally stoked about it. He genuinely enjoyed playing through inFamous , and I got the distinct impression that he's going to go back to i...