When I was a kid, I played a lot of Mega Man. I had a dark blue winter jacket with ribbed sleeves, and sometimes at recess I would subtly tuck my left hand in the sleeve and that would be my Mega Buster, and I'd play Mega Man on the school playground. With everything else on Nintendo, I think I connected with Mega Man the most. Something about the character designs throughout the series immedia...
I've been working on a Billy Kane costume for a while. I was going to wear it last year at San Diego Comic Con but didn't get around to it. Now I plan to wear it at LA Anime Expo. I've been trying to bulk up a bit for the part. Here are a few progress shots. I know I forgot to put on the belt. Special thanks to my stepmother Tina for sewing the headband. What I'm Playing: Main Campaign: Bioshoc...
He's here! This is the 3A Toys MGS Rex, special edition with scale Old Snake pilot. Observe... Thank you 3A Toys and Konami, he's a beaut! What I'm Playing: Main Campaign: Saint's Row The Third, The Witcher Side Quest: Spaceteam
Ümloud ! One of my favorite events from 2009 returned for 2010 and it was better than ever. I'm confident in saying "better" because this year my friends and I took the stage as Supercollider . The experience was well worth it. We all had a blast, and the event raised more than $11,000 for the Child's Play Charity . Supercollider is myself, James , Rick , Mario , and Alice . Bask for a moment i...
Yesterday came the announcement that the price of an Xbox Live Gold membership is going up. The new pricing schedule takes effect November 1st, with a 1-year membership growing from $50 to $60. Nerd rage was quick to bubble up across the net, some of which I believe is justified. Major Nelson justified the price hike today stating that since 2002 "... we have continually added more content and...
Wanna see how I spent my day today? Here ya go: An honorable Guardian in Coast Guard MSST 91103, serving in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, contacted me a week ago. He asked me to make him a truck themed after his unit that he could drive in Forza Motorsport 3, and I obliged. I made all of the logos from scratch, as well as the desert camo paint job. His unit patch alone contains 325 shapes, and I think...
Finally! I've finally gotten around to a little project that I'd been wanting to do since I moved to my new house. Since I love Rock Band, I knew I wanted to add the superb AK Rock Box to my living room. It's a great piece of gamer-centric furniture, and now I've done a mod that makes it even more useful. I bought the big-box version of the original Rock Band when it came out, and it came with...
Excuse me, I'm a bit groggy today. It's for a good cause. Last night I went to Ümloud , a late-night Rock Band party to benefit Child's Play . It was awesome ! The crowd had a good-spirited vibe, and Chris Kohler was the perfect MC. Check out some of these performers: Costumes, tunes, and other Rock Band 2 goodness wasn't all. There were gaming treasures to be coveted and won in the silent auct...
A year ago I was playing Aurora Feint , Rolando , and Word Jong , and the iPhone was starting to show what it could and couldn't do for games. I think I care more about the games now, but not a lot more. Like any other platform, iPhone has its strengths and weaknesses, and smart developers and publishers are learning how to take advantage of those to make games that are at least entertaining an...
***WARNING: Major Modern Warfare 2 Spoilers*** Starting up the Modern Warfare 2 campaign, I was confronted with the warning that parts of the game might offend me. I think I'm a pretty level-headed guy, so I pressed forward unafraid. I was just too interested to to find out what could happen in the game that I might find unbearable. As the lights came up on the No Russian scene, I admit I was a...
When I first heard the news that Garnett Lee would be leaving 1Up for Game Fly Media, it wasn't hard to remember many entertaining moments with him on the 1Up Yours podcast. Even after the New Year's shakedown at 1Up.com, when the show lost Shane Bettenhausen and changed its name to Listen Up , in my head it was always Yours. Garnett, it was your goddamn show, and I loved it. I'm sad to see you...
Full disclosure: I'm a huge Rock Band fanboy. More to the point, a huge Harmonix fanboy. I greatly enjoyed the first two Guitar Hero games, as well as the third, but GH3's transition to Activision's own Neversoft team brought noticeable differences. Since then, the multiple annual additions to the franchise have lost my favor, and the man ultimately responsible, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, has...
First of all, to Sony: 'grats for finally getting the PS3 down to three hundred bucks. I can't say that I understand or agree with every decision you make, but this is a no-brainer. A tolerable price and svelte new form factor are just what the PS3 needs to reinvigorate the console before what should be an exciting Fall season, full of awesome games...which the PS3 has...haters. The PS3 has had...
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon has had a 1666-week run on the Billboard charts (an ominous number as of this writing.) That's more than 32 collective years of being somewhere within the public consciousness. I'm trying to remember exactly when I bought Dark Side of the Moon. I'm pretty sure it was in 1998. In that year, the album would have had its 25th anniversary, and its 10th anniversary...
I'm moving back to California this summer. I've been on the east coast for four years (and Hawaii for three before that) and I'm looking forward to coming back. I have a new job lined up in Petaluma that should be pretty cool. I drive out in a week!
While it may be true that the annual Game Developers Conference isn't typically geared toward gamers, there's been no shortage of bombshells at this year's event. In particular, I've been most impressed by the announcement of the OnLive cloud-based gaming service. It's been covered obsessively by the major gaming sites already , but this was big enough that I'd like to toss my two cents into th...
Call me late to the party, but I've gotten back into GTA4. Game of the Year 2008 discussions on various sites, not the least of which being Giant Bomb, have reminded me of the game and that I'd still like to finish it. Until today, I had never driven drunk in the game. Whenever I went drinking with Roman we'd take a cab or get some food first. But I figured that if I didn't try it, I wouldn't h...
It's 10:12 PM EST on the 29th of January 2009, and this is how the blurb reads on the Super Mario Bros entry on the Giant Bomb wiki: Super Mario Bros. is a platformer created by Shigeru Miyamoto, published by Nintendo, and the best selling video game of all time. However, the December 2008 NPD numbers have already shown that Super Mario Bros has finally been surpassed in sales by Wii Sports, at...
I'm playing through my pile of shame in this current winter chill. I need to finish Uncharted and Halo 3, but Dead Rising, of all things, has grabbed my attention again. I don't want to go back into the annoying things that game did; that dead horse has been soundly beaten. But that is a damn good game! And there's still not another game that's quite like it. Dead Rising starts with the themes...