There’s, like, three solid reasons to attend the annual Penny Arcade Expo. First, there’s all the videogames. That one’s a no-brainer. Second, it’s your best chance to find out if that hot Night Elf chick you’ve been flirting with all these months actually has lady parts. Third, Anamanaguchi. Paris Graphics Anamanaguchi at PAX 2008 If […]
Earnest "Nex" Cavalli
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Dissidia: The Addendum
… and the (Not So) Mini-Review gets even less Mini. I had one more point I wanted to tell you about Dissidia: Final Fantasy that didn’t quite fit with the actual review, hence more text. I’ll try to keep it brief. Square Enix Look Ma! No Load Times! When you first insert the Dissidia UMD […]
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(Not So) Mini-Review: Dissidia: Final Fantasy
Despite calling this a mini-review my look at the newly-released Dissidia: Final Fantasy runs a bit long. I don’t quite spill over into novel territory, but after typing this whole thing I wondered where the last few hours of my life went. Square Enix Dissidia: Final Fantasy To avoid death threats from Alison “Orphan Knife […]
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Cobain Joins Guitar Hero 5
Look, if I wasn’t trying so hard to be disaffected I would be really pissed that Activision has drafted the likeness of Kurt Cobain into Guitar Hero 5. You’ll recall that this is the same game that features a digital replica of Johnny Cash.
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What If Super Metroid And Castlevania Had A Baby?
… and that baby fell in with the wrong crowd in middle school. Started smoking behind the drama room with Blackthorne and making out with Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune in detention? The end result would be something like Shadow Complex, the new Xbox Live Arcade downloadable title from Chair Entertainment. Even if you decide not to […]
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I Hope Activision Falls Into A Burning Ring Of Fire
Johnny Cash is to America what the Jolly Green Giant is to peas. He’s like John Wayne with a guitar, only no punk group is going to attempt a shot at controversy by calling him a Nazi. If Internet memes completely lacked a sense of irony, were created by Brooks & Dunn and Chuck Norris […]
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Free Movie Sunday: Second Skin
The best part about having a gig like “professional blogger” or “guy who shouts at people on street corners” is being able to pimp the work of your friends to an audience that literally numbers in the tens of people. To that end I bring you Second Skin, a documentary from Pure West Films exploring […]
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Why Doesn’t Thailand Make Videogames?
The insane nicotine headache that’s been boring through my brain all day has left me unable to do much but sit in bed, scanning RSS feeds and hoping something might distract me from the pain for a few moments. Most of the day has been a colossal failure. Then, thanks to the increasingly worthwhile Topless […]
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Geek Out
Xbox, Meet the X-Men. X-Men, Xbox.
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: What geek dreams are made of.
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StarCraft II Bumped To 2010
Blizzard Entertainment StarCraft II To the surprise of maybe one guy, Activision Blizzard’s long-long-long-awaited StarCraft II has again been delayed, this time dumping its vague “later this year” release window for a slightly less vague, but not at all better “first half of 2010.” And what’s to blame for the delay? Apparently online gaming service […]
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Neo Is Dead
July 31, 2009 will forever be remembered as the day the machines won. Or, more likely, a handful of people will lament it as the day The Matrix Online went dark, bringing an end the the nearly five-year-old online world spawned from the alternately beloved and decried-as-stoner-pabulum film series. This is where I’d normally memorialize […]