Today is October the fourteenth. In exactly five days, my social life will be over. Why, you ask? Three words: Fallout New Vegas. I will be waiting anxiously the Monday night beforehand, and when the clock strikes midnight and I grab my Collector’s edition copy, I will drive back to my apartment and no one
This week on the Podcast we get branded with some logo talk. Travel to OA for some Green Lantern News. Visit our favorite X-Chickens for some X-men Arcade News. Discover the joys of Flat Stanley. Rock out to some Blizz Con. Then discuss what Upcoming Video Games are we looking forward to. Announcements Every Tuesday
If any of you tuned into “30 Rock” two weeks ago (ep. title “The Fabian Strategy”), you may have concluded two ideas: 1) Tracy Morgan should always be on “Cash Cab” for the sake of genius comedy and 2) Jack Donaghy plays Snood. The indie-developed flash phenomenon has been mentioned several times out in the
Today, on GameInformer.com, VALVe has announced Defense of the Ancients 2 (DotA 2) coming to PC & Mac next year. Sure, there are already games out already that are free-to-play like HoN and LoL (League of Leagends), but VALVe will be doing something different. Valve is updating its Steamworks system specifically for the game, and in addition
The holidays are almost upon us, and the games couldn’t be any bigger. Sequels are bombarding us around every corner; only time will tell if they can live up to their predecessors. In the hopes that they will (I’m looking at you Fallout: New Vegas), here are some sequels from this generation that delivered on
At NYCC, to excite the crowd even more about the long-awaited Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Capcom employees allowed us to play the game and also announced four new characters. While there, I was allowed to play the game for a while. The game runs extremely smoothly and is also a ton of fun. Frankly, I
Hosted by James Huneycutt and with Bob Beshere, Justin Biegger, Rett Lucas, and Shauna Smith, The Water Cooler is a bi-monthly podcast. The Water Cooler is a roundtable breakdown of the week’s events, a primer in nerd news, a dose of geek rant and some generally fascinating conversation between a few generally fascinating people! Check it
Once again I don my Pontification Hat (it’s comfy!). Consider this, gentle reader: most writers do not pluck their inspiration fully-formed from the ether. Sometimes it’s more of a mugging, the writer rifling through the pockets of an influential story for interesting storytelling devices. We call the worst of these secondhand storytelling conceits cliches, but
New York Comic-Con: a place where people can break out of their shells and show off versions of their favorite characters. As with all comic-cons, there were hundreds of people participating in the cosplay. Although most of the costumes were a bit questionable, there were those that stood out and kept our attention. Go past the break