Horizon Zero

Wibbly Wobbly 16 Bit Stuff

This is all well and good, but now I want an 8 bit version for Nine and Ten.

A Golden Age Of Geek

Not that I mind too terribly much, but this is surprisingly accurate:

It's great that the general culture is geeking out to an extent, but man, I had to suffer for my nerd cred. :p

Regular Service Will Resume Shortly

But until then, I'll just leave this here...

The New Superman/Green Lantern Adventures

Guest Starring The Flash!

 

Why Lydia Stays Home

Housecarl? More like permanent house guest.

"I am your sword and your shield."
No, Lydia. Those things are actually useful.

Obvious Joke Is Still Funny

Hearts And Prime Numbers

I swear, these Math geek girls didn't exist when I was in High School.

The Day I Killed The Robots

Wow, forget to post for a week or two and you come back to more than weeds. It was like Rise of the Machines here, guys. Only they were peddling meat byproducts in a can.

I've had something of a disinclination to post of late, this is true. I can't pinpoint a cause, merely a general melencholy that sometimes seems to accompany the lengthening shadows of the season.

I'll try to do better.

The 2011 Video Game Awards were on Saturday. I don't have cable, and I'm generally against these kind of things in other genres, but the saving grace of the VGAs (and I love the irony in that abbreviation) is that it's become a sort of tide-you-over-until-E3 event for the hype machine.

In other words, we get new trailers.

One such new trailer was for Bioshock Infinite, which doesn't really have a lot to do with the original Bioshock beyond being developed by Ken Levine and company. Infinite bids farewell to Rapture and instead takes place in Columbia, an alternate universe location in a 1900's era America.

In the sky.

It's pretty awesome, and I'm not going to go into the mini-controversy that blew up regarding the choice of song and whether or not the lyrics were censored - you can find all you need on the subject right here. I will note, though, that being familiar with the version sung in churches meant I noticed the difference. And Irrational may be using the "original flavor" and all, but once Johnny Cash does it his way, that's the RIGHT way, and that's all there is to it.

Also debuting at the VGAs - Command & Conquer: Generals 2. By Bioware. Becuase someone, somewhere at EA must have said, "Hey, people like Bioware. And people like Command & Conquer. So they'll obviously love a C&C game with the Bioware logo on it. What do you mean, 'do they know how to make an RTS?' It will say Bioware on the box. But just in case, we'll make it with the Battlefield 3 engine. Everyone loves that too. What could go wrong?"

I'm not saying it won't work, or that it won't be good. It was just a bit of a bwuh moment for me. Of course, the way EA plays musical chairs with studio names and all, in the future all studios will be Bioware for at least 15 minutes.

Oh, and I guess I ought to mention that Skyrim won the Game of the Year award, to the shock of exactly no one.

I really should start playing that.

Epic Strategy Guide

Serious Sam 3 - One Strat Fits All

Gaming For The Challenge Averse

You know, for when you just want to win without all that effort.