http://blogs.gameblogs.org/grownupgamer Drop the Briefcase Wed, 28 May 2008 22:48:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The A.V. Club has an amusing editorial about one writer’s experience going to see Uwe Boll’s Postal movie in one of the very, VERY few theatres showing it. When I arrived at the Portage for the five o clock screening of Postal, the man selling tickets seemed bewildered. “How, uh, did ... http://blogs.gameblogs.org/grownupgamer/?p=123 After playing through the tutorials for Rondo of Swords for the DS, I have a few notes for any developers who might happen to be reading this: 1. Tutorials are where you tell me what to do. Don’t tell me to do something without telling me how to do it ... http://blogs.gameblogs.org/grownupgamer/?p=122 After a long absence from Team Fortress 2, I returned to the game to check out the new Gold Rush update, and because Boing Boing was hosting a server. The new game mode they introduced is really interesting and forces a unique pacing to the game, but I’m finding ... http://blogs.gameblogs.org/grownupgamer/?p=121 Eurogamer has a response by Harmonix’s Rob Kay about why the full Rock Band package is selling in the UK for double the US price. It features a lot of spurious arguments from Kay who, admittedly, isn’t in charge of these things, and no small amount of self-agrandisement about ... http://blogs.gameblogs.org/grownupgamer/?p=118 I really like the idea of Nethack and the rogue-alikes (say, that would be a great name for a geek rock band). There’s a certain purity, a mercenary clarity to the genre that I find refreshing. On the other hand, I just don’t share the kind of masochism that ... http://blogs.gameblogs.org/grownupgamer/?p=117 A while ago, I came across Scratch, a programming language developed at MIT specifically for teaching programming concepts to children. Its ideal for making short animations and games and is very well thought-out. Scratch allows users to create a program out of interlocking, lego-like blocks, with each block ... http://blogs.gameblogs.org/grownupgamer/?p=115 Penny Arcade has started a new line of prints in their store called “playlists”, and the first one’s they’ve made available are prints of each of their Top 5 favorite comics. The store listings feature links to each comic. I think both of the Penny Arcade guys are great, but ... http://blogs.gameblogs.org/grownupgamer/?p=114 I’m sure I’m not the first on to say this but DICE’s “Mirror’s Edge” seems like the kind of game that looks awesome at first glance, while already seeming like a bad idea at even the second glance. Haven’t we read enough reviews that decry jumping puzzles in first-person ... http://blogs.gameblogs.org/grownupgamer/?p=113 Michael Fitch recently got some attention for a post on the Quarter to Three forums about how Iron Lore Entertainment, makers of Titan Quest, had to be shut down and how it was all everybody else’s fault. The main cause: Piracy [OMG, did he just say that?]. Yeah, ... http://blogs.gameblogs.org/grownupgamer/?p=111 I finally found a way to unclog the comment moderation panel for this blog and hopefully I can stay on top of it from now on. So feel free to comment on any of the posts, and hopefully I can pick them out of the sea of incoming spam ... http://blogs.gameblogs.org/grownupgamer/?p=106