Archives for “Games”

Long story short: Gabe and Tycho, the guys who make Penny Arcade and Scott, who makes PvP, are playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons ...


Zoe is Two Years Old

Dear Zoe, You are two years old, and it is absolutely crazy how much you have changed and grown lately. You've recently started going to Co-Op ...


Left 4 Dead: One Paragraph Review

Left 4 Dead is a cooperative shooter. You play one of four survivors fighting hoards of "infected." There are four stories, each with five chapters, ...


Fable 2: One Paragraph Review

While I enjoyed Fable 1, I never finished it. Like many of Lionhead's games, it fell victim to the overhyping of Peter Molyneux. So when ...


I made the mistake of reviewing both Fallout 3 and Gears of War 2 before I had finished them. I tend to play pretty slowly, ...


Gears of War 2: One Paragraph Review

If you liked Gears 1, you'll like this one. It's more of the same, with slightly better graphics. One thing I liked is that there's ...


Fallout 3 First Impressions

I've only played for a few hours, and I've only made it a few hundred feet outside the Vault so far, but what I've seen, ...


How About We Pay You?

"We have a saying at Blizzard when something looks like too much work. How about we pay you? You can work on it, and every ...


Intarwebs, help me! A few weeks ago, I watched a video (maybe a news report) about a video game company called Red 5 who recruited ...


Milo’s Game

Milo and his parents are visiting us this week, so I thought I'd post this video of a game Milo was ...


Mass Effect: One Paragraph Review

I was just looking through my draft posts and noticed that I never actually posted my One Paragraph Review for Mass Effect. And that's sad, ...


Striking Fear into the Hearts of Programmers

"In every project there is always one file that strikes fear into the hearts of all programmers everywhere. These files are usually full of code ...


WebVisions 2008

WebVisions is a Portland-based web conference that I've attended twice before. Sadly, due to a crisis at the office, I was only able to attend ...


The Best Part of Couch Multiplayer

"The best part about 'couch multiplayer' is no pre-pubescent jackasses screaming racial slurs into a headset. If anybody on a couch gets out of line, ...


Grand Theft Auto IV: One Paragraph Review

In a nutshell, GTA4 keeps everything good about the previous games, while dramatically improving most of the annoyances. The driving is slightly more challenging -- ...


Staying home sick from work and puking my guts out earlier in the day is apparently no excuse for canceling Halo night, especially not when ...


Zoe is Eleven Months Old

Hey Zoe, So much happened this month that it really feels like you're trying to make up for lost time after being sick all through December. ...


Space Kitty

Zach and Miles made a neat flash game called Space Kitty that combines my love of space-physics simulation and kitties! Jump from planet to planet, ...


Half-Life 2 Episode 1: One Paragraph Review

I was going to write a review, but instead I'm going to quote from an email Miles sent me, because he puts it better than ...


Portal: One Paragraph Review

Portal is absolutely good. The only criticism I have is that it's really short. That said, in the commentary track, the developers mention that they're ...


Halo 3: One Paragraph Review

The promise we got was that Halo 2 would be "a lot like Halo 1, only it’s Halo 1 on fire, going 130 miles per ...


Bioshock: One Paragraph Review

Years ago, Miles described to me a game that he wanted to make where your character avoided combat in favor of setting elaborate traps for ...


Xbox 360 Repairs – Part Three

My 360 came home yesterday. Inside the package was the console, a 1-month Xbox Live Gold membership card, and a letter explaining that to accelerate ...


Xbox 360 Repairs – Part Two

My 360 is on the way home to me! I got the box to ship it to Microsoft on the 16th, and they received it ...


Halo 3 Achievements

A few weeks back, you may have seen that the Halo 3 Achievements were leaked. If you're like me, you gave that list a quick ...