Archives for “Games”

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, ...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday my xbox 360 died. Kinda funny that it happened just a day after Microsoft announces that they're extending the warranties, but it doesn't really ...

The teaser trailer for Fallout 3 is like a love letter from Bethesda to the fans of the series. It's a clear communication that we ...

I have mixed feelings about the beta. On the one hand, it's totally good. The gameplay is exactly what you would expect - sort of ...

Settlers of Catan, my favorite board game of all time is coming to xbox live this week! I can't even begin to tell you how ...

Crackdown is a great game with one major feature lacking: local co-op. When I bought the game, I was really excited because it was clearly ...

Even though Bill Gates thinks this game is for girls, I enjoy it. Take the best parts of the Sims and Animal Crossing, and throw ...