Goats: Two guys and a chicken walk into a bar…

Jon Rosenberg has been in the web comic business for a long time.  In April of 1997, Rosenberg started Goats, which he refers to as a pseudo-autobiographical comic featuring himself and his friend Phillip, though you should be aware that apparently much of their life in 1997 was centered around booze and the consumption of [...]

Star Trek: To boldly go where Sci-Fi has gone before

It turns out I don’t really have a lot to review for you this week. My weekend, which was going to be spent obtaining and playing some new games for you all, was instead taken up by Enosh, who had a birthday late last week. To celebrate, I took him back to Arcade Legacy in [...]

The Fifth Element: A lot easier on the eyes than Boron

As I might have mentioned in my article last Monday, I don’t really get much of a chance to see too many movies.  Well, that’s not entirely accurate.  I have Netflicks, and there are always theaters around if I really, really want to make a day of it, but generally I tend to avoid watching [...]

Schlock Mercenary: Live long enough to get paid

There aren’t too many people who are keen on running into a room, dodging plaz fire and battle tanks armed with nothing more than a standard military rifle and some very flimsy looking power armor on a planet hundreds of light years away from Earth.  Though, it should be noted that’s only because humanity doesn’t [...]

The Hype Machine Rolls on

I was on the phone with Tophat recently when he made an accurate observation. “Elrood, the amount of hype for Halo Reach is insane.  Even if it was the best game ever, there is no possible way it could live up to all the publicity it’s getting,” he said. “Tophat, we’ve known each other since [...]

Mass Effect: a novel idea

I was supposed to read Drew Karpyshyn’s Mass Effect: Ascension before I played Mass Effect 2. If you didn’t either you didn’t miss much. Ascension doesn’t rise to the heights of excitement and intrigue that Revelation reached. But then again, how could it? It’s sandwiched between two epic video games. It does have a few redeeming qualities and I still like Karpyshn’s work.