Sam and Fuzzy: Is mostly about ninjas and demons

Happy new years from Faceplant!  May your year be full of enough movies, video games, comics and books to drive a man insane.  What?  You want more than that in 2011?  Food?  Absolutely not!  Get back to your computer screen and start searching for something awesome THIS INSTANT.  Okay, well, you can read this first.  [...]

Demon’s Souls….yes, it’s supposed to be plural

Remember back in the day?  When games were on enormous cartridges you had to blow into to make work?  Developers were wily then, because they realized something.  “Hey!  Our game isn’t very long because it’s not the future yet!  How can we make this short game longer?  I know, let’s make it really god damn [...]

What I want for Christmas from video games

I’m angry.  I was never a Scrooge before.  Holiday time!  Trees! Presents! Santa!  But not anymore.  Oh no those magical childhood days of unicorns and guitar playing chimpanzees (my childhood was freaking great ok) are over.  How can I tell?  I don’t want new video games for Christmas.  Games worthy of our duckets come out [...]

Post 100- Everything you want to see

Okay, this is it!  The 100th post of Faceplant!  Enosh, Elrood and I are pretty excited about it, though that’s mainly because I’m pretty sure all three of us never actually expected to be able to keep up the 3-post-a-week schedule that you guys have come to expect out of us.  It’s been a trial, [...]

XBLA4: This one’s mostly out of spite

Well, it’s the holiday season again.  You’re not really sure how that happened, but unfortunately you are poorer than a hobo with no socks.  There have been a lot of good console games to come out in the past few weeks, but who wants to shell out $60 for a game when you know you’re [...]

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 [...]

Erfworld is all about the little things

There are two very different worlds of popular culture out there, and most everyone seems to subscribe to one or the other.  The first is the regular pop culture, filled with information about which celebrity is banging what, popular music, movie quotes and trivia.  The second is internet pop culture, filled with horrific images from [...]

Girl Genius: Adventure with a 50% chance of blowing itself up

Whoever said ignorance is bliss probably wasn’t standing on the edge of a crater that used to be a small village, nuked into oblivion by a mad scientist’s botched experiment, but you know what?  They should have.  Girl Genius, by Phil and Kaja Foglio of Studio Foglio, is one of the most  immersive webcomics you [...]

Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light

Microsoft certainly did some weird stuff for the summer of arcade this year.  I’ve previously hit on Limbo and how different it was from your normal platforming game.  While Lara Croft (or Guardian of Light, GoL, which I’ll use from now on because I’m very lazy) isn’t quite that strange overall, it definitely is a [...]

Fallout New Vegas: A wasteland, a platinum poker chip and one dedicated courier

A lot of games are scheduled to come out as we take the forward plunge into the holiday season, but for some reason the one about the horrific, irradiated desert surrounding the ruins of the sleaziest city in the United States was the one that caught my interest the most.  Fallout: New Vegas puts a [...]