Kickstart my heart (whoa, yeah)

I don’t know how many of you have been keeping up with comic and video game news, but in the past couple of months there have been some exciting things going on at Kickstarter.  For those of you not aware of such things, Kickstarter is a neat way to allow creative content developers to connect [...]

Hitman: Let’s make an action movie about a stealthy assassin

We all know that video games don’t translate to movies as well as comic books and other story forms. If you’ve had the misfortune of seeing a Mortal Kombat or Resident Evil movie you are painfully aware. Still, I’m a glutton for punishment so here we go. Hitman was a beautiful game my roommate got [...]

Minecraft: It’s here, but is it truly finished?

Friday is a big day. It marks the 93rd anniversary of the end of the Great War, it is the release of a horror film I really don’t care about, and  it’s the official release date for Minecraft. But Enosh, haven’t you been posting about Minecraft for like a year now? Ah, yes but if [...]

Minecraft: The best incomplete 8-bit game ever

As I’ve mentioned before, I grew up a naive PC gamer. I was partial to the LucasArts games, Day o f the Tentacle, X-wing, and the like. There’s  nothing like a machine with more input buttons than letters in the alphabet. Not to mention the PC was high-definition with full anti-aliasing before it was cool. [...]

Dr. Oddlot or: How I learned to swallow the pill and play video games

So in my real job I meet a wide variety of people and talk to them about stuff. One recent conversation with a psychiatrist or psychologist, or whichever one can give you drugs, told me that videogames are a complete and utter waste of time. In case you haven’t gathered this from visiting this site [...]

A generation of super intelligent pixel babies

I have a crippling, debilitating disease that has devoured countless thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours in the past year.  Just about every time I seem to get ahead financially, the symptoms start acting up again, and it’s time for me to make an appointment with a specialist, whose main job is simply to [...]

The blog has been stolen by ninjas

Video games have come a long way in terms of story over the past three decades.  Back in the days when 8 bit was the new 4 bit and you had to use your imagination to fill in the gaps between those pixels, the only plot you really needed was “you’re a good guy.  Everyone [...]

The God of Pixels

Ever since the early days of video games there have been a large share of people who are convinced that they’re evil incarnate.  Well, I guess it actually started around the same time that Mortal Kombat hit the shelves back in the early 1990s, when a bunch of angry parents watched a digital ninja man [...]

MadWorld is a dud world

A Sega game on a Nintendo system would have been weird back when this game would have been good. Now it’s just a run of the mill violent game with a bad soundtrack that makes the main character do some weird butt dance when he’s not throwing people into machines and spraying their blood all over the screen.

Bioshock 2: You’re not my real dad!

Bioshock 2 is one of those games that you were either apprehensive about or excited to see, depending on how much faith you have in the video game industry. While the game play and setting is what we remember from Bioshock, the story falls short in Rapture’s second installment.