I know I’ve recently talked about Nintendo’s Wii et al. but it recently hit me that Nintendo’s coming out pretty strong for software this spring:
March: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
April: Mario Kart Wii
May: Wii Fit + WiiWare
The WiiWare stuff announced at the Nintendo media summit earlier this week looks like it could be awesome.
I had dismissed [...]

we like having a lot of beverages

Tonight I tried Second Life and was shocked by how passé the graphics are. I haven’t played a game that ugly since before GL-Quake. It had a lot of performance issues, too. I’ve played games that are miles ahead in terms of graphics but that run infinitely smoother. It’s pretty pathetic.
Also, I found it pretty [...]

Lately, I’ve been trying to play through F.E.A.R. in my free time. I started it forever ago and got about a fifth of the way through it before I stopped. It was on my list of games to play through the other month. Playing it now, I remember why I stopped playing: I find it [...]

“Looks like an apple. Tastes like a grape.” Indeed, it does.

It kind of makes Laura and I apprehensive, though. They claim is doesn’t require any genetic manipulation but a happy bath in grape-flavoured water seems too… easy.

No More Heroes is a highly stylized action game. The combat is slick and satisfying and the plot is mildly entertaining.
The overall plot is that you’re working your way up this ladder of top assassin’s by killing all the guys ranked higher than yourself. Each of those ranked people are like boss battles and in-between [...]

written by Robert. J. Sawyer
I’m assuming you’ve read the book or at least the back cover, and won’t spoil anything more than that.
Early on, when things go wrong and the husband gets his rollback while his wife doesn’t, I was upset. I was so upset, in feeling the frustration of the main character, that I [...]

I found this guy’s take on GlaDOS interesting:

I can see where he’s coming from.

Laura and I went for a bike ride yesterday.

It’s pretty nice having Knox Mountain right nearby.

Cacti!

Going home is the fun part:

visually you’re stimulating to my eyes

Well we must like the game because the guys came over tonight and we played SSBB straight until 4am.