Archive for the 'video games' Category
Signs Winter Break Is Way Too Damned Long
Posted on January 2, 2010 by andrew- Filed Under music, video games | Leave a Comment
1) I just made the top 500 (#408) scores in one of the Batman: Arkham Asylum combat challenges. That’s the top 500 out of all XBox 360 players of the game, everywhere. It’s a fun game, but spending enough time playing it over the past three weeks to get better at it then all but [...]
I Never Miss Small Details
Posted on October 27, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under video games | Leave a Comment
Tecmo Bowl has been around for twenty years and I never noticed until literally just now that the game features only nine players on each side. Crazy.
…In related news, is Tecmo Super Bowl ever going to come out for Wii Virtual Console? I would really like to be able to modify my playbook and whatnot. [...]
Jimi Hendrix Lives
Posted on November 23, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Guitar Hero, Jimi Hendrix, music, video games | 1 Comment
So I’m sitting here playing some Guitar Hero World Tour
and all of the sudden an animated Jimi Hendrix pops up on stage to play with me. Did no one think that reanimating dead rock stars, as opposed to simply using their music and showing the game’s other characters playing it, might be a little creepy? [...]
Apple May Need To Go Back To Work On This One
Posted on September 13, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under iTunes, music, video games | Leave a Comment
I was playing around with Apple’s newly unveiled “Genius” recommendations and pulled up the list for “Anarchy in the U.K.”
The results are a near-perfect track listing for Guitar Hero III, excluding only the songs from the game I already own.
There may be a few bugs in the algorithm.
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“Exactly, Kitty. Like Sea Monkeys.”
Posted on May 20, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bioshock, Superman Returns, libertarians, movies, science, video games | Leave a Comment
Andrew Sullivan posts a link to the story of a group “trying to create quasi-sovereign, libertarian ocean communities on strange looking platforms”. My first thought was, “Holy crap- Andrew Ryan!”1 But then I saw that the Wired writer had already name-checked Bioshock in the original piece. So, let’s see, can I still out-nerd Wired? Ooh, [...]
Things I Don’t Care About
Posted on April 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Grand Theft Auto IV, Mario Kart, Things I Don't Care About, video games | Leave a Comment
(Part ten in an ongoing series)
Grand Theft Auto IV.
The series has never appealed to me. Of course, in the past the games have always been designed exclusively for the current iteration of Playstation, and I’ve never owned a Playstation, so that’s a contributing factor. But I have played one or two of them on occasion [...]
