Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Non-MMO games.
Seems weird to be writing about the Xbox New Xbox Experience because, after all, I don’t have an Xbox… but my son does 🙂 And when he returned home from college last night for Thanksgiving, he came toting his 360. And so I got my first look at the NXE. First off — he complained … Read more
I don’t have any pictures, but maybe I’ll get some later. My concept for my latest LittleBigPlanet level was simple — a large mazework of iron girders, which you’d run through at high speed for awhile and then have to solve cute puzzles to proceed. The problem comes with the complexity meter. This is a … Read more
I was going to title this, “Friends don’t let friends play Wizard 101” because it’s so addictive, but I couldn’t. I really, really enjoyed playing my current crush with friends this weekend. I have this dream… that someday, I will fight through the Master’s Tower in Ravenwood and at the end of the battles, when … Read more
Wizard 101, why can’t I quit you? I spent most of the night last night working on my LittleBigPlanet level. Well, almost. I spent most of last night feeling like an idiot. A frustrated idiot. Since LittleBigPlanet is based around a physics engine, everything you make there has to actually work to some degree. I … Read more
I was reading Scott Jenning’s concise explanation of the uproar over Linden Labs’ changes to the open space sims in their Second Life virtual world simulation, and as I read it, I wondered why I never really ‘got’ Second Life. I mean, it has everything I like, right? It’s almost ENTIRELY about community and creating … Read more