The Xbox NXE

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

LittleBigPlanet level design issues

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

Thursday gaming: LBP, EQ2 and W101… again.

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