video games
Happy Birthday Pac-Man
Pac-Man, the iconic yellow circle that runs through mazes gobbling up white pills, saying nothing more than “waka waka,” while being pursued by ghosts turns 30 today.
The game spawned sequels, a cartoon show and even a breakfast cereal!
As one of the the most recognizable video game brands, Pac-Man in a way came to be [...]
Humble Indie Bundle breaks $1 million
Last week I wrote about the “Humble Indie Bundle,” where several independent video games were bundled together and offered up to customers for whatever price they felt like paying.
Well, for the week the sale lasted, the publishers raised $1,082,082.
Buyers were asked to allocate an amount of their purchase price to charity, which came out [...]
Game guide article in The Escapist
I’ve got a new piece in The Escapist today on game guide/walkthrough/FAQ writers.
Bad MotherFAQers
Enjoy.
Gas Station Hero
My latest piece for The Escapist is now online, a profile of the Ottawa-based video game and training company, Distil Interactive.
Enjoy!
Best web ad ever!
I will say nothing more and simply supply the link:
YouTube – experiencewii’s Channel.
The lack of decent political games
I don’t get it. There are two election campaigns going on right now (Canada and U.S.) which should be making for oodles of amusing web-based games satirizing politics but quite frankly, I’m finding the selection pretty bland.
Lets take Death By 1000 Cold Cuts for example. In the response to Tory Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s ill-timed [...]
Weekend Time Waster: Nanobots
I’m a huge fan of the Lucas Games and Sierra OnLine style point-and-click adventures have frankly found video games in general lacking since the genre’s apparent demise sometime in the late ’90s.
Fortunately, it seems there are always independent developers who are willing to take nostalgic desire all the way to revive lost art forms.
So, for [...]
A journalist is me
I figured at some point, the thrill of being published would go away.
Fortunately, it seems that is not the case, as I was certainly excited to see my first piece for The Escapist go live this morning. Stumbling into the Kingdom of Loathing is the story of how an online browser-based RPG based around [...]
The Orange Box: How to kill a long weekend…
Apparently it’s Sunday and I’m not sure where the rest of my weekend went. I think it has something to do with having purchased The Orange Box on Friday.
I’m pretty late to the part on this one (It came out mid-2007) but it’s mine now and it’s taken over.
See, The Orange Box [...]
Video games taught me to read
I was about four years old when my parents brought home my family’s first computer. A Tandy 2000 from Radio Shack. A complete joke by today’s standards but state-of-the-art for the mid-80’s.
It was supposed to be a business machine for my father but as with many who get their first computer, my parents developed a [...]
