Mercenaries 2: Broken t...

I was a big fan of the first Mercenaries game. Although there had been a few previous attempts to use and recreate the mission-driven, vehicle oriented, “Sandbox” style gameplay of GTA3, Mercenaries was one of the first to successfully transplant it into a radically different...

Reviewing Video Games: ...

Laurie Anderson once said, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” While that’s a clever analogy, it’s also not quite as deep as it sounds. Music is, after all, a written, linear experience. It has lyrics, and occurs in the same exact sequence...

You Don’t Know Wh...

The speech at Penny Arcade Expo ended up being full to overflowing, and it turns out that Gamers weren’t the only people in attendance. There was some press as well. One might not expect the producer and designer of the original Petz to attract a big crowd at the hardcore gaming...

Dungeons and Dragons em...

The last time there was a major update of D&D Bill Clinton was still president of the United States, Everquest was still the number one online multiplayer game, and a whole lot of other things hadn’t happened yet. They released 3rd edition of the game back in 2000. This was a...

Gina the Concept Car...

Sometimes Science Fiction doesn’t have to be a story. Sometimes it can just be an...