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I have a couple topics to write about boiling around in my head, but this one seems to be the most timely considering the rumor going around of a Shadow of the Colossus/Ico HD re-release next year.  Shadow of the Colossus (and not Beatles Rock Band, inserting snarky jab at the New York Times here) is frequently…

Ok, there ARE A-ranked and B-ranked people in SSF4.  This just isn’t particularly transparent because you are ranked both on your general play, and your character play, and the two values are not called something entirely intuitive. “Player Points” does make sense.  “Battle Points” are per character, so why not call them “Character Points”?  Is this…

Since I wrote about Phoenix Wright once, I just want to mention that this article on how it relates to the real Japanese court system is fascinating.  Phoenix Wright’s Objection at the Escapist.  Here I thought it was describing some kind of imaginary future-court of Japan and didn’t really resemble the real system… Still playing…

You’ll really really like it if you’re in to this sort of thing. (Note: a fair percent of game reviews in general feel like this to me.)

…why didn’t you? By “you,” of course, I mean… the mainstream blogosphere. I don’t mean the fans of the series, who are writing about them furiously on wikis and posting countless videos to YouTube, enough that I can easily browse through the options I am missing by playing female Shepard. But generally it seems like…

Our local game development oriented one-day event is happening on May 22, in Troy Michigan! More information to be found at: http://www.iadtdetroit.com/interfaces_2009.asp

Forgive me the fact that I’ve been browsing through some Tim Rogers writing lately, and along with the release of the 20th Anniversary Street Fighter art book recently, this makes me want to wax long and poetic about Street Fighter. Every so often in life one has a brush with something that changes us forever. I’ve already…

This post is a response to the Chris Hecker talk given Day One of the main GDC conference this year. I’ll write a synopsis of this talk, “Achievements Considered Harmful?”, in my own words, but I’m not the first person to do so. See also Game Set Watch’s writeup and this writeup from David Sirlin (scroll…

There is video!  Watch it here. No one ever said, I love your game, but I win too much…  🙂

Notes exist but are not compiled.  Real post later!