Category Archives: games

PAX 2008 — Still Alive

Jonathan Coulton w/ Felicia Day! (Squee!)

Lots of version of this floating around the tubes… but I think this has the best audio.

Kings Quest VI (Playthrough)

Enjoy!

tf2 — statistical heaven

At a minimum, you need to check out the “Death Heat Maps” at the bottom of this page.  The rest of the data is pretty interesting too, and really shows how balanced all the characters are.  I think based on the stats, the Engineer is slightly behind the rest, and I’m suprised the Demoman and [...]

Portal (initial)

The cake is a lie…
What a fantastic game!  Original and great fun (I chose to beat it over playing TF2!)  Little too short, but there looks to be some extras (as well as downloadable) maps…  I can’t wait to replay it, actually.
And Jonathan Coulton is my hero! (And I’m still alive…)

team fortress 2 (initial)

Oh… My… God.
Absolutely and utterly fantastic.
(more on this later, but in all likelihood, much later as game play comes first!)

games|art

The debate on whether video games could be art has been held at a low simmer for quite some time. Roger Ebert threw down the gauntlet on which many picked up, including recently Clive Barker, who stirred the pot again. In what I deem is a “final thought” on this issue, Ragnar Tournquist [...]

heros of gaming

Its definitely nice to see Ragnar’s characters getting a little love.  Zoe and April come in 4th on a list of top 25 Video Game Heros.  I don’t think it is without merit either.  The Longest Journey and Dreamfall have some of the deepest and satisfying protagonists in gaming.  I still need to try Indigo [...]