Hi there. It’s been awhile! Sorry about that, I’ve been away – distracted by a rather large Lego project. I’ve also swung back around to playing games on my Nintendo 64. As many of my older CD Drive and DVD Drive based systems are getting finicky in their old age, a solid state cartridge-based system like …
I experienced the Nintendo Entertainment System from afar. I first saw the NES in 1986, at a friend’s sleepover. I was in middle school. Corey had a system with Super Mario Bros, but he also had an Atari ST with a paint program … and a game called Airball. Super Mario seemed fun and all, …
Mr. Satoru Iwata passed away a week ago on July 11th. There have been many write-ups and remembrances of Mr. Iwata online, and I have been struggling to find what I wanted to add. Like many, I feel a profound sense of loss for a man I have never met. Iwata was only 55. He wasn’t just the …
I’m a sucker for open console betas (Destiny, for example), so when I heard about the Splatoon Global Testfire, I figured what the heck, and promptly downloaded it. With only three one-hour windows when the servers would be live, I proceeded to miss the first two, but – as luck would have it – my …
Nintendo just might have a hit on its hands with Splatoon Read More »
My two regular readers may recall my year-old article on Picross Addiction and the four color minimalist joys of Mario’s Picross. You may also recall a promise of a “part two” that was going to cover the first two games in the Picross e series on 3DS. Well, how about it? Beyond my usual real …
Playing along at home during E3 is a time-honored tradition among internet nerds, myself included, and having skimmed the press conferences the message seems to be, “We have some great games coming in 2015 or later! Please look forward to them!” That said…there are a few promising games coming out this year. Here’s what interests …
Picross is an addiction, somewhere between Heroin and Double Stuffed Oreos. It has many street names, e.g., Nonograms, Picture Puzzle, Illust-Logic…yet the puzzles all play the same, more or less. By interpreting numbers on the left and top sides of a gridded square, you fill in pixels to create an image. If the controls and interface …
I’m going to avoid repeating a variation of the 180 joke, and just say that I am glad that Microsoft decided to stay competitive with Sony. The digital future will come soon enough. Now we have ourselves a proper horse race between PS4 and Xbox One, with WiiU going its own way on the side. …
Microsoft ditches DRM, we’ve got ourselves a horse race again! Read More »
And with that, Sony just won E3. The PS4 is $100 cheaper than the Xbox One, requires no DRM for used games or sharing your games with friends, and does NOT include a mandatory camera. Who knows what people will actually buy in November. Microsoft arguably showed off some more impressive AAA exclusives in its …
When I first upgraded to the 3DS, there were not that many compelling games available, so I–like many others, I expect–played around with the extra doodads: Face Raiders, the AR Card stuff, and Find Mii and Puzzle Swap via the Mii Plaza. Then I pretty much forgot about all of them. Unlike the first two …
