City of Vancouver Reveals Plan to Do Nothing to Prevent a 2012 Stanley Cup Riot
Posted: March 30, 2012 Filed under: News, Opinion | Tags: alcohol, ban, boston, boston bruins, canucks, cops, drinking, gold medal, gregor robertson, mayor gregor robertson, nhl, olympics, police, prohibition, prosecution, riot, riot act, riots, stanley cup, stanley cup 2011, stanley cup 2012, stanley cup riots, vancouver, vancouver 2012, vancouver canucks, vancouver riots, vpd 2 CommentsFollowing the 2011 Stanley Cup Riots and the arrest and prosecution of several of the thousands of rioters, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has announced a bold new plan to keep the same thing from happening again: no more “big” celebrations. Robertson’s message? Read the rest of this entry »
PS Vita Wins Red Dot Award for Exceptional Design Quality
Posted: March 28, 2012 Filed under: News, Video games | Tags: beautiful hardware, design award, design quality, ps vita, quality, red dot, sony, vita 2 CommentsThe very first line of my PS Vita review described the thing as a beautiful piece of hardware — no matter what you think of its performance or its price or whatever, you can’t deny it looks great. Read the rest of this entry »
Archer Season 3 In Review
Posted: March 26, 2012 Filed under: Opinion, Review | Tags: adam reed, aisha tyler, archer, archer season 3, archer tv series, barry, burt reynolds, colonel jackov, frisky dingo, fx, h. jon benjamin, jackov, jessica walter, jon benjamin, krieger, lana kane, sterling archer, tatiana, tatiana barry 4 Comments
Archer season 3 had it’s share of highs and lows. While generally a great show, I keep on thinking that the concept of the show is a lot funnier than the show itself. It’s made by Adam Reed, and it lacks the off-the-cuffness of his earlier work Frisky Dingo. The humour occasionally becomes Arrested Development-esque, but never fully goes all the way. There are, to be honest, lots of jokes that just fall flat because they just aren’t funny. Read the rest of this entry »
The New Tobacco: Video Games
Posted: March 23, 2012 Filed under: News, Opinion, Video games | Tags: adults only, aggressive behaviour, bad grades, bad parenting, bill, california, cigarettes, conclusive evidence, early childhood, electronics boutique, esrb, evidence, first amendment, frank wolf, freedom of speech, gamasutra, games, grand theft auto, house of representatives, joe baca, manhunt, mature, morons, parenting, psychological, san andreas, smoking, surgeon general, teen, video games, violent video games, virginia Leave a comment
It’s old and somewhat insignificant news, but Frank Wolf (VA) and Joe Baca (CA) of the US House of Representatives want to force all games not rated for Early Childhood to carry a “health warning label”, similar to cigarettes, that would read:
“WARNING: Exposure to violent video games has been linked to aggressive behavior” Read the rest of this entry »
Mass Effect 3 Ending Patch
Posted: March 21, 2012 Filed under: DLC, Opinion, Video games | Tags: art for art's sake, art majors, art object, art ownership, artistic integrity, bioware, casey judson, commander shepard, cultural ownership, cultural product, cultural production, dlc, ea, electronic arts, ending, ending patch, gameplay, highfalutin, mass effect, mass effect 3, mass effect 3 ending, mass effect ending, muzkya, new ending, normandy, ray muzyka, seth green, shepard, ssv normandy, video game fans, videogamers, videogames 4 Comments
This is starting to become old news, but Bioware has been put on the defensive lately by people having played Mass Effect 3 and been dissatisfied with the ending. Having not beaten the game myself (blasphemy!), I don’t know how much I can argue the point, but I do think it’s gotten pretty ridiculous so far. Read the rest of this entry »
The Walking Dead Season 2 in Review
Posted: March 19, 2012 Filed under: Opinion, Review | Tags: amc, andrea, apocalypse, boring, carl, comics, dale, daryl, don't watch the walking dead, fanboys, graphic novels, grimes, hype, lori, mad men, matthew weiner, merle, overhyped, rick, season 2, season finale, sensitivity, stupid, t-dawg, the walking dead, the walking dead sucked, twd, winnebago, zombie apocalypse, zombies 2 Comments
If you haven’t pieced it together yet, I really don’t like The Walking Dead. It’s not that good a TV show that receives a lot of undue attention, hype, and love. The characters have been mostly unlikeable and their development has been mostly static, the action has been pretty stale, the plot has gone nowhere for an entire season. So, without further ado, here is my review of the second season of the Walking Dead (spoilers galore), which I would call The Watching Dead.
Motorstorm RC
Posted: March 16, 2012 Filed under: Review, Video games | Tags: big rigs, buggies, cross-platform, cross-play compatibility, evolution studios, free, free ps vita, games, iq, local multiplayer, monster trucks, motorstorm, motorstorm rc, multiplayer, muscle cars, playstation, playstation vita, ps vita, ps3, racing, racing games, racing trucks, rally cars, scion, scion iq, sony, supercars, superminis, vita 2 Comments
Motorstorm: RC is a racing game that is currently free for download on the PS Vita (though you have to endure starting out in a Scion iQ…) and is one of the best racing games I’ve played in a long time.
The First Contact Scale of Awesomeness
Posted: March 12, 2012 Filed under: Opinion, Review | Tags: andrew lincoln, archer, big bang theory, big trouble in little china, captain janeway, first contact, h. jon benjamin, jack burton, james cromwell, jean-luc picard, jessica walter, john carpenter, kurt russell, moby-dick, patrick stewart, sheldon, star trek, sterling archer, the walking dead, zefram cochrane 3 CommentsThe other day I was thinking about things that are awesome; in particular, the movie Star Trek: First Contact. It is without a doubt the greatest Star Trek film ever made and certainly one of the best films ever to grace the silver screen. It had everything: Klingons, Borg, Patrick Stewart, James Cromwell, Jonathan Frakes, etcetera.
Mass Effect 3
Posted: March 9, 2012 Filed under: Review, Video games | Tags: awesome, bioware, ea, electronic arts, incredible, john, liara, mass effect, mass effect 2, mass effect 3, mordin, normandy, shepherd, storytelling, wrex Leave a comment
From the get-go, Mass Effect 3 had a tall order to fill: to be better than Mass Effect 2. Mass Effect 2 was a brilliant game and an excellent follow-up to Mass Effect… itself, a brilliant game. That isn’t to say each isn’t without its faults: Mass Effect had its fair share of irritating gameplay elements and annoying missions. Read the rest of this entry »
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