I downloaded The Fall on a whim. Never heard of it before, but it was in the HD section of my movie download source and it has a pretty good rating on IMDb so I figured I’d give it a shot. Usually when I do this I watch about 5 minutes of the movie [...]
Recently I’ve been caring less about everything on my computer being customized and tweaked to my exact needs. I think that attitude was my main problem with all things Apple. Their products generally come out of the box the way they are and stay that way forever. iTunes for example, will always have an interface [...]
I’m working a lot lately so I haven’t been bored enough to look for reasons to update my blog. What I have been doing is stuff on my
giantbomb.com profile. Giant Bomb is a new website about videogames, it’s sort of like Wikipedia+blog. Apparently it uses the same backend as comicvine.com, which is a comic [...]
My boner for this game is losing stiffness. It’s still a great game, I’m still playing a ton, but I’m starting to notice the faults more prominently. Some technical stuff: framerate, pop-in, the usual suspects. Compared to the problems the PS2 games had, GTA4 is leaps and bounds better but.. I kind of want to [...]
So now that
we’ve established the PC is the best gaming platform available, we’ve got to decide what operating system to put on it. Anything non-Windows is obviously out of the question for gaming, so it’s between XP and Vista. I’ve had extensive experience with both (and spent a good amount of time
tweaking them [...]
Having played PC games far longer than I’ve played console games, it’s easy for me to romanticize PC gaming as some holy tradition that must be protected. The reality is, a good game will get my attention regardless of what platform it was made for. But there are a lot of reasons why I prefer [...]
I tried playing this game when it came out for the PS2, but by that time I had completely moved on to the “next-gen” and found most PS2 games to be generally unplayable. The 360 port is better, I’ve noticed some slight framerate issues and the loading screens seem far more frequent than they should [...]
GFW Radio Interviews - I listen to the GFW podcast regularly anyway, but
these interviews from GDC have more content and less inside jokes. I’ve only listened to the first two so far; the one with Warren Spector and Paul Wedgewood is fun and interesting, the one with Chris Taylor and Josh Mosqueira is [...]
I finished listening to the audiobook version of Born Standing Up (which is the version I recommend since Steve Martin narrates the book himself and does a great job), and then I listened to it a second time because I sort of became addicted to listening to him talk. Then I listened to the [...]