February 24, 2011 Stacking – XBLA Review
Stacking is an adorable little game that puts you in control of Charlie Blackmore, the world’s smallest Russian stacking (matryoshka) doll, in a quest to save your family. They have been kidnapped and forced into child labor under the rule of an evil Baron. With your stacking abilities, you stack into dozens of other characters around the world, using their special abilities and talents to overthrow the Baron and free not only your family, but all others suffering under his treachery.
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February 5, 2011 Quick Look & Achievement Guide – Doritos Harm’s Way
Doritos has yet another Xbox Live Arcade title available, called “Harm’s Way,” and thus another opportunity to quickly inflate your gamerscore. This is quite possibly the easiest of all three Doritos games when it comes to nabbing achievements quickly. Last year’s Dash of Destruction made scoring 200 simple. Then, a few months back, Crash Course came out and offered players an actual challenge and a surprisingly addictive little title where you actually had to put in some work for your 200 points. Now with Harm’s Way, we’re back to extreme simplicity. The game is fun, at least for a short while, and will allow you to accumulate all 200 of its offered achievement points in 15 minutes or less. And like all Doritos games, it is free.
Seriously. 15 minutes or less.
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January 27, 2011 Titanic in 2.5 Minutes – As Told By Leonardo DiCaprio Characters
This video was on the internet nearly two years ago. Then it vanished. Now it makes its triumphant return.
It’s Titanic – edited to 2.5 minutes (an appropriate length for the film), and told by Howard Hughes, William Costigan Jr., Amsterdam Vallon and Arnie Grape. Thank you, Leonardo DiCaprio, for all your fitting quotations.
If nothing else, at least be happy that all instances of “My Heart Will Go On” have been removed. And the old lady’s weird grunt sound was retained, of course. Click below to view.
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January 17, 2011 Adrian Paul’s “Tracker” – Watch The Episodes
I’ve never actually met another living human being that had ever seen or heard of the show Tracker. It was a low-budget sci-fi show starring Adrian Paul, Amy Price-Francis, Geraint Wyn Davies and Leanne Wilson (my reason for watching). Around here, it was on back in 2001-2002 at 11PM immediately following MadTV. Adrian Paul is an alien who comes to Earth to hunt down 218 escaped alien convicts from his home planet. That’s basically the whole premise. The show was totally awesome in a campy, late-night low-budget sci-fi sort of way. Back then, I recorded every episode of the series onto VHS tapes. This was a good idea, since the series has never been released to DVD and has no apparent hope for what would be such a great idea.
As such, nobody has really been able to see it for the past 9 years since it went off the air. The closest we can come is the movie “Alien Tracker,” a terrible direct-to-DVD release which is essentially the pilot and two other episodes of the show edited together to make a fairly incoherent “movie.” But do not distress – I just discovered someone’s YouTube channel where they have every single episode of the original Tracker series posted for you to watch online. This was a great day for me. I thought I’d share.
The link will take you straight to the first part of the pilot episode: http://www.youtube.com/gaiaquest#p/search/10/0WcCI1LOCYI
Go. Enjoy.
January 12, 2011 Kinect Sports Review
The last of my promised gaggle of Kinect launch title reviews is Rare’s take on the multi-sport sim with their lovely game Kinect Sports. It utilizes the Kinect sensor to put players into six different sports for an excellent party game that offers endless fun and good responses. It does for the Kinect what Wii Sports did for the Wii, and is what we’ve all wished Wii Sports could have been – a full body, wire-free sports funfest.
As everyone who knows anything about me is aware, I don’t care much for real-life sports at all. I watch none, I play none. And I certainly know nothing about any of the sports involved in Kinect Sports. I point that out to note my review of this game is not swayed by some lifelong love of sports. The game delivers a good enough experience to keep me playing because it is a well-made game, and a must-have for anyone hoping to use their Kinect for multiplayer purposes. And I used the word “sports” way too many times in this paragraph. Read on. Continue reading this article ›
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January 10, 2011 Laser Beasts: A Nonexistent Comic
I made this sometime last year while working at the laser show production company and just found it on an old abandoned hard drive. It was all done in Photoshop by me, aside from the drawing of the lady and the goblin body. Those were pulled from god knows where on the internet and altered to fit the comic.
Click to make it bigger, obviously.
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January 6, 2011 Maria Kefalas’ “Generation R”
I’ve always been told I was part of Generation Y, or the Millennial Generation. Apparently now my generation is being re-dubbed Generation R – The Recession generation.
En route to work this morning, I heard a short interview with NPR’s Jeremy Hobson and St. Joseph’s University Sociology Professor Maria Kefalas. She has been researching those born between 1980-1990, the generation that has recently found itself entering the workforce. Her statements are about a generation of people trying to enter the workforce during a recession and the struggles they face financially- both due to the difficulty of finding good work and the challenge of paying for a college education. Being born in 1985, I find myself smack in the middle of this group and completely understand where she’s coming from. Continue reading this article ›
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January 6, 2011 Kinect – Kinectimals Review
It’s probably just my extreme adoration of animals talking, but I find this game endearing. They say it won’t cater to hardcore gamers at all. Well, I think more about my 360 than I do about food, so I class myself as pretty hardcore. And I think it’s a treat.
Sure, it’s made for five year olds. Certainly, there’s not much game to it, no storyline whatsoever, and what the game does offer is painfully easy and geared towards small children. Everyone is aware of these things. Every review of the game to date has made this abundantly apparent. And it’s certainly not untrue. The game is completely simple, barebones, and juvenile. You can’t lose, as there is no battle to be fought. It’s just a cute game, and something I find myself having fun with. It won’t last forever – I’m sure once I explore all the areas, finish all the games and accomplish all the tasks, it’ll be up for sale on Half.com. But until then… Continue reading this article ›
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January 6, 2011 Kinect – Dance Central Review
My wife has a degree in dance. She teaches dance to preschoolers through high school students. She’s been doing ballet since she was 5. Add all that up and my purchase of Dance Central is justified.
I’m terrible at this game. After perfecting the finger disco during middle school, my dancing aptitude was tapped out. I took some pas de deux (definition found here) classes with my wife during college due to a lack of ample male presence in their classes, much to my own dismay. I did this leotard-free.
Miss Aubrey, my personal favorite dance leader.
None of that has any bearing on the quality of this game, however. Dance Central has quickly rendered Dance Dance Revolution pads useless. In my experience, this game is on par with Your Shape as being the most responsive, accurate use of the Kinect sensor of all the launch titles.
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