June 2009
2 posts
The Last Guardian, A Cohen Brothers Videogame
That Music sound farmiliar? If you’re reading this blog it should! It’s from the Last Guardian/Trico trailer. Or rather, it’s the other way around. Whatever person cut the trailer decided it would be a great idea to use the music from the 1990 Cohen Brothers movie to promote the new game.
Here’s bettin’ that baby griffon ends up in a Wood Chipper.
This is What You Sound Like When You Explain...
Thank you random Youtube Teenagers, for proving a point.
May 2009
5 posts
WatchAn amazing use of pixel art. Future generations will look at our dancing dildos and vaginas with awe and think “What geniuses they were”.
(Via Anamanaguchi on twitter)
Better than X-Ray Specs!
Hey! Remember the class updates for Team Fortress 2? Remember how they had those spiffy mail order coupons in em? Well, it looks like some people on NeoGAF actually sent those in to Valve, and Valve sent them back the following:
(neogaf, via Mudron on Twitter)
So if you send Valve Coupons, they’ll send you back a cool sheet of paper you can hang on your wall and stuff? Awesome!
So...
Phoenix Wright Meets My Wardrobe.
This shirt can be tied to that mysterious case…Two years ago….
Friends, associates, and random strangers at bars know that if there’s one thing I like babbling about incessently, it’s where to find a good deal. Whether it’s the fourteen dollar two-packs of Evan Williams at the Wine Warehouse on 8th street, the hippies in Bed Stuy that’ll give you a bike for...
April 2009
2 posts
How to Make a Colossus Movie that Doesn't Suck
As a former film student, I’ve got my own views on adaptating movies. I’m not really ever against them. Ever. If the source material is terrifyingly corny to begin with with, then you can only go up from there; That’s why the first Mortal Kombat and Pirates of the Carribean movies were so damn good. If the source material is amazing, then reguardless of how the film turns out,...
March 2009
7 posts
I actually tried to go see Wavves earlier tonight...
Custom Soundtrack no. 3 - Girls Grow Up Faster...
Untitled Lost Demo #2 from Terry Scott...
Custom Soundtrack No. 2: Adam and Evil by Elvis...
Gyakuten Meets Jay-Z
I don’t know why, but I’ve been listening to this mashup of Phoenix Wright and Jay-Z that @gkokoris forwarded to me. Like, over and over. It’s not even very good, I just can’t stop listening to it!
Apparently it started off as a YTMND. Whatever, that’s fine. What I’m saying is, this needs to be a full concept album, in the same vein as Q-unit, The Biggie...
Friends Don't Let Friends Localize Drunk
Only the Japanese could put out a game who’s backdrop is the destruction of Earth from World War III and have it contain an anthropomorphic, underage, shape-changing, magical-catgirl, cookie thief.
And of course, only Americans could muck it up worse.
So do better next time, ‘Kay? (Thanks, @gkokoris)
February 2009
5 posts
All The Underdogs Are Dead.
Reliance is a funny thing on the Internet. When some resource exists for a long enough span of time, you begin to develop attachments to it. After a while you take it for granted and it’s very existence becomes chaff and noise. Urbandictionary, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia; if any of these sites went down, you wouldn’t be actively aware of them until they were gone, and when they...
Game Jams: BLUE JAM, by Chris Morris
Two things...
WatchI’ve been playing DOS games with Boxer, the excellent and easy OSX frontend for Dosbox. It’s wonderful.
Street Fighter II for MS-DOS, on the other hand? Not so much. The music is hillariously terrible, so much so that I had to share it with the rest of the world. Here’s the title screen. Give it a couple of seconds, the audio lags.
January 2009
6 posts
I Hate Dumb Science.
Full disclosure: I’m not a scientist. I dreamed about it as a kid, about being a combination bodybuilder/research scientist, but that never really came to light. So, I’ll admit that I’m not expertly acredited on the following subject.
That said, I know dumb fucking science when I see it.
The New Scientist is reporting that a Cambridge Neruoscientist and his team attempted to...
Uncle Monsterface, You Rocked My Face.
“Who here loves videogames?” said the man on stage. A few hands shoot up, mine included.
“You sir. Step forward”. He’s standing on stage. Beside him is a projector hooked up to a Super Nintendo and a puppet theatre with a smiling sock-puppet. The band is Called Uncle Monsterface, and the space that we’re in is called Surrealestate, a loftspace full of...
Where Gamers Called Home.
Nerds love to think of things in eras. It helps to put things in your life in order, put things in perspective and mark the end of an era and the begining of a new one. And it’s subjective, ya know? What’s insignifigant and trivial to the majority of people can mean a great deal to many more.
With that in mind I will say this: When I saw the list of employees cut at 1UP, the...
The Secret Life of Asian Robocop
You’ll find the most bizarre shit when searching random stuff in YouTube— Celeberties Swearing, Old Cartoons, Chinese Puppet Movies. Every once in a while though, you’ll turn over a rock and see a whole ecosystem of stuff you didn’t know exist.
For example: Did you know Robocop was god damned huge in Asia? Did you know that, like Bill Murray in Lost in Translation, he...
December 2008
1 post
Where Chiptunes Are Failing.
People that know me know that aside from being a gamer, I’m also a slight DIY music nerd. I go to shows. A lot. I have a very small ringing in my ears from going to see Lightning Bolt and Japanther, and I very frequently find myself falling into random shows in unusual places (like a subway train or the middle of a bridge). I’ve seen two separate bands do crowd-suspended drum solos...
November 2008
1 post
Professor Layton's Got The Hookup.
The Time: 2:45 AM, Tuesday.
The Place: L-Train station, 1st Ave.
There is nothing quite as soul crushing as waiting for a train to bring you home. It’s a wait for another wait, and it feels like you’re night’s gone from cruising at 100 miles an hour to a screeching, halting, 25 minute red light. It’s also the reason I don’t go out to have fun in Manhattan that...
October 2008
14 posts
Deja Vu.
When I was in Kindergarten I lived just outside of DC for three years in a town called McLean Virginia. You may know it better as Vault 101.
We had an odd school system. At Churchill Road Elementry every Monday was a half day; so almost every other week my Mom would take me down to Washington DC to The National Mall to visit the Smithsonian. I’d always beg her to see the Air and Space...
Recent Work.
I’ve been slightly incommunicado as of late. Pete’s been getting hitched, the barrage of titles have been hitting us, so the squad has been in sort of a mini-coma as is our perpetual wont. That, and I’ve been working.
I did a couple of videos recently for io9. The First Two are about Zombiecon; New York’s annual Zombie Flash mob.
io9 Presents Zombiecon, 2008! from...
Post-Bike Kill: The Healing Begins.
The sixth year of Bike Kill has come and gone and brother there were a shitload of hangovers this morning in Brooklyn.
(Photo John Prolly)
Bike Kill is one of the few things I look to every year. It’s raw, dirty, dangerous as all hell and it doesn’t cost you a nickel. For those of you who don’t know about Bike Kill is, it’s hosted by the goons over from the Black...
HYPSTRZ - 96 Tears (Cover, 1979)
What I’m...
“How dare you derail my listserv with constant talk of snake meat. I am furious...”
– Jenn
Go to Hell.
Everyone that plays games has at least one small obscure game that they won’t shut up about. For some it’s games like Bioshock or Katamari, for others still it’s Rez, Earthbound, but considering that my entire gaming career has focused on these kind of titles, the games that I work up that kind of enthusiasim for are very special indeed. Today I’m going to talk about...
I'm Not a Patient Man...
But I did beat this.
I need Snake Meat.
The end of times are coming, of that we can be certain. The banks are shit, food is running thin, the world is dying; it’s all signs of the apocolypse. So where does that leave me?
Like the rest of you, I gotta survive. And who knows how to survive better than anyone else?
That’s right. Naked Snake.
So here’s the deal. Out of boredom or apathy I’ve decided to enter...
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Kisses,
Chris
Who Says There are No Good Lovecraft Games?
A few months back, my friend Jenn mentioned in passing that there was a Japan-only, virtualboy videogame based on a shitty, movie adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Insmouth”. I immediately called bullshit on her, since things that awesome just don’t exist, ever.
Then I googled it.
Turns out she was totally not making it up. It’s called “Insmouse...
LittleBookmobilePlanet.
Think back to when you were three.
You’re in your underoos. It’s saturday morning, you got a juicebox in your grubby little mitts and you’re watching PBS for kids. Sesame Street is on, and you haven’t yet reached that golden moment when your parrents accidentally leave G.I. Joe or Power Rangers on and you can’t go back. So you’re stuck with educational...
September 2008
12 posts
How Adventure Games Saved Me from ADHD.
People that know me well know that I’ve have some issues. I have trouble sitting in one place, being confined in an area puts me on edge and even now I struggle against impulses not to interrupt people in conversations. I have ADHD and it took me many long, hard years of seeing “has potential” stamped across my report cards to figure out what’s really implicit in that....
(I kinda wish that it was) Nerd Love.
Something’s been bugging me since PAX.
PAX was quaint last year. When I went it was, for the most part, nerds and their friends slugging it out on the Nintendo DS, dueling each other Magic, facing off in counterstrike and doing what nerds generally do. It was an unabashed nerdgasam, fueled by shitty mall pizza, energy drinks and ritalin. It was a known quantity; something to be...
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A critical, point-by-point analysis of Soulja...
As some of you on the internet saw, tallented musician and ringtone factory Soulja Boy recently reviewed Johnathan Blow’s Braid for the Xbox 360. Below is the riviting review, in full.
Mr. Blow has yet to respond. Doubtless he’s devistated by this criticsm, so I will respond on his behalf. Let’s break down Mr. Boy’s review, point by point:
1. They got this game,...
This is what Bushwick sounds like when you open...
Play all the videos at the same time and you should get the desired result.
