This evening I played a little over an hour of the Reach beta with my roommate and friend. What's different? Not much, but I'll touch on what I noticed and then add color with a blast from my filthy opinius. Fewer Cocks. For now, that is. ...

In 1999, a handful of demos included on a disc within Myth: The Total Codex included a video for another new direction Bungie Studios was taking. The idea behind it was to improvise using a small force of humans to survive on an open, alien...

Maganzo is so awesome that even the most deep-voiced, sexually deviant postmodernist English professor couldn't deconstruct it with a two-ton "wrecking ball."

Last night I tried Splinter Cell: Conviction, playing a bit of co-op and watching my compadre blaze through single player. I was not impressed. 1. The Story Everyone has heard it's a Bourne ripoff, but obviously the creators knew it, and ...

Girls don't talk to you. They don't even make eye contact with you. The High School Football Team has a habit of shoving your head in the urinals because it's less work than the full fledged toilet, and urinal cakes leave enough evidence on...

From direct observation, cliched as it is: 1. Have pretty girlfriend who wants to feel loved 2. Be gaming addict 3. Be unwilling to acknowledge problem 4. Play WoW or other PC games secretly in your room until 2 a.m., get up at 6 a.m. t...

Imagine getting shot by the guy talking horrendous trash. Or being able to call in artillery on him. ABC News Ran this story about how Afghan soldiers and Taliban talk shit about each other using old-school two-way radios. An excerpt: ...

Does anybody else revel in crawling around on the ground, unseen? I'm crawling around the bottom of the corporate ladder as I write this. But really, what I'm talking about is going unnoticed in natural settings. I love this stuff in game...

Jesse Schell's vision of the future - a future where games consume everything and are an unavoidable, universal cheap trick to control behavior, and this somehow improves people, is rubbish. Click to here to see the video, referenced in Po...

Check out Ecko's sale for Halo stuff like this. CHEAP! I just snagged the track jacket for a friend's birthday, $17 including shipping. I rather like that white tee, too...

This post wouldn't appear public, so after contacting tech support I had to retry. No, I'm not a spammer.

Check out this story from Uganda. "According to officials trying to tackle it, the crime is directly linked to rising levels of development and prosperity - and an increasing belief that witchcraft can help people get rich quickly." Wow...

Yeah, this has probably been done before. Seems that just as the military prefers officers with big chins, Square prefers protagonists with small chins and some largely consistent other features. Like the nose. And the cheeks. And maybe...

Thanks to several positive mentions on Destructoid's review of 2009's best, I rented 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand for eight dollar and fifty-two cent yesterday. Yes, overpriced at Hollywood video without their Netflix-rival program, but worth...

The general weakness of internet communications is that they can be made without consequence. The internet is the Ring of Gyges. Even if your name is known, nothing else usually is, and you're certainly physically far enough to be spared fr...

Yes, if you've been on Halo 3, you may have played me. I have numerous personas, my favorite being the "Kid with Allergies who needs his mom to buy him sudafed, but who apologizes for having a 56k connection." I love to make jerks on Hal...