PS3 Motion Controller

One of my favorite viewing experiences from E3 this year is the video about the PS3 motion controller. It’s so cool that, for the first time, I can see a potential console purchase in my future. This blog is almost exclusively a PC-centric domain, but if games evolve in the direction Sony is demonstrating, that [...]

What I’ve been playing: The Hunter

Yep, still playing The Hunter pretty regularly. As a person who never, ever would have picked up a hunting game on my own, without the glowing recommendations of the Gamers With Jobs podcast crew, I’m pretty surprised the game has hooked me this hard.
It’s a subtle, elegant game, and if you haven’t tried it, you [...]

The Hunter: Your first hunts

UF Timmy asked some questions in the comments of my last post, and I’ve seen similar questions on the Gamers With Jobs forums. Timmy asked
How do you know when it’s time to visually start looking for them and when to start crouching?
Very short answer: I almost always walk, until it’s time to position myself for [...]

The Hunter: Surprise of the week

I don’t dress the part any more, but my hippie credentials are pretty good. I’m also a vegetarian (although I really don’t care what you eat; I’m vegetarian, not a preacher), and I’ve never gone hunting. If you had asked me two weeks ago if I’d ever be interested in playing a hunting game, the [...]

Runes of Magic progress

Runes of Magic is the first free-to-play MMO that I find myself returning to on a regular basis. I’ve moved servers, choosing what I think will be a permanent home for a while.
Over the last 10 days or so, I leveled a character up on the Govinda server, getting a Scout/Rogue combo up to 13/13, [...]

Runes of Magic

In addition to playing Wizard 101, I’ve also been playing Runes of Magic. Saylah’s been talking about it a lot over at Mystic Worlds, and I think I like it better than Perfect World, which I was playing a couple weeks ago.
It’s difficult to know why some MMO’s click more than others. “The graphics” might [...]

Wizard 101

How’s everyone been? I’ve been absent from the blogging world lately, both reading and writing, mostly due to the usual suspects: work, sick kid, more work, etc.
I’ve had time to play games, though, especially since my daughter had days off school and was house-bound all weekend. Normally, she’d be logging in to run around in [...]

GRID: Giving me my PC driving fix

I’ve spent the last couple nights playing Codemaster’s GRID, available for free on Gametap (if you’re a Gametap subscriber).
I’ve been a racing fan all my life. I didn’t do a lot with my dad growing up; he wasn’t the kind of dad who hung out with his kids very much. One thing he did do, [...]

Two weeks to Valentine’s Day

I’m one hundred percent sure my wife wouldn’t know what the hell to make of these gamer Valentine’s Day cards, but I think they’re awesome. Link goes to Geekadelphia, who’s linking out to Hawty McBlogger’s site.

Quake Live and gaming nostalgia

I’ll try to avoid “uphill, both ways, barefoot, over a 14.4 modem” reminiscing.
My earliest 3D online gaming experiences were playing Quake and its variants. I started working for a dot com startup company in 1996, making hardware and software that connected your guitar to your computer. I was the tech support guy, and it was [...]

Quake Live beta

Quake 3 in a browser? Yes please!
I just got my beta invite today, and I played the first “training” match. It’s pretty sweet! I’m sure I can’t talk about anything more than “There is a beta, I’m in the beta”, so I’ll hold off on impressions until beta testers are released from NDA’s, but I’m [...]

Where do videogames go when they die?

If you’ve been involved with technology in some way over the past 20 years, you’ve probably saved files on now-extinct or endangered storage media. A Google search for dead media will find plenty of thoughtful speculation about the future of storage information. Prompted by Muckbeast’s pointer to the removal of the Threshold MUD entry on [...]