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Scott Jennings

My Life With The New Console Cult

So as you can probably see from the puppy dog to your left I finally joined the inevitable and picked up an XBox 360. Thanks to renting DVDs from a local video store, here’s my impressions of the games I’ve tried so far: Ninety-Nine Nights: To be fair,

Why You Won’t See Much Here About The New HOI2 Expansion

From Paradox: For the true hard-core World War II nut to even suggest that there is something other to do with the Hearts of Iron game engine than play World War II is tantamount to heresy. If you are such a person we suggest you stop reading about now. OK!

Go Tell The Spartans, Biy0tch

Iran is displeased with Frank Miller. My favorite recap of the hoofrah is probably this snippet from another Iranian news outlet: In contrast to the reaction in Iran, 300 has earned largely positive reviews in North America, despite multiple decapitations and battlefield carnage. I don’t think they really understand

CGM Shuttered

Computer Games magazine and its new sibling Massive (which I don’t think survived long enough to be renamed) shut down today. Not because “PC gaming is dying” or “print media is dying”, but because theglobe.com is dying, specifically thanks to a summary judgement entered against it by Myspace.

Targeted Micromarketing

Matt Mihaly is apparently paying 40 cents a day to laugh at me.

Unleash Nerd Fury!

As spotted by Krones, attracted by a FoH thread on, quote, “why Vanguard attracts such nerd rage”, endquote, Brad McQuaid leaves the Sigil fallout shelter and sees his shadow, which means six more months of crunch patching. Then there’s the issue of us releasing a bit early because of

Greetings From The City Where Gaming Means Something Entirely Different

While most of my peers are at GDC (I think Damion found the best talk) I’m attending my stepdaughter’s wedding in Las Vegas. Which is an MMO all its own. In any rate expect few updates until next week.