Monthly Archives: August 2008

This weekend, I attended the Penny Arcade Expo for the second time (and the first as a Hothead employee). I didn’t get booth duty this year, which was fortunate, because I’m not sure I can stand being around all the … Continue reading →

I played through the first episode of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People last week, and was pleasantly surprised by it. Granted, my motivation to play was more to do with wanting to see what my former colleague Mark … Continue reading →

This month’s Blogs of the Round Table topic asks the ever-so-fascinating question of whether video games teach socially responsible lessons. Considering that I spent a little too much time dabbling in moral philosophy courses in university, and thus know that … Continue reading →

The nice thing about having kept up this blog for over three years is that when I’m feeling anxious and out of sorts about something or other, I can pull up the archives and discover that I was complaining about … Continue reading →

The Last Express is a remarkable classic masterpiece of a game. The rotoscoped art direction, iconic and yet realistic all at once, still looks fantastic for its 1997 technology. The setting and characters are rare and unusual for a video … Continue reading →