Gaming

Wii Downloading

The throbbing blue slit when I woke up tipped me off that the Opera beta for the Wii was released this morning. I downloaded it this morning, and it’s an int...

Nintendo Replacing Wii Remote Straps

In some games, playing the Wii can be very physical. Wii sports, for example, takes its cue from real sports: The harder you play, the better you’ll do. Howe...

Trade Wii Codes With Me

I finally got my grubby little hands on a Wii, thanks to Chris and Katie. It’s pretty sweet, but I’ll save my thoughts for later.

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

After a couple of of months of Metro time, and a few weekend hours here and there, I’ve finally beaten Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time for the DS. It was...

GenCon 2006

Were you wondering where I was? Me, neither.

Nintendo DS Surprises Me

Our good friends Greg & Kat came to visit us this past weekend. Greg is a video game junkie, and works for Cranky Pants Games.

Draw a dragon? That’s easy!

In Brain Age, one of the things you are asked to do is draw things from memory without any reference. You’re just up and asked to draw a giraffe or chainsaw ...

Galactic Civilizations 2

I was a big fan of the original Galactic Civilizations. It was everything that Masters of Orion 3 wanted to be, and was an amazing example of how gameplay is...

Why I Keep Buying Nintendos

This article on Nintendo’s Genre Innovation Strategy made the rounds a while ago, but it came up in conversation about the upcoming Nintendo Revolution. It t...

GenCon Schedule

GenCon event registration begins on Monday, May 16th, at 12:00 PST. To help my friends coordinate, here’s my currently planned schedule. You guys know which ...

Back Home from GenCon

Well, I’m back home after being dark for several days at GenCon. I only opened my computer to play music, and the world didn’t end. However, I did have over ...

GenCon Day #4

Ryan and I were registered for a Magic Unglued tournament, so we hauled our asses out of bed early enough to make it there on time. It was a sealed deck tour...

GenCon Day #3

Ah – Saturday. The con was really crowded today as all the weekend attendees flocked in. Ryan and I played the worst Star Wars game EVAR!! The module was cal...

GenCon Day #2

The only event on my calendar was a DM session on creating adventures. However, we stayed up so late the night before (Thanks Munchkin!) that we didn’t wake ...

GenCon Day #1

Today is the first day of the Con. Since I pre-registered, we could walk right in and up to our first Lunch Money game at 10:00. That is a very good thing be...

GenCon Day #-1

Nothing too crazy today. I spent most of the day working, and Mike and Dawn took Jeff to the Indiana State Fair for the day. He apparantly had a great time.

GenCon Day #-2

Today wasn’t really a GenCon day, but it’s my first day in Indianapolis for GenCon, so I’m counting it as Day #1. Chris was nice enough to take me to the air...

Specialty Bunnies Are Their Own Color

Mike writes, “Brian, on specialty bunnies read the instructions that came with the booster. Any 3 bunnies gets 2 cards.” The instructions actually say, “If a...

New Explosive Ammo Version

I’ve put together a new version of the Unreal Tournament 2004 Explosive Ammo Mutator. This new version fixes the single-player special effects that were brok...

Mutator Popularity

The explosive ammo mutator got noticed over at the Atari forums. A quick grep 'ExplosiveAmmo.zip' access_log | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sort | uniq | wc -l reveals ...

UT2004 Explosive Ammo Mutator

My current gaming addiction is Unreal Tournament 2004. I just cannot get enough of this game. Of the ten different game modes, Onslaught really takes the c...

Legacy of Kain: Defiance

Amazingly, I actually had time to finish a game. Of course, I had to stay up until 6:00 in the morning to do it, but what the hell…that’s what’s so nice abou...