Archive for April 11th, 2011

Reported! Don’t let the wife catch you reading this!

, | Features

Quick, read this before it gets buried under the rest of the Front Page spam errrr content! No really I love Little Big Planet! Heh!  

It wouldn’t be the internet we all know and partially loathe if it didn’t have threads where selfish people whine about their relationship dysfunctions like petulant babymen and are thusly called out by clueless social mutants who compensate for their own empty lives by criticizing the lives of others. Games are tearing this house apart!  

And it wouldn’t be Qt3 if we all didn’t show how cheap and old we were and pretended like the computer age never happened and even if it did, it disappeared in the mid-1990’s. Wow, guys.  

More objects of scorn and ridicule after the jump. Continue reading →

Shift 2: Viper envy

, | Game diaries

If I had a million dollars, I’d buy a Dodge Viper. Just because. I’m not sure what that says about me and I’m not sure I want to know. But I tell you this by way of explaining that when I’m playing a racing game, I’m driven (ha ha) to pick up a Viper as soon as I can. I am fueled (ha ha) by crazy dreams of being able to actually make any headway with it. Which never happens. For me, the Dodge Viper is an excellent vehicle for accelerating quickly into the nearest wall and, depending on the damage model, crunching up that big beautiful hood.

Surely there’s some practical use for this gorgeous car, right?

After the jump, the Viper is good for only one thing Continue reading →

April 11, 2011: wallet threat level green

, | Games

I regret to inform you that Patapon 3 is nowhere near as good as Patapon 2. I suppose it’s an okay game, but it betrays a lot of what made Patapon 2 special. I’ll have a full review on 1up later this week, but my current assessment is that if you loved Patapon 2, your wallet isn’t any danger.

Otherwise, this week sees the release of a Vietnam war expansion for Magicka. You’d think I was making that up, but I’m pretty sure I’m not. Also out this week is an MMO about tanks called — again, I promise I’m not making this up — World of Tanks. I can’t imagine it’s not silly. We’ll have a game diary for it along shortly in case I need to be set straight.