Month: May 2011

So… what are you reading and/or watching? I picked up Kurt Busiek’s Astro City Family Album yesterday as well as Vince McMahon’s new movie That’s What I Am. Now all I need is a week or three off…

Dear Jaybird, Thank you for your help with the Dragon Age thing. I’m pretty sure the elf costume hasn’t scarred me for life. Yet. I have another question. I really enjoy video game commentary. Tom Bissell’s book, “Extra Lives” was… Continue Reading →

So… what are you playing? I’m playing LA Noire and am amazed (AMAZED) at the cases they are having you check out. Despite superficial similarities to pretty much every other Rockstar game (excepting Table Tennis) for the last 10 years,… Continue Reading →

We are delighted to have guests tonight and, as such, I cannot post my “Ask Jaybird!” column like I had planned. In any case, I hope that you and yours have a lovely Friday night spent with a kitchenful.

(This is a guest post written by our very own Patrick Cahalan!) If you play games frequently, you may have a somewhat nuanced answer to the question, “what does it mean to win?” When I was a child, winning was… Continue Reading →

So I’m about four missions (counting the tutorial ones, of course) into LA Noire and I can say this: If you are one of those folks who knows the difference between Law And Order and CSI, then you need to get… Continue Reading →

Fatal Frame is probably the scariest game I’ve ever played. The basic plot of the game is pretty silly. You are a young Japanese girl investigating a haunted mansion for your lost brother. A magic camera allows you to shoot… Continue Reading →

I saw the movie The Ring in the theaters around 2PM one Saturday afternoon. Walking out to the car in broad daylight, Maribou and I laughed at the various holes in the plot and drove home and we thought little… Continue Reading →

“You enter a tavern. There is an old man in the corner who beckons to your group. He seems to be holding a map of some kind…” The first half of the first session usually sucks, I’ve found. The whole… Continue Reading →