I was going to blog about the new series of D&D podcasts featuring the Penny Arcade guys, Scott Kurtz (PvP) and Wil Wheaton. They’re here. Check out Wheaton when he casts Radiant Vengeance at about 16:00. Dude gets agitated. (Then he rolls a 5.)
Look, Diablo Cody is making a zombie movie! That tears it. (Takes off hat and stomps on it.) At first I thought it was a sequel to Juno, where Dwight Schrute eats that chick’s brain … my hopes are dashed. It’s an adaption of a novel called Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament:
I saw this via the bloggy part of PvP. It’s a comic that explains and also shows some of the cool stuff people could (and, it argues, should) be doing with webcomics.
You know what? I like Swedish mystery thrillers. It seemed like everyone was reading breakout Swede hit, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, so I gave it a look. (By which I mean, “a listen,” thanks to audible.com.) I’ve also recently read several books by the Jonathan Kellerman of Sweden detective writers, [...]
It’s not really fair of me to play Halo Wars. I mean, first it has to get past the apples-and-oranges comparison with the original Halo games. Which makes no sense, but you can’t help it. Then it has to compete with my memories of Bungie’s old RTS Myth, which are sacred and can never be [...]
Not that Moore ever went away. But it makes for a better headline. It’s funny, with all the fuss over Watchmen, you’d almost get the impression that Moore wasn’t still around and writing. Because he’s not participating, everybody sort of talks about him like he’s dead. And I did wonder after the surreal, semi-apocalyptic ending [...]
A few weeks ago I sat down for an hour and a half with Dan Houser, the creative force behind the Grand Theft Auto games, in particular The Lost and Damned, which came out this week. That conversation turned into this piece. I was nervous about writing this piece. I’m a serious gamer and have [...]
I’m a little embarrassed that I’ve rewatched the Transformers 2 trailer a few times:
