(This is part 2 of an irregular series about my attempts to turn my daughter into a complete dork.)
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I’ve been a flighty gamer this fall. Like a wee little faun hopping from glen to glen. After my passionate — and I’m talkin’ Twilight passionate — obsession with Halo: ODST, I briefly, sluttily hooked up with a whole series of games. Like:
Only by taking … this dagger … to the secret guardian temple … can you make me stop breathlessly uttering exposition …
I will love my daughter whatever and whoever she becomes. But yeah, I’m not going to lie to you, it would be cool if she turned out nerdy like her dad. Sadly, neuroscience has not progressed to the point where I can literally force Lily, through a nightmarish barrage of drugs, neurosurgery and post-hypnotic commands, [...]
Remember that thing Time does every fall, where we pick the best inventions of the year? No? Now? Still not?
It’s above. Everything’s bigger, faster, louder — in other words very sequel-y. But it’s still about moral choices, people. You’re not actually supposed to enjoy incinerating splicers with your awesome plasmids!
The other day Peter and I were floating around on our hoversofas being fed grapes by our sexy robot servants when the question of the year’s top 10 games came up. It seems ridiculously early in the year, but for various reasons having to do with the exciting field of magazine production, we have to [...]
I’d heard about this, but I never bothered to check it out till I saw the trailer posted on io9:
It’s like how the package art on action figures was always so epic, and then you open it and you have this little injection-molded plastic turd with like one articulated joint. I would happily pay $12 to see movies based on these trailers. But will the games live up to them? How could they possibly?
Now we have nooks and vooks, I’m going to go trademark wook and pook just in case.
