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People get sentimental about PAX. When it was over Wil Wheaton tweeted — possibly only semi-ironically — that he “needed a moment.”
But it’s true, PAX is different. Partly because it’s for fans, not the industry. Partly because it’s almost freakishly well-run. Partly because it’s animated by the spirits of Gabe and Tycho, a.k.a. …
No seriously, I say the phrase “bitch god” in this one. The god in question is Poseidon. Other than that I have no idea what I was talking about.
Peter’s away at GDC this week, along with Evan, where they are probably using up our entire expense budget for the year. So it’s me and Steve, the movie guy, talking Tron, God of War III, …
Part 1 was Wednesday. This is the second and final part.
Here we discuss why the Kick-Ass movie was almost a huge disaster, Millar’s three favorite comics, Dr. Manhattan’s giant blue dick, what he learned from being punched in the face, twice, and the failure of a generation of comics writers.
It’s important to imagine Millar …
Last week I got to talk to Mark Millar on the phone. Even if you haven’t heard of Millar — which you probably have — you know his work. He did major work on X-Men and Captain America. He did Marvel’s Civil War. He did Wanted. He did one of my all-time favorite graphic novels, Red Son, wherein Superman lands in Soviet Russia instead of …
This week on the Techland show we once again feature our intern Allie Townsend. Not only do Allie’s posts get more traffic than mine, she also got to see Alice before I did. This time next year Allie will probably have my job. The year after that she’ll have your job.
We get to the bottom of that and much more in this week’s …
I’m not super into straight-up repostings of other people’s repostings of links, but I am sufficiently skeeved by an article in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine that I can’t help it.
It’s a piece about a practice, apparently (the evidence is compelling but anecdotal) increasingly common in China: somebody gets caught doing …
There are signs of life from Aperture Science. Valve released on update for its incredibly compelling puzzle game Portal yesterday. This has set off a mad scramble through one of those weird augmented-reality scavenger hunts, starting with radios in the game releasing screechy audio transmissions, which were decodable into a series of …
Penny Arcade is/are doing a dee-luxe hardcover book called The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade in honor of their 10th anniversary. If you don’t know what Penny Arcade is, it’s one of the greatest comics on the Web. Or off it. Go there and don’t come back for at least two hours.
Go ahead. I’ll wait.
OK. So when they decided to do an …
About a year ago I took a shot at a list of the top 10 portals between worlds, and the post got a lot of good comments. Ah, those were the days.
Anyhoo, we were talking about this w/r/t Alice hitting theaters this week, and I thought I’d revisit the subject in the form of a practical guide. A set of rules, if you will, for navigating …
It may have cost them years of their lives, but I feel pretty confident that OK Go will once again ride the giant viral sandworm with this video. I think my personal favorite moment is the smashed TV at 3:39.
The making-of doc is below, in four …
Given that Plants vs. Zombies is now, apparently, the top-selling iPhone game launch of all time, and now that there exists actual Plants Vs. Zombies porn (NSFW, don’t say I didn’t warn you, because I just did, and I’m doing it again right now), and now that I have finished adventure mode, I feel it is time to put some of my opinions out …