I know I’m coming late to this story, but is it intriguing to anyone else that someone or -ones tried to kill the Internet last week? Last Tuesday, at 5:30 in the morning, a massive denial of service attack was directed at the root servers that route traffic on the Internet. The Internet did not, of course, perish, but three of the …
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Manhunt 2: Electric Snuffaloo
I remember being assigned a review of Manhunt with the warning that it would be the next great hyper-controversial lawsuit-engendering game, a la Grand Theft Auto. And it is pretty brutal, what with, you know, the slitting of throats with stray shards of glass and such. But as with Bully, it never actually generated much legal paperwork …
God of War 2 Boss Battle
This really is pretty cool: Kratos vs. Giant Gold Guy With Blue Glowy Eyes. Especially given that it’s on PS2. Pulse-pounding previous-gen action! Some further notes on the battle here.
Props to Kotaku. Now they can get back to posting pix of cakes baked in the shape of Zelda characters. Oh snap!
Independent Game Actually Cool
The finalists for this years Independent Games Festival are up. Usually I just ignore this kind of thing, because I’m a lazy bastard and consume whatever corporate America shoves down my limp, lifeless esophagus.
But for some reason I clicked on a free Flash game called Samorost 2. Wow. It’s incredibly atmospheric and beautiful and charming.
Games People (Will Eventually) Play
GameSpot and GameSpy are both posting their Most Wanted Games of 2007 lists. Why don’t they just go ahead and merge already? Ooh, I am totally registering GameSpite.com!
GameSpy is stingily doling its list out day by day over the course of this week, but GameSpot’s full list is up. To wit:
BioShock (2K Games/Irrational Games – Xbox …
More Nerd Book News: What Happened, I Used to Be Cool
The shortlist for the 2006 Arthur C Clarke Award is up. I always try to keep an eye on the Clarke, which skews a little more literary than its colonial equivalents the Hugo and the Nebula. In the past they’ve given it to China Mieville (sorry, too lazy to do the accent) twice, and to Mary Doria Russell’s amazing The Sparrow, and Neal …
Tears for Gears
Today I woke up and thought to myself, holy dammit, I’m going to stand the blogging world on its head with a post that reinvents, nay, transcends the very blogging medium itself. Or I could just complain about Gears of War. I flipped a coin, and waddayaknow?
But seriously, I don’t quite have the sloppy make-outs for this game the way a …