I’m on leave from Time for a month to work on a book, which is leaving me less exposed to nerd things than usual. I haven’t even seen fricking I Am Legend, for frick’s sake. But I’m keeping the blogging flame burning, sort of. Because, you know, it matters.
Today I spent my lunch break noodling around with a list of the best nerd things …
The BAFTA Video Game Awards! They’re the British Oscars. Of video games. BAFTA stands for “British Academy of Film and Television Arts.” Oooo, was Jade Raymond wearing Stella McCartney? (For some reason that was the only fashion designer I could think of.)
Short version, they went absolutely insane over Wii Sports. If you’re curious …
You’ve gotta earn your BioShock: the download’s free on Xbox Live, but it’ll take about 12 hours of your life – or your XBox’s life — to actually secure the data, give or take a month. To my surprise, the results turned out to be unbelievably worth it.
The premise is nonsensical — I’ve read that this game was a tough sell to …
So I’ve been chewing my way through a new game called The Darkness. Trailer below:
The concept is quite an appealing mash-up (sorry for using what has become a journalistic cliche, but it is): A young mafia thug, upon being whacked by his own uncle, discovers that he’s not just a young mafia thug, he’s a young mafia thug who …
There’s always something a little surreal in the way Microsoft handles previews of its Halo franchise. The Halo 3 event this past Friday was typical: instead of, say, staging a demo at a conference room at a hotel, they rented out a bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, complete with a doorman outside. You go inside. It’s dark. The …
