Ken Levine, as it turns out, is fascinated by choices. The famed designer and current head of Irrational Games has an obsession with the idea of determining the outcome of anything and everything. Perhaps less the end product and more of the process, but the penchant is clear. Thief: The Dark Project, System Shock 2, [...]
If I had to listen to only one person talk for the rest of my life, I think I would have to pick either Jon Stewart or Dave Chappelle. There are definitely more intellectual or more important people I could pick, but these two, I think, are the best verbal storytellers I’ve ever seen. When [...]
There’s a book by Dan Ariely that’s all about the irrational behavior of humans called Predictably Irrational, named as such because the whacky psychological quirks of people is at this point a matter of statistics and the scientific method and not random happenstance. For instance, the price often biases our opinions of a product before [...]
The 84th Academy Awards are set to air on February 26th, 2012 and I’d like to celebrate this important time for the movie industry by spending the month of February watching the 9 films nominated in the Best Motion Picture of the Year category. Over the next three weeks I will be watching three of [...]
Game Review: Rise of Nightmares (Xbox Kinect) Release: September 6, 2011 Genre: Survival Horror Developer: Sega CS3 Available Platforms: Xbox 360 Players: 1 MSRP: $49.99 ESRB Rating: M Website: Rise Of Nightmares Homepage Rise of Nightmares has joined a very short list of games that have given me a reason to continue being scared after the [...]
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