Onomatoplaya
How many games can you play while doing the activity depicted? Margaret Robertson comes up with a grand total of… Chocolate Castle!
What’s the Matter with Runescape?
I recently had a conversation with my ten year-old son that I had been longing to have since before he was born, since before I was even sure I really wanted to have kids. We were well into the eleventh hour of a game of Risk that had […]
Spoiler Warning!
Check out Half-Life 1 and 2 in 60 seconds – with a just a few spoilers 😉
Collect’em All, Kill’em All
Ever feel kind of sick reflecting on a game you enjoy? Flak Magazine’s James Norton does some soul-searching over Adult Swim’s almost Peckinpah flash game, Viva Caligula! “You personify the mad emperor Caligula as he goes on a neighborhood – to – neighborhood killing spree through Rome, taking […]
Hip Hop Grue
You are likely to be eaten by a Grue. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Nerdcore hip hop visionary MC Frontalot is on tour and soon to be in the documentary, Nerdcore Rising.
Games Through a Comix Lens
The book Understanding Comics, published in 1993, was comic writer and artist Scott McCloud’s attempt to deconstruct, demystify, and lay out the magic of the sequential art form. Written in the form of a comic itself, it was one mechanism by which comics rose from the shadows of […]
The Cultural Gutter 