Years ago I heard Jim Zubkavich posit a theory he called The Wheel of Crap.  The Wheel of Crap states that any media has two opposing potentials, Great, and Crap. Great sits at the top of the whee...

I was thinking about some old games the other day, as I do. I was remembering Fighting Vipers, and it’s sequel Fighting Vipers 2. These are some games that were never very popular, overshadowed by ...

Sometime around the age of 4, I asked everyone to call me Starbuck. I’m sure I demanded it. The character Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica was cool. He talked cool, flew a cool spaceship, fought ...

Best Games - Black Tiger There was a carousel of arcade machines that rolled through the 7-Eleven just down the street from my high school. A regular noon hour activity was to head down to the ‘...

“Games are a journey, and should be covered like travel journalism.”  One of the finest descriptions of games writing I have ever read was that line from Heather Anne Campbell.   She may have bee...

So I wrote a couple weeks back that I was having trouble with my Huion graphics tablet. I had threatened that I would rebuild the whole pc, reinstall windows if I had to, to get my tools working ag...

This is going to seem like some impressively pretentious nonsense. It’s going to seem like semantic garbage. It might even be those things. I think that the way most people typically view art is wr...

I’m using video games to get in better shape. Well I’m not actually playing the games. I’ve been watching other people play games. So far it seems to be working.  I used to ride my bike to work ev...

So, I’ve been trying to get my Huion graphics tablet to work properly on my main PC for a couple of days now. It works fine on the laptop, and presumably, would work properly on any other computer ...

Best Games - DoDonPachi speeding wings of light screaming flurry of bullets stillness equals death