Breaking News! Violent Video Games Affect Only Violence Prone

Wednesday 09 June 2010 at 09:54 am So a new report indicates that violent video games only affect some people, and guess what its those that already aren't well adjusted. Big surprise. For the most part video games just reinforce already existing behavior. You can read my rambling on the topic after the break. (more)

Treasure Hunting: Burn Up!

Sunday 06 June 2010 at 2:30 pm Recently, a bunch of DVDs of old anime OVAs from the 80’s and early 90’s have shown up at my local Hastings, many of which have been out of print for awhile. Some of these are shows I watched growing up and were part of the cause of my decent into being an anime fan, but some of them I’ve seen before.

The first of these is an OVA from 1991, Burn Up!, which I just watched last night for the first time. (more)

Are Games Art?

Saturday 17 April 2010 at 8:48 pm There has been a lot of back and forth between Ebert and the gaming community at large over whether or not games can be art. Like most gamers, I side with idea that games can be art, and I've played several that to me are unquestionably art. Well, Ebert recently posted his response to a (failed) argument of games as art by Kellee Santiago of thatgamecompany. He spent some time disagreeing with definition of art used by Santiago, but reading Ebert's response it became very clear to me that his definition of video games is extremely outdated. (more)

Resurrecting the Dead

Monday 29 March 2010 at 1:21 pm Back in college I used to have a message board, Illuminatus (or at least that was its final name, it had a long string of "growing" pains). In early 2009, I "shutdown" the board due to lack of traffic, really I just told everyone that most the posters had moved on to other places and told everyone to join a board many of the original members had moved to. Well, recently, a member I hadn't seen in a long time posted on Illuminatus, and since then some of the old regulars have popped by. Well, being a bit nostalgic for the old community, I've decided to revive the board. We are trying to have a more focused direction than in the past, but we have a long way to go.