As I was about to rummage through the crawl-space of my parents’ house, competing for elbow room with spiders and six-inch centipedes, searching for my ancient game-boy, I downloaded Slayin by Pixel Licker Games. I rolled up the soon-to-be journey into the depths of the crawl-space to reunite myself with the classical 8-bit music of [...]
“You think we are gonna shoot any deer around here?” Jeb asked, as he and Tom ducked under the maple leaves. “I don’t know. Stop asking,” Tom said. He sat on a rock to empty the dirt, sticks and rocks from his shoes. “We’ll probably just shoot the empty cans of beer.” “Do you even [...]
This is an important question to answer since we are living in the beginning of a decade that is questioning the influence violence in video games has on our culture. To answer the question: no, Bioshock Infinite is not too violent. Based on Infinite’s heavy themes, I think it’s fair to claim it has the [...]
There hasn’t been a game released that’s been more fitting for the decade than Bioshock Infinite. Perhaps Bioshock Infinite is the Magnus Opus of a medium that hasn’t been accepted by the literary and art communities for what it can potentially accomplish when it comes to stimulating the left side of the brain: whether video [...]
Our story begins on an average day, when I decided to sell an expensive camera I’d purchased for a Journalism class. I needed the money desperately, so I placed an ad on Kijiji. The response was almost immediate: I had five or six text messages within an hour about the thing. It wasn’t just the [...]
Recently I started on a Chloë Sevigny binge and stumbled upon a miniseries she did, titled, “Hit & Miss”. The description of a show about a transgender assassin was enough to send me flying toward a legally purchased* copy of the show. Its creator, Paul Abbot, is the writer and producer of “Shameless” starring [...]
Stand in front of the bathroom mirror and write. It doesn’t matter if fingers are moving like a tap dancer across a touchscreen, or scribbling with a dulling pencil on a notepad. Every now and then look up at the image in the mirror. Stare into its eyes as you write. Track the movement of [...]
These brothers are the gunfire Mario Bros. as if they were imagined to be real. Instead of Koopas and Goombas it’s bull-dogs (foaming at the mouth and with massive haunches) and do-do brained mafia men. The classic stomp enemies on the head until their brain is leaking from their nose and ears remains, but The [...]
Alright, I admit that I only play this game to listen to the theme in an infinite loop. The fact that I am playing this game, which is an endless runner, is to cover up my adoration for the song. If someone on transit were to asks me, as if shaming me, why are you [...]
Outer space is such a lonely place. Cruising through this great void, passing asteroids and temperamental gas giants, I miss my wife, I miss the human race. And I think it’s going to be a long-long time until I find the muse again. I’d like to imagine that this is a spaceship containing the [...]