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« Previous Entries Next Entries »The Top Ten Things Geeks Should be Thankful For This Thanksgiving 2007
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
10. First-person shooters
There’s been no shortage of great 1st-person shooters released this year: Halo 3, Bioshock, Crysis, Call of Duty 4, and Half-Life 2: Episode Two.
Nor has there been a shortage of baddies available for pwnage in these titles; take your pick of aliens, mutants, and even North Koreans.
Let’s all do our part [...]
Geeky Signs of the Apocalypse
Monday, October 29th, 2007Wouldn’t it be nice to know exactly when the apocalypse is coming? For one, you’d be able to cancel those final, sweaty spin classes you were dreading… ’cause no one cares if your ass is fat when you’re burning in the hellfires of eternal damnation. Right, sinner?
If only you knew what signs to [...]
The Ten Best Zombie Media to Feed Your Brain
Monday, August 20th, 2007I only recently realized that I’ve gone gah-gah for the zombie genre. It kind of snuck up on me.
As zombies are prone to do.
VIDEO GAME: Dead Rising
Resident Evil has nothing on Dead Rising. And it never will, at least not until you can smash zombies with cash registers, park benches, dumbbells, hockey sticks, [...]
The Shortest Route to Sacrilege: Suggesting New Characters for the Next Bibleman Video Game
Thursday, August 16th, 2007Bibleman (who?) has got himself a video game. Stick this in your holy pipe and take a puff:
Voice-over: “Imagine an animated world where there is no God… or no faith. Where the arch-villian Wacky Protester can trap you there… forever. Now you have the power to help Bibleman, Cypher, and Biblegirl in [...]
Five Lessons from the Xbox 360 for Keeping Customers Loyal to a Broken Product
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Isn’t it so cute when mainstream news outlets run analysis on esoteric, geeky topics?
The New York Times thinks it has a handle on why gamers stay loyal to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 in spite of its atrocious failure rates. Since I know you get uncomfortable with all the big words that they tend to use [...]
Sotheby’s Auctions a Bunch of Atari Stuff
Thursday, June 21st, 2007This morning, Sotheby’s is auctioning off a bunch of Atari paraphernalia from 1981-1983.
An extensive archive of original marketing materials (as detailed below) from the “Golden Age” of Atari, ca. 1981 to 1983, comprising more than 2,000 items of widely varying sizes and formats, including manuscript memorandum, internal specification guidelines, original sketches, blue lines, mechanicals, proofs, [...]
