I may have mentioned before that I'm sort of a gadget fiend. I am especially fond of getting new cell phones. While I loved my iPhone I was also patiently waiting for that "iPhone killer" to come along. As time went on I got more and more tired of my iPhone. The problem was I couldn't justify switching it out because nothing else available really compared. Eventually my thirst for a new gadget outweighed my better judgment and I picked up the new At&T Fuze. This is just their version of the HTC Touch Pro. I was interested in the slide out keyboard, but mostly it was the promise of their "TouchFLO" interface that got me excited. I've had the phone now for about three days and I can honestly tell you that TouchFLO is a pile of shit. 

In the most incredible season of electronic entertainment on record, I'm not ready to be yoked by a single game - to pull a plow with my neck through some frozen continent. It's the classic pendulum swing, away from persistence and toward immediacy. I have a feeling the game will still be around when things swing the other way.

Thoughts and considerations from the Gears 2 Campaign.

I've been posting my paintings on the site recently and I've had a lot of requests from people looking to own one. Well, now is you're chance to do just that. I've gone ahead and set up an eBay auction for my Jim Darkmagic painting. 100% of the proceeds will be going directly to Child's Play. The painting is Acrylic on Canvas, it's 16"x20" and comes already framed. This was the second painting I did and I'm really hoping it will go to a good home.

It's true: I do own the Lancer.  And Gabriel does own Frostmourne.  Well, we might say that he owns a Frostmourne. My weapon arrived on Friday, and the conversation that followed has been transcribed here.

When we were trawling for villains on Facebook earlier in the week, the urge to exhume ancient foes struck me as universal for some reason. Seemed like a body could make a comic outta that.

Reading about economic woes at Electronic Arts just as they're starting to do right is incredibly disheartening.  

Regardless of the hardware you play it on, the Mirror's Edge demo is a good time investment, provided you are able to retain your lunch.

Making action-packed Precipice Dioramas seems like a fine investment of a Friday afternoon. 

We've complained about the releases already, earlier in the month, when we thought the situation was still kind of funny. We'd managed to cull the list of absolutely necessaries down, and felt that we could move into November assured of our purpose.

I was enthralled by Tomb Raider: Legend, caught in its jaws, and if (the demo accurately represents the sequel) there's no escape for me anytime soon. I have many traits that annoy my compatriot, but chief among them is probably my desire to know why my character is doing the things they are doing in games. In Lara Croft's case, is it, like, calisthenics? Does she just have a tomb-centered fitness regimen? It's a credit to Crystal Dynamics that, while they were in the process of resurrecting Tomb Raider, they also gave the character an overarching goal which the player can inherit if they choose. It's not an absolute necessity, and I don't mind creating that kind of stuff myself. But it's nice to have the desire for a coherent motivation recognized, and it enriches the series retroactively.