Resident Evil 5 Controversy

I’ve been thinking for a while about how best to address the controversy surrounding the recently-released Resident Evil 5 trailer. The trailer, which depicts Chris Redfield (a white male) shooting black zombies in what appears to be Africa, has raised more than a few eyebrows. Kim Platt is one of many people who find the […]

Feature: When Pundits Attack

The internet has been lit up lately by a bunch of people posting their opinions about video games. Actually, I guess it’s that way all the time, but lately the specific question being asked is: ‘does quality matter?‘. As next gen prices rise and making a profit gets harder, developers and their marketing departments are […]

This is Crunch

I wake up at 6:45. Brush my teeth, drink my coffee, realize I have to brush my teeth again. Check my work e-mail from home, read through the 30-odd messages that have already arrived, and respond as coherently as possible to a few. I try to get out of the house by 7:30, and I […]

Headed to E3

I’m off to E3 tomorrow. Though the conference runs for three days, this year I have decided to visit for only a single day. After six or seven hours in the Los Angeles Convention Center I find myself almost unable to stand and mostly deaf. Last year I posted a lengthy rant about the direction […]

Innovating within the corporate world

Warning: long, sort of pointless rant that has very little to do with horror game follows. If you read this site often you might have noticed a recurring theme in my rants: I’m of the opinion that the video game industry is shooting itself in the foot with its death march towards computational perfection. Every […]

Stay Away

Producer #1: Ok, we need a movie to fill our release schedule out in March 2004. Producer #2: Hmm, we should target teens… how about a horror movie!? Producer #1: Sounds good. We should be able to throw one of those together in six months. But we need a hook… how about a demonic web […]

IE Really Sucks

So I just noticed that my page has been broken under Windows Internet Explorer for who knows how long. Every other browser–Safari, Firefox, Opera, Mac OS IE–renders the page correctly, but IE under Windows XP fails horribly. Specifically, all the text on this page was mysteriously centered. I’ve fixed the problem, but the real solution […]

Pre E3 Rant-a-thon

I’m off to E3 for the rest of the week, so updates will be sporatic-to-non-existant. In my absence, why don’t you roll over to Die, Zombie, Die!, a highly excellent horror game website. Spookycreepy has a new monster image gallery up, which I recommend you check out forthwith. So here’s my pre-E3 take on the […]

Site Updates

I’ve made a few changes today. First of all, I’ve added some more links to the side bar, including The MagicBox, which is where I get almost all of my news lately. I’ve also enabled comments in the news archive (they were broken before). Finally, I’ve noticed that some people were using the new rating […]