Endangered Gamer

the argument has been around for quite a while now, but The Marriage is one that takes abstraction to a new level. the game's creator can sum it up.... The Marriage is intended to be art. No excuses or ducking. As such its certainly meant to be enjoyable but not entertaining in the traditional sense most games are. This means I am certain to be perceived as being pretentious by some who read this, my apologies. This is also a very difficult game to understand, again my apologies. Initially you have two squares a blue and a pink, on screen. Soon different coloured circles will enter and leave the play space. You have two controls. 1.) When you mouse over the blue or pink square the blue square reduces in size and both squares move towards each other. 2.) When you mouse over a circle it disappears and the pink square gets smaller. When the edge of the blue square collides (or “kisses”) with the edge of the pink square (but ...

I love shit like this.....

out now on marketplace.... oops. April 17th. sorry.

ask this kid about monsters. go ahead.

initial reactions to the trailer Wow, they used the music to Koyaanisqatsi!!!!! is this new york?? wow, that street looks like shit..... glad to see the humor's intact.... is this guy russian?? considering the controversy the immigrant debate is creating, it's no surprise GTA is making the main character a "criminal immigrant" it IS new york!!!! maybe the game takes place in the entire WORLD!!!!!! looks like in-game engine, but i'm not sure it is yet..... gah, it's over ALREADY???????? watch it again!!!!

New photos have surfaced of Spider Man 3's second villan, Venom. he looks kind of shitty, but there's no CGI yet, so i'll let it slide....for now......

Mario Bros. Lego Uploaded by Bibi-de-Bibopof

according to Xbox360fanboy.com *sigh*

Ign reports that Team Ninja's mysterious new project is in fact Ninja Gaiden:Dragon Sword. Controlled entirly with the touch pad, it is played holding the DS like a book, a-la Brain Age. here's to hoping this isn't a april fool's day joke......

So i just read a post on that said that the Mexico City police were starting a program to entice the population to exchange pistols and other weapons for computers and Xboxs. from Reuters Launching the program on Tuesday in the notorious inner-city barrio of Tepito, which police stormed last month, city police chief Joel Ortega said anyone who turns in a high-caliber weapon like a machine gun will get a computer.Police who have raided vice-ridden Mexico City neighborhoods in a push against drug violence hope to take guns off the streets by offering to swap them for computers and video-game consoles. Owners can swap smaller guns for cash or Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video-game consoles under the plan.Organizers say they have 100 computers ready for the first wave of the program, each worth 8,500 pesos ($769) and equipped with software donated by Microsoft. On the first day, Olayo said the city received 17 guns, including 12 from Tepito. This needs to be expanded to the U.S.

I'm hearing rumblings from the intertubes, whispers and buzz growing louder and louder.It seems like more than a few sites have been speculating on the reason for Xbox Live's downtime today . Could this point to the imminent release of the Halo 3 beta???? Boy, i sure hope so, but i'm not counting on it. It would be a great way to relieve the XBL network of the millions (and MILLIONS) of halo freaks who would download the beta as soon as it popped up. on a side note, i've been watching this story closely all evening, and I've just got to say that Microsoft has probably the best community "face" of the big 3 (Sony, MS and Nintendo). Major Nelson has been updating his blog and something called Twitter , giving the Live fans updates constantly and keeping the info lines open. when you have a question about the Xbox 360 or XBL, it's nice to know there's someone listening.

sequel to 28 days later, in theaters soon. bonus points for the radiohead music.

Some enterprising young chap came up with a homebrew Mario game,using elements of the sidescrolling mario games and a few surprisingly innovative new gameplay mechanics. too bad the Nintendo lawyers are on their way to his house as we speak......

I don't know what possessed these people to dance dressed as Chun Li and Ryu, but i hope they at least got a few drinks out of it.....

here is some video....

family stuff has kept me from updating this site for a few days. I've been waiting for a response from the shadowrun devs about the NDA being lifted, but all i've been able to come up with is a bunch of posts claiming that it has. Since i haven't heard anything to the contrary, here it goes. In one sentence, Shadowrun is a mashup of Counterstrike's shop-for-abilities-and-guns-every-round structure and Halo's run and gun gameplay , with some seriously bad-ass magic and tech abilities thrown in. They use essence points, of which you have eight. using any of the tech or magic abilities consume essence, which regenerates when the effects of the tech or magic wear off. Basically , the game breaks down into a few phases. Pregame lobby You select your team, and what race you want to play as. Human, Elf, Troll or Dwarf. abilities and attributes are different for each race, as well as essence used for tech and abilities . Pre -round here you spend money to buy m...

I've always liked XPlay, they're the only network gamer show that does videogame humor right. most of the time. here's a look into the life of a mii.

I got into the shadowrun beta test. yay. i can't say any more.

So i just got through playing 18 holes on Tiger Woods 07 for the Wii, and boy do i feel ...sleepy. first things first, if you plan on playing this game with only the wiimote, get ready for some tired legs and arms. the game requires you to go through the full range of motion during a swing, and to do so, you must be standing up, unless you're one of those people who get around on basketballs. it's tiring if you're playing more than 3 games, so i'm gratfull they included a control scheme using the nunchuck. going back to the wiimote, your movements rarely coincide with what's going on onscreen. the biggest problems i had were with the tee shot and the putting. it's almost impossible to get a optimal shot off the tee, and although the putting green height and break indicators are the best ANY EA sports game have ever had, the motions aren't read very well. i even had a few cases of the wiimote acting on it's own, with no movement from me. It might see...

Everybody and their mama is joining in the Borg-like absorption of Nintendo into every high school in the country. It's not that I'm sick of kids having fun, but in this Youtube age, you're painfully aware that your "secret" obsession is actually pretty mainstream. oh well.

the responses are coming fast and furious!!!!!

Sometimes things fall into place so perfectly that I freak out. Like the peanut butter driver that crashed into the chocolate truck, i found strange inspiration from two unlikely sources today. first off, there was a story on Kotaku today about some uber gangster wannabe who made a "Why PS3 is better than the Wii and 360" video. The guy is either the biggest idiot in existence, or a clever hipster in disguise (yeah, fat chance!!) Normally, i do my browsing with multiple tabs open in Firefox, so earlier i was checking a story about the Cooking Mama Cookoff Nintendo was sponsoring in New York for the launch of Cooking Mama for the Wii. the official site has a loop of music playing, but since the sound was down on my pc, i didn't get to hear it till i turned it up to listen to the gangster PS3 fanboy. needless to say, the Cooking Mama menu music was the PERFECT accompaniment to the rant our 15 Cent wannabe was delivering. If you don't believe me, check it out. open...

I remember having a dream like this a few days after playing Katamari Damacy for a 6 hour stretch. (get on my 360, NOW!!!!!)

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is coming to XBLA next Wednesday (finally!!!) wow. babies sure do love the wii...... super mario bros. theme......wait for it.......on drums!!!!! life in japan must be so awesome....imagine a game like this in your arcade..... Darren Aronofsky, the director of Pi and Requium for a Dream has directed a few commercials for Montana's meth project. they are :30 seconds of intensity, and watching them is shocking to say the least. I didn't know meth was this bad, so i'll steer clear. then again, it's probably not aimed at me, but at the kids. Hey, i want to blow up some cool sandcastles, and then watch it in reverse. wha??? there's video ALREADY??? damn. shiggy say wha?? yay, new Katamari Damacy tshirts!!!!

My wife got me into listening to NPR a few years ago, when we met (again). Since then, I've been a fan of Car Talk and the recently cancelled Oddessy, with Gretchen Helfridge . I mostly listen in the morning, and last month i heard a story on 848 about something called nasal irrigation . here's a description..... Nasal irrigation is an ancient personal hygiene practice, originating from the Yoga practice of Jala Neti (literally: "water cleansing"), which involves regularly flooding the nasal cavity with warm salty water. the saline solution rinses the nasal passages, clearing dried mucus and allowing the sinuses to drain freely. To practice nasal irrigation, fill a neti pot with a saline solution prepared according to the directions above. Stand over a sink and tilt the head to the side and slightly forward. Insert the spout of the neti pot into the upper nostril, allowing the saline solution to flow into the upper nostril, through the nasal passages, and out ...

This Friday is a birthday. not just any birthday, it's Destructoid's birthday. Since it's launch last year, it's been #1 on my rss reader, and the BEST gaming blog on the internets. Other sites might be bigger, or have more visitors, but Destructoid is the only place you'll get a gamer's perspective on events and press releases, with no filler or PR speak. seriously, check them out. you won't be disappointed.

i saw this movie last night, and what a mess. really, the movie is a directionless disaster, boring characters, and the most pretentious, overwrought and heavy-handed voiceovers . maybe in the hands of a more competent director, it might have been good, but whoever the hack was that directed this should go back to making the Power Rangers. CG blood and the slow-motion carnage looked cheap, and it felt more like a shitty Sci- Fi channel movie than the epic it aspires to be.

but don't blame me if it sucks.... IT sucks. really.

trailers for Zelda:phantom hourglass, Super Mario Galaxy, and Portal.

almost a year to the day, i get fucked again . Lollapalooza tickets went on presale this morning, and again i checked my email too late, and was stuck staring at this for an hour until the official announcement that they were sold out. FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!!!

Never got to play any of the previous Paper Mario games, but this Wii version has got me hooked. it seems like Nintendo (through the developer Intelligent Systems) have nailed the old-school vibe of the early Mario games and brought them kicking and Goomba-smashing into the next generation. flipping perspectives and getting 8-bit on the enemies looks like fun, and the art style is really cool, too. hopefully I'll be getting this game as soon as it comes out. GDC footage.

wow, it's been a LOOOONG time (never) since I've been excited about a PS3 game. Little Big Planet might not seem like a game with longevity, but the incredible Tim Burton-like art style is awesome , and the co-op emergent game play looks fantastic. I want to see more of this game, and get more details on the level editor, sharing system and other stuff hinted at in the following videos. the physics-based game play just screams Garry's Mod , but i won't hold it against them.

Sony just unveiled it's new "thing" for the PS3, Playstation Home . it's a Second Life-like app that combines virtual spaces, interactive games and game achievement trophies. I'm on the fence about this, since it seems like alot of effort into something that doesn't really have anything to do with GAMES, which is what the PS3 really,really needs right now. That being said, it does sound cool, but i don't think it's any better than what Nintendo or Microsoft have done. Just different. I left what i had written a few hours ago up, because i wanted to really see what this was all about. after watching and reading up on all the coverage, ( check out Gametab.com for most, if not all the relevant posts on all the major gaming sites..) I really REALLY like what Sony's doing here. yeah, it has nothing to do with games, but it has everything to do with community. I probably should step back and say it has nothing to do with games that i care about, ...

If you've been having a problem getting all the Secret Orbs in Crackdown, here's a great resource to track down the bastards. it includes screenshots of all the locations, so get going!!!!

i like!!!

You betrayed the LAWL!!!!!!

Chewbacca and R2D2 discuss the pros and cons of a flat tax. for reals.

crackdown super climb clean up that nwa!!! ] perverto gameboys

from Bits, Bytes, Pixels and Sprites.....

Scientists are fucking awesome. they invent cool shit all the time and this bad-ass snake is one of the best robots i've seen in a loong time. Try to keep in mind that it's a robot, the movements are so natural and lifelike. (yay i avoided a dick joke!!!!)

Wonder why Sony has been getting soo much bad press lately ? why everyone is dissing the PS3 and calling out EVERY instance of their corporate stupidity ??? From claiming that the rumble feature would not be missed in their PS3, to claiming that you can't find a PS3 in ANY store , Sony's PR people have stumbled and bumbled their way into 3rd place in the present console war. On Thursday,Brian Crecente from kotaku posted a story about a genuine bright spot for PS3 owners, after Phil Harrison himself teased it up the day before . You'd think that the attention he got from making that statement would fire up Sony fanboys, and whatever he was going to announce would be leaked, as so much is these days. Well, Sony came back and got all hissy with Kotaku , to the point that they threatened t blackball Kotaku and deny access to all Sony PR events at the upcoming GDC convention. "So, it is for this reason, that we will be canceling all further interviews for Kotaku s...

I think i ate enough of this stuff to make me shit rainbows.

A show about gamers that doesn't' suck??? this might be the first. It's a little crazy to pitch a show in a 1:44 min trailer, but I'm interested in where this goes. check out the official site here , with more info and a additional trailer.

Super Dodge Ball was one of the first multiplayer games that i was really obsessed over, to the point that i was making skill stat sheets and noting the damage made by special attacks and defensive strength. The stereotypical (racist?) characters were mostly palette-swapped clones, but the core gameplay kicked so much ass, i wore out a few controllers playing the hell out of this game...almost as much as Tecmo Bowl. Hopefully Nintendo releases this gem of a game onto the Virtual Console, so i won't have to dig out my modded Xbox to play it. Here's some strategy vids to explain some of the finer points of gameplay. So a LOOOONG time ago , ( last year) a couple of kids made a bad-ass light saber duel video. I posted about it early in this blog's life, (before i knew how to embed videos) and internet fame followed . ( for them, not me.) well, the monkeys are back with Ryan vs. Dorkman 2, and it's just as good, if not better than the original.

On March 29th, Rockstar is promising a GTA IV trailer. It's got alot to live up too, but the inclusion of the Naturalmotion Euphoria physics system might lauch it over the new open world king, Crackdown. Here's a video of the Naturalmotion engine in action.