For the last couple of weeks I’ve been getting brief comments – on topic – from people who use their username or URL field to advertise casinos. I reserve the right to edit your name and URL. If you want to advertise, contact me. Don’t do it in my comments section.

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Notice how the Sports Illustrated page has real news on it and isn’t trying to be wacky? Why does the games media take this day to heart so much? You get wacky lists, fake press releases, ludicrous patch notes on every single site. None of this takes any real effort and only reinforces in my [...]

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So on Tom’s recommendation in the last podcast, I picked up Rune Factory 2. He was not kidding about the slow start. You begin with a hoe, a watering can and barely enough money for seeds once you sell the herbs that are cluttering up your farmland. Swords are expensive, too. He also warned about [...]

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Credit to Randall Munroe at xkcd.

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I was supposed to be in LA in mid-afternoon, but thanks to Southwest making me swap flights in Phoenix, I only arrived in my hotel room a few minutes ago. Which means I did not get to register today, so it will be an early morning rush to beat the rush. Good news is that [...]

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Now that Computer Gaming World is officially Games for Windows, it’s probably a great time for the Ziff Davis people to upload the covers of every single CGW printed. They’ve also made available the complete text of the first 100 magazines, stretching from 1981 to November 1992 – an amazing resource for people as interested [...]

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