Apparently somebody thinks video game journalists need a style guide to keep things consistent from one publication to the next. David Thomas, Kyle Orland and Scott Steinberg have teamed up to give the gaming media its own manual of style, including, it appears, deciding that, per the title, video game is one word, and not […]
Entries from February 27th, 2007
Shouldn’t someone write this stuff down?
February 26th, 2007 · Comments Off on Shouldn’t someone write this stuff down? · Industry
Supreme Commander has been getting glowing reviews (with a couple of notable holdouts) so I have to add it to my queue of games to get. Total Annihilation rookie or not, you don’t get a new computer just so you can push hex counters along, am I right? And this is a real system pusher, […]
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Things Heard While Watching the Oscars
February 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Industry, Media, Movies
All from my lovely and brilliant wife, who is sadly out of step with the Arts page of the New York Times. “Dreamgirls is a musical?” “What is Apocalypto? I’ve never heard of that.” “There was a movie about Marie Antoinette?” “Remind me what else Martin Scorcese has done.” “Who is that?” (Repeatedly when new […]
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Can someone tell me why…
February 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · GDC
all the GDC parties are on the same night? At the same time? I want to go to all of them.
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Galactic Civilizations 2: Dark Avatar
February 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Review, Sci Fi, Stardock
My review is now up at Gamesradar. The long and the short of it is that this is a good expansion to a great game. A lot of other reviews have, I think, oversold how much is truly new and original here, but there is no denying that this is a must have expansion in […]
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Vox Populi
February 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments · Gamers, Media
The “user review” is standard at gaming websites now. This means you don’t just have an “expert opinion” argued by one of their writers or freelancers, you get a rating derived from how an army of gamers evaluated the game and a few brief reviews from some of these same people. 1up, IGN, Gamerankings…all have […]
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