Time for some Doom, Saint’s Row, and perhaps a little more Dead Rising.
Archive for September, 2006
Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse
25Sep06I’ve spent what I can only describe as a ludicrous amount of time at my office discussing defense about the coming zombie apocalypse. We’ve talked about everything from the ultimate zombie killing weapon to the best way to defend our office. I read most of Max Brooks’ Zombie Survival Guide this weekend, and as a [...]
Franchise whoring ^2
22Sep06 Take two massive franchises and put them together, what do you get? One helluva fun franchise all it’s own. I loved the first Lego Star Wars game, and the second one is even better.
Sure, it’s really, really short. The graphics aren’t so hot. And, it’s a damn kids game, but I honestly had more [...]
Vindication!
22Sep06 I knew there was something up with the first few shipments of Xbox 360s. Microsoft’s repairing all the pre-2006 Xbox 360s for free, and refunding the payments people for people who had to pay for out of service repairs.
Here’s the quote:
As part of our standard and ongoing process of analyzing repair data, we recently [...]
On Blogging…
21Sep06 I just now figured out the real benefit of blogging. For me it’s quickly replacing the journal I never updated as a place to organize and flesh out thoughts on different topics. Here’s a “for instance”:
I’ve spent the last few days trying to figure out exactly what I wanted to write this month’s editorial [...]
Let’s talk about Flock
13Sep06I’ve spent the last few days either working feverishly on our Holiday issue or enjoying the media circus that Apple manages to attract at every launch event. While I enjoyed seeing rev5.1 iPods and am moderately interested in the new Nano, I still don’t understand why the mainstream and tech media shows up in such [...]
11,753
09Sep06That’s the number of zombies I had to kill in order to finish Dead Rising, which is far and away my favorite Xbox 360 game so far this year. It’s a strong contender for my favorite game on any platform. Of all the games I’ve played this year–and the list is very long–ranging from BF2 [...]
Another one bites the dust
07Sep06Back in February, my first Xbox 360 stopped reading discs properly, but five short days later and I was back in business. Keen-eyed readers might remember that I mentioned I was having some crashes in Dead Rising a few days ago. Tonight, the other shoe dropped, and the 360 totally conked out. Luckily, I [...]
Labor Day Weekend 2006
06Sep06After the ball game on Saturday, we snuck up to my parent’s farm for a few hours. While there, we tooled around on four-wheelers to see what they’ve been up to, and also spend a little time with the water balloon bazooka. I wish I’d had the presence of mind to shoot a little video, [...]
The war against chapstick
06Sep06 Two things of interest happened to me on Monday on my trip back from Tennessee to San Francisco. The TSA stole my chapstick, and I made my best ever speed run through the Hartsfield-Atlanta Airport.
Security in the beautiful and toothless Tri-Cities Regional Airport was surprisingly thorough. As I was boarding the flight, my carry-on was [...]
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