update: exciting news today!

When I was 16, I started dating the person who would turn out to be my wife. Despite the fact that I didn’t have a license and she did, I would always drive us around in her moms Ford Fusion. I was getting a little silly around a corner on a snowy day, goosing it, the whole deal--and slid directly into a rustic fence…

This is weird. I guess I didn’t do my homework, but I just thought this was going to be another Meat Boy release with some extra stuff. 

“Tomb of Ash claims that Core was in the process of flipping the remake into an Indiana Jones game.”

I’m always intrigued by the way people cover Gaffigan’s specials. His notices are always good, but there’s always the exact same kind of bizarre refrain: “It’s very good, but....” and then there’s some strain of condescension regarding his status as a largely clean comic, or that his material isn’t political or…

This is such a bitter situation. The project sounds like it never had a chance, but then again, a lot of the people interviewed seemed to think that the project wouldn’t have worked—even if they hadn’t been jerked around so much.

I wonder if the Pistons/Bulls last-second shot bias is still in the code...or if another rivalry has an under-the-hood bias.

Probably because it’s the greatest basketball game ever made, right alongside NBA Street Vol. 2.

Hello! So I’ve spoken with several of you before. In fact, Luke Plunkett and former staffer Patrick Klepek were the first people I ever solicited games writing advice to who wrote me back. I had Jason take some questions of mine on Splitscreen once, and even had an email with Stephen’s phone number sent to me once by…

Law of averages, son! A great player will lose matches because of bad teammates and a bad player will occasionally be boosted higher than they should be because of great teammates, but over time, everyone ends up exactly where they belong.

I was youngish when I played The Getaway, but I feel like the blinker thing was always happening too late and I was missing turns.

Yo I’m real excited about Luke Cage, but man, how good is the GZA’s verse on this? I bet I listen to a track on 36 Chambers every day, and I bet I hear something from Liquid Swords each day—or at least get a line stuck in my head. Honest to god unbelievable how much talent can be in one group at the same time.

No kidding. Both of these games are doomed to disappoint, if not enrage some amount of people. Nonetheless I’m eager to see what they both end up being.

I think this game is super divisive generationally in the same way that Minecraft is. If No Man’s Sky isn’t appealing on it’s face to you, then I don’t think you will be coerced. It’s an exploration game at it’s core.

Whatever it means for No Man’s Sky, I want to add that Spore seems like it had a significant amount less commercial appeal than No Man’s Sky has. Maybe I’m wrong about that. Aside from the piracy, I think Spore’s legacy is a playlist of YouTube videos where people show off their genitalia-esque monsters.

It already has the problem of showing too much and yet too little, for way too long. The game is so open-ended that people can’t help but project their very personal thoughts and wants onto it, and it will suffer when it actually appears.

I haven’t heard this, and on the weakest pretense: My good friend told me this record was a huge bummer following The Unseen, so I slept on it. I meant to get around to it, but in the meantime forgot about it. This is on my hard drive, it’s about time I listen to it. I meant to cop that Quasimoto 12" picture disc that…

I’m such a sucker for J Dilla, I could listen to anybody rap over old Dilla beats...forever. Donuts is probably my favorite hip hop record of all time. His uncle just opened up a shop called Dilla’s Donuts in Detroit, but I haven’t made it down there.

If you do a little digging, they put out a follow-up EP to this called Occult Hymn. If I remember correctly, it’s odds and ends, a remix, and maybe one new track. Still kind of neat. I don’t feel like I’ve heard that much out of Danger Mouse in a while, but maybe he’s been under my nose. DOOM is about due for another…

Danger Doom was my first hip hop record proper. I remember seeing it advertised via Adult Swim bumps, and a little while later I saw it at a Best Buy. I was probably 9 or 10. I got roped in by Meatwad and Space Ghost, and came out the other end starting my journey towards being a head. Without this record, hip hop…