Recent content by Brian Easton

World of Germcraft "When Corrupted Blood ran rampant, its patterns of diffusion resembled those of real-life diseases, and scientists took interest. Not only did the disease spread to other users, but there were carriers who, both knowingly and unknowingly, were able to take the malady across...

Basically, the more things change the more they stay the same. Bungie will retain rights to new IP but Microsoft will still publish their games, and they will continue to develop for the 360.

A 90% which was about the same as 11 other media outlets. Since I don't know when this conversation happened it's hard to discern whether or not the reviewer already had an idea of what the socre was going to be. Given the other reviews, it doesn't look like there was anything shady going on.

I'm just going to go ahead and say it, BioShock is not an FPSRPG, it's just a shooter.

You still have a VCR? I mean I have a Saturn and an NES, but a VCR?

AGiES001 here. I don't play as much on live as I should. But I suppose the aforementioned reasons are what stop me.

I'm all for the beer + glass = drink equation. If I have to have something mixed (which generally means the beer selection is piss-poor) then I'll go with a gin and tonic. If I'm using my own gin then it's close to a 1/3 gin to tonic ratio. Should be served on the rocks with a slice of lime.

My brother (who just happens to have contributed to The Escapist as well) sent this in to Kotaku [http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/zelda/mom-proves-lovehate-with-zelda-quilt-196158.php] for me, but I thought I'd share it with you guys myself. I got my mom to make me a blog...

I'm not sure it's fair to compare the races in fantasy games like World of Warcraft and D&D to real world race. In fantasy games the term race represents what seem to be different species or genus that have certain advantages or disadvantages when compared to the other "races." In the real world...

I'm going to have to say that Neopets is more of a collection game. The social interaction is rather minimal unless you join a guild and still it's nothing like Myspace or other social networks.

You've Come a Long Way, Game Boy Though the NES was their breakthrough product, Nintendo's biggest successes have come with the Game Boy line of portables. Brian Easton gives us the history of this venerable hardware line, including the Nintendo DS. Permalink

One Fateful Semester As a hobby, gaming isn't much more addictive than others, though gamers take more pleasure in the obsession. Sometimes this can be a bad thing. Brian Easton asks: Are you doing it for the pleasure of the game, or the distaste of something else? Permalink