Recent content by Salvius

A few disjointed thoughts/responses: Oh, it goes way beyond that. This whole discussion is reiterating arguments that have basically been made about literally every new artistic medium in history. Films and comic books (and now videogames) are just the most recent examples: I can remember a...

You know, I'm old enough to remember a time when a new release movie on home video was $79.95 (or more). In fact, a quick googling shows that the first movie to be deliberately priced for consumer purchase (rather than selling to, yes, rental stores) was $39.95 in 1983 (Star Trek II: The Wrath...

You want dark comedy? Let me introduce you to Little Murders.

IANAL, but my guess is that the theory behind asking for Gears of War profits would be that SK paid Epic for development & support of the Unreal engine, but then Epic instead used that money to fund development of features that they withheld from SK and used in Gears of War.

I got a slanket [http://www.theslanket.com/] for Christmas a couple of years ago, and I love it. Think of it as a nice, warm blanket, but with the sleeves giving it an extra level along the "how warm do I want to be?" gradient. You use it just like you would any other blanket, except that if you...

Things I'd like to see in computer RPGs: Bunnies & Burrows [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnies_&_Burrows] Caveman, wild/weird west, and steampunk are all good suggestions. A really well done cyberpunk RPG would also be welcome. Elric Lankhmar Discworld as a MMORPG. The trouble there...

Grim Fandango is the closest thing to Literature that has ever been produced in the videogame medium (Note: I have not yet played Bioshock, which by all accounts may also be in the same neighborhood). For example, note that in the opening cinematic, Manny lays out the travel options to his...

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." (Terry Pratchett) "Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well, he eats you." (The Big Lebowski) "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the...

Going really, *really* old school for a moment... Two words: "Babel fish"

Jack Thompson could not be any more ridiculous if he suddenly started wearing a big red rubber nose and clown shoes. I just wish all the news media outlets would realize this, and quit giving him air time.