Recent content by Severus Ape

The Georgia Straight ran a good article along the same lines as this one (no doubt in this one's works consulted) back in January, Vancouver's Video Game Family Tree [http://www.straight.com/article-198534/video-game-family-tree]. They even have a schematic PDF of the family tree...

That's great. I hate to flame, but I can't stand this self-involved logic. You are the sole metric for determining if someone's opinion is worthwhile or not, based entirely on whether or not you have heard of them? Well, a pretty simple Internet search shows that she's a journalist and...

Isn't that really the underlying criterion that's being used to judge hardcore and casual? (Well, if it isn't, I'll assume so for this post.) Casual games do not, on the whole, appeal to the hardcore audience--what appeals to them are competitive adolescent male power fantasies. But that's a...

I think it was mentioned on the Listen UP podcast the other week that there is this idea that we, the few, the proud, the hardcore, have this arrogant attitude that if *we* haven't heard of a game then it doesn't matter; that if *we* don't like it then it's not good. The barbarians are at the...

No doubt Thompson'll become an anti-video game consultant for any group with the selection bias to see him as a martyr. Having him sanctioned professionally is great, and severely sanctioned is wonderful; but as a freelancer he won't be accountable to anyone?I mean, beyond self-respect and...

Your bootleg copy is also anamorphic, isn't it? The originals on the 2006 DVDs, which I did buy, are 4:3 letterboxed. Even if you aren't a huge Star Wars fan, you can still understand why that's kind of a kick in the teeth... So I downloaded the laserdisc versions.