Recent content by sstadnicki

Nobody has mentioned Neko Case's solo work yet? I'm legitimately boggled. Fox Confessor Brings The Flood is hands-down my favorite album of the last decade. A few others that nobody's mentioned yet: Shonen Knife have been making joyously doofy, fun music for the last 20+ years now. Cibo...

I'm pretty sure it wasn't 'originally' a sister company of EA, given that the Sega name predates EA itself (again, see: Star Trek Arcade)...

80%; it seemed an easier quiz than average (pun not intended). I have to admit, though, I was rooting for some really obscure Sega arcade stuff; how many people know, for instance, that Sega did the original Star Trek arcade game?

Not that anyone is still reading this after 8 pages of iPhone hate, but. :( While I think gameplay-wise there's a much greater diversity across the top iDevice games than there is on most other platforms, the market does seem to have settled on a single (visual) style ('soft cartoony') that...

This gets mentioned almost as an aside about halfway into the article and then taken for granted from there (as the article veers into a discussion of how more games need demos), but not much effort is really spent arguing the point, and I'm still left thoroughly unconvinced about this core...

I'm amazed no one has mentioned Okami yet. 30 hours' worth of beautiful, witty, charming Japanese mythology, and... wait, I'm actually a space alien? What?? Not to mention one of the least *interesting* final bosses ever. The fight was fine, don't get me wrong, but the visual design was just...