Recent content by jdhays

Well, Norman did walk past little Nida, who dropped her necklace into Lake Everstill. No killing involved. Just a little swimming and it's usually right under the dock. But it's probably best not to mention it to him now.

Why would videogames want to be Art? Art is paint sploches on a canvas that almost got thrown out by the cleaning crew. Art is a painting of the Madonna with elephant dung for a breast designed to generate controversy and free PR. Art is a bent mass of metal pipes in from of town hall that...

When I started playing WoW in 2005 there wasn't much pressure to reach the level cap. There were only a couple of raids available. So I had 60 levels of content to play with and I was pretty happy with all of it. Solo, grouping, PvP, exploring, gathering and crafting never feel like a grind...

I wasn't suggesting that the young lady was doing anything illicit. Quite the contrary. She looks like an ad for Jolly Sailor Pipe Tobacco. In fact, if she was smoking something else, it might take the curse off of it. Also, in that screenshot, it looks like she has a bit of Captain Morgan...

Lulzy really seems to be enjoying that pipe. You know, if this were a movie, enjoying a good smoke like that would push the G-rated violence, murder, and arson to a R-rating.

This is what turned me off EVE Online. I spent the weekend doing the easy tutorial quest line. Then I was slaughtered because I talked to the wrong NPC. He sent me on a pirate killing quest in a zone levels above me. Nothing at the time indicated I was in over my head. If there was, I didn't...

I wonder how much pressure investors put on game publishers for DRM. If you told a prospective investor that you were going to spend millions of dollars on a game that anyone could easily steal, wouldn't they invest their money elsewhere? The average person is not going to view piracy as the...

I like the characters and the voice acting but each episode seems a little light. Out of a five minute video, 20% of it is opening and ending credits. I wouldn't want you to be another rant fest like Zero Punctuation or Escape to the Movies. But those guys, along with Unskippable and Loading...