Recent content by Pat M.

I was hoping for a grumpy old Japanese man, personally.

Your friends are scrubs. Tell them to level up.

The Language of the Game Ever felt the need to shout "ding!" after a raise or a promotion? Then you're already familiar with the concept of "talking in Game." Pat Miller takes a closer look at how gamers are communicating with each other the best way they can: by mining their favorite games for...

Albert's Arcade The arcade scene in the United States has been slowly dying for years, but one man is trying to revive it - in his garage. Pat Miller speaks with Albert Carmona about Keystone II, the new Mecca for American Street Fighter players. Read Full Article

i was about to answer with something pithy like "only one of those gets you laid", but apparently a lot of sex happens at anime conventions.

Thanks for sharing!

ooh! story time?

Crazy in Love What could possibly convince an otherwise sane 22-year-old woman that she was married to Sonic the Hedgehog? Why do some people feel so much closer to videogame characters than others? Pat Miller examines the darker side of fandom. Read Full Article

just for the record: No. "Roll Canceling" is when you cancel a special move into a roll, getting the roll's invincible frames added to the special move. What I'm talking about is that Hibiki's best move, her qcf+p slash, which is basically the only thing she has to end a combo, is...

who the hell puts hibiki in a cvs2 top five? the fact that she can't use her qcf+p against bison is enough to pull her out of there.

http://tokenminorities.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/suggestions-for-talking-about-race-and-video-games/ and http://tokenminorities.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/the-litmus-test-for-new-racism/ will be interesting to some of y'all in this thread.

i liked the article. i doubt sony would have an easy time setting up a distribution deal with every random shmuck who sells copied PS2 games, though. if anything, i think the anti-piracy pressure comes less from the games industry and more from the governments themselves, because they want to...

dear pegro, glad to see you registered just to post that! you must be a true fpsdoug fan. ...

Boom! Headshot "Like any proud (Filipino) American family, we give thanks that we may eat well, drink well and tear up the local Counter-Strike server. While the older folks gather around the karaoke machine and croon the same '80s pop tunes every year, my middle school-aged cousins cluster...