Acid for Blood

Slashdot have their April Fool’s Day “joke” up on the site. Can we all take a guess as to what sort of societal stereotypes they are reinforcing here? Not intelligent, not subtle, not funny:

Think Geek’s April Fool’s thing is nice, but also falls flat on the cleverness scale:

The fake BBC news story of last year […]

This information will be useful for anyone looking to replace their original Nintendo DS unit with the Nintendo DS Lite in the future.
According to the FAQ on the Nintendo WiFi site:
Q: What happens when I share Wi-Fi games with a friend for use on another Nintendo DS?
A: The Nintendo WFC ID and the […]

Darwinia is a game about sentient, evolving life forms (Darwinians) living inside a computer. Their home is threatened by a computer virus, and the player’s task is to destroy the virus and save the Darwinians. Darwinia was the darling of the Independent Games Festival at the Game Developers Conference last week, winning three awards for […]

The internet has become “that thing to talk about Oblivion with”* and people will likely continue buzzing about it for a few weeks (or months). I don’t have The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. For various reasons, I’m probably not going to buy it. I have never played most of those other supposedly “must play” games […]

On the flight out of San Jose on Saturday, I struck up a conversation with the guy sitting next to me on the plane. He had his PSP and he was playing a Splinter Cell Siphon Filter game that he downloaded at the Sony booth at the GDC. We talked about games, what he does […]

Last night, one of my guildmates suggested that I stop going to my table-top Dungeons & Dragons games every single week so I had more time to quest with him regularly in Guild Wars. Unlike my D&D party, he can group with Henchmen and other players. My DM will generally not use PCs as NPCs […]

This Pokemon Nintendo DS stylus certainly is a Pocket Monster. Slightly NSFW, me thinks.
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Some pictures I took at the Game Developers Conference 2006. Not nearly as many I would have liked to have snapped. Should have been better about that.
Considering whether to put up all my pictures of myself and other Conference Associates. I have nearly 70 pictures from GDC total, and more than half that number […]

The final day was a bit of a blur, but these are the most memorable aspects of the day. Highlights from 24th March:

“A New Vision for Interactive Stories” — Presented by Ernest Adams. Got to stay for about half of the session because I was scheuduled to work, but what I was able to stay […]

Highlights of 23rd March:

Richard Garriott — “Designing Tabula Rasa: Lessons From the World of MMOs” — Only got to stay for 30 minutes because I was working. A very candid and open session about the process of designing Tabula Rasa, including mistakes the team made, and lessons learned.
Will Wright keynote — “What’s Next in Design” […]