Acid for Blood

The Exanimus forums are still down, however there is new activity on the website this week in the form of an Emergency Alert System notification from the Department of National Defense (DND — LOL). According to the Exanimus Wiki, the following statement appeared on 24th June:
The Department of National Defense (DND) has issued the following […]

One of my pet peeves of gaming culture (and I guess culture in general, since I’ve heard non-gamers use the word this way) is how gamers use the word ‘rape’. I recently read a blog post which explains that:
To some people rape is just four letters put together to make a monosyllabic sound… To others […]

I’ve been quite busy over the past week. I have some new responsibilities at work, a new flatmate (my generally non-gaming brother), and a friend is visiting for a spell. All activities related to these have supplanted blogging, and to some extent, keeping up with gaming news and gaming. As usual, I do try to […]

Chris Kohler has an excellent article explaining his understanding of types of gamers and what this means for the ‘console war’:
Before blue oceans and innovators’ dilemmas, the “casual gamer” was the guy who played Xbox but wasn’t a game nerd. He’ll play Halo with his buddies for hours. But the new definition of “casual gamer” […]

A friend gave me a copy of the Fallout collection, which includes Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. I’ve been reading all the buzz about Fallout 3, and since I haven’t played any of the Fallout games, I’m obviously missing just what the big deal is. Apparently Fallout 3 is scheduled for an Autumn 2008 […]

After far too long, I finally have my computer running again. The original problem has not been fixed. When I was trying to determine what was wrong, I inadvertently broke something else. Me = n00b. I fixed the “something else” so Angseth is at least working on the surface. Everything appears normal, but I […]

The Gaming Bitch writes about women and games (emphasis mine):
Women identify themselves as Girl Gamers and are proud of the moniker. They put up with the images in games, because they really like to game. Here’s the thing though, women are at a disadvantage in the world of computer games, and no matter what, a […]

Oh. My. Goodness. I’ve never played the Onimusha games, but I really like Takeshi Kaneshiro. The main character, Samanosuke Akechi, was modeled after Kaneshiro, because Takeshi Kaneshiro is really hot. Okay, I made that second part up, but it’s true.
I first became aware of Takeshi Kaneshiro from his role in the 1994 Hong King film, […]

I’ve been following the development of the zombie massively-multiplayer online game, Exanimus, for over a year now. They have been in pre-production, so there are few details. The forums, however, had some pretty active hardcore zombie fans speculating on this game. Some of the game design features that have been discussed on the forums included:

Permadeath: […]