So. I mentioned I have been playing Magic The Gathering again on the occasional Saturday night. My cards are old. I think the last set or booster pack I bought was around the Exodus era circa 1998. Don’t get me wrong, while it’s been...
I never should have opened this god damned game. Seriously. So, I decide to buy a horse. Because I’m tired of running everywhere. And walking. Because, you know, I’m carrying 4 times the limit on what I can actually carry. Which...
A long time ago, I bought Skyrim. That wasn’t the mistake. Probably. I bought Skyrim when it first came out. I did not open it. Until Friday night. That was (probably) the mistake. At the time I bought Skyrim, there were a lot of things going on...
I recently came across the story about someone at Microsoft quitting or being asked to quit or being asked to simply leave (jury’s still out on which is which) over comments made on Twitter. This, of course, caught my eye. Delving deeper...
Watching Tabletop on Geek and Sundry today, I find myself missing tabletop gaming. Haven’t done that in ages. At least since I left California back in ’99. My friends and I would play a lot of different games. Most popular were: 1)...
With a very few exceptions, I am not a fan of ‘racing’ games. Especially racing games that try to be as realistic as possible, give you control over every aspect of your car, and pay for upgrades for the smallest thing all the way up...
So, for my birthday last week, I went ahead and bought Batman: Arkham City. Having loved the original game, Batman: Arkham Asylum, I figured it would be a no brainer that I would love the sequel – and for the most part that’s been...
I said I’d do it, I warned you – you didn’t listen, did you? Well, now it’s TOO LATE! THE RETURN OF THE PODCAST IS HERE! Episode 9 of the All Things From My Brain Podcast is here. In this weeks massive, DOUBLE SIZED...
On the list of things that can distract one from writing the next great American novel comes Cartoon Wars: Gunner. A HUGE fan of the original Cartoon Wars game (I wrote something up on that game last year), I was really psyched when I saw that...
I grew up in a mostly Catholic family. I say ‘mostly’ because we were Catholic, but we didn’t really go to church much. Well, I went to church – I had to because it was right there at school and all. Through the 8th...
Well. As you may or may not have figured out by now, I am most definitely an Apple head. I’ve got 2 iMacs at home and an iPhone in my pocket and I love to discover new games and apps to play with AND I love to share those finds with the...
Episode #5: All Things from My Brain In the fifth episode of the All Things From My Brain podcast, I talk about the Palm Pre losing it’s iTunes sync functionality, how India plans to issue biometric ID cards to its 1.2 BILLION citizens, how...
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