Review: Dark Castle (MacOS)

~3 min read

Do you hate the comforts of modern platform gaming? Long for a time before Jill of the Jungle and Commander Keen showed us how smooth and responsive a PC game can be? Do you enjoy attempting to emulate versions of...

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Review: Red Dead Redemption

~2 min read
Tagged: games ps3 review

Red Dead Redemption (RDR) is a brilliant game. While not without some flaws, it’s still an incredibly engaging and well put together story. It’s got the classic open world GTA design, fun “on rails” gun design, deeply flawed characters, and...

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Simplify

~1 min read
Tagged: fun personal

Life is complicated. Can I say 1000 words with a photo? What if I put words in the photo? Mind blown, I know. At any rate, in the ongoing effort to simplify my life (one blog post at a time) I decided to trim down the old wardrobe to just the best and brightest.

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Review: Shovel Knight

~2 min read
Tagged: games pc retro review

Shovel Knight is a side-scrolling action adventure that encapsulates everything that was good about the Nintendo generation of action-adventure games. From Zelda 2 to Ducktales to Adventure Island, you’ll be constantly reminded of the beauty of game mechanics which originated...

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5 Minute Hacks: The Game Frame

~2 min read

So I finally got tired of seeing the piles of digital picture frames littering the thrift stores and picked one up. The resolution is terrible, and it’s only got 512mb of storage capacity. Still, that got me thinking. I’d like to re-play more classic games (which generally had terrible resolution), but with so little time it’s becoming a rarity. Why not put game playthroughs on the picture frame? And so I did.

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