Quick OMGPOPQUIZZZ!!! You’re creating a registration form, and you’d like to know if your registrant has a PENIS or a VAGINA. Do you ask for the registrant’s GENDER, or do you ask for his or her SEX? Choose wisely. The correct answer is “SEX”. It annoys me to no end to see “GENDER” on a [...] Keep Reading

i took some time out of my schedule to hit X09, Microsoft’s annual holiday preview event for the Xbox 360 and related platforms. This is the nth year i’ve attended as a journalist, although truth be told my game journalism days ended when i woke up to the fact that i couldn’t make an [...] Keep Reading

i’m taking Two by Two from the Untold Entertainment library to see how various online monetization methods for Flash games pan out. Part 4: Newgrounds Newgrounds is an American Flash Portal created by the people, for the people … and by “people”, i mean mostly adolescent boys and similarly-minded men who revel in exploitative content created in [...] Keep Reading

Thank God we have The Onion to shout out that the Emperors of excessivelly violent video games have no clothes: Hot New Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People Point-Blank In The Face No, your game does not have a “good story” (note the distinct jab at the stylistic but vapid Max Payne series). This takes me [...] Keep Reading