Once upon a time, I used to be able to chart my life through which video games I was playing. Of course, I could also chart it with the array of geek hobbies I had as well, but video games
RETROSPECTIVE: Final Fantasy VII
I realize that I spent a rather large amount of virtual space bemoaning the decline of the Japanese RPG and highlighting all the ways the genre is not a game at all, but, as I implied in that article, I
RETROSPECTIVE: Pirates! Gold
Long before Pirates of the Caribbean tapped into our collective pirate souls, there was a little game called Sid Meier’s Pirates!. Originally released in 1987 for the Commodore 64, the game was ported to eight different platforms over the ensuing
Krynn
During the long, lonely summers of my childhood before I learned the secret to making friends and influencing people, I used to plan my weeks around the books I would read. Barnes & Noble stores weren’t yet ubiquitous, and oddly,
Video Game Music: Remixed, Reloaded, Redux
Once upon a time, five or six years ago, one of the websites I checked every day for updates was not a news site, a game review site, or a web comic but a web site dedicated to video game