Sha na-na nah! Na-na-na na-nah!
Hey! Here's my first personal essay on this site that I don't hate! The woman in this story was actually super nice, and so was her daughter. They both seemed cooler than cool, but I'm so sick of having this same conversation that I had to write something about it, and they were, unfortunately, the most recent offenders. Sorry! Wrong place at the wrong time, dudettes.
10 April 2012
09 April 2012
Women and Men
You, Me, and the Cubes is available for 200 Club Nintendo FunBuxx this month in America. It's an excellent way to spend your fun money, but I'd recommend it even if you have to pay actual legal currency.
My review doesn't go into much detail about the music or the multiplayer mode, but rest assured, every part of You, Me, and the Cubes is just as wonderfully and woefully discomfiting as what I've described.
I also neglected to mention the game's creator, Kenji Eno, although knowing he made it undoubtedly influenced my conviction that You, Me, and the Cubes is about more than tipping boxes in space. I found a fascinating ten-page interview Shane Bettenhausen and James Mielke conducted with Eno prior to this game's release while preparing this critique, and I highly recommend reading the whole article, even if you've never heard of Kenji Eno before.
My review doesn't go into much detail about the music or the multiplayer mode, but rest assured, every part of You, Me, and the Cubes is just as wonderfully and woefully discomfiting as what I've described.
I also neglected to mention the game's creator, Kenji Eno, although knowing he made it undoubtedly influenced my conviction that You, Me, and the Cubes is about more than tipping boxes in space. I found a fascinating ten-page interview Shane Bettenhausen and James Mielke conducted with Eno prior to this game's release while preparing this critique, and I highly recommend reading the whole article, even if you've never heard of Kenji Eno before.
08 April 2012
Hopping Down the Yoshi Trail
Happy Easter, one and all!
Today's article was inspired by a 1993 Mario Paint-themed Easter egg decorating kit that own, despite the current year being 2012. Remember the days when a drawing application could get a big marketing blitz? I wonder if I still have my Mario Paint brushes (free in select boxes of Kellogg's cereals). Of course, there's a reason those days ended. What is Mario Paint's identity? Are kids going to paint the flyswatter from the minigame on their Easter eggs? That must be why Paas gave up halfway through and turned this into a Zelda "Egg-Quest."
From Agahnim and all of us at Hot Lavy, have a safe and wonderful Easter!
Today's article was inspired by a 1993 Mario Paint-themed Easter egg decorating kit that own, despite the current year being 2012. Remember the days when a drawing application could get a big marketing blitz? I wonder if I still have my Mario Paint brushes (free in select boxes of Kellogg's cereals). Of course, there's a reason those days ended. What is Mario Paint's identity? Are kids going to paint the flyswatter from the minigame on their Easter eggs? That must be why Paas gave up halfway through and turned this into a Zelda "Egg-Quest."
From Agahnim and all of us at Hot Lavy, have a safe and wonderful Easter!
07 April 2012
Saturday Supplemental - Everything Free in America
Dragon Quest x Google Maps: 8-bit Google Maps for NES!
If you have an Internet connection, and I'm betting you do, there's a good chance you've already seen Google's 2012 April Fool's Day gag. While the "Quest" maps are no longer active, this video is certainly worth your time if you missed it last weekend.
Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’: Best Games of 2011
This is the best kind of HAWP episode - fast, funny, and far more insightful than a silly sketch about two people arguing over video games has any right to be. I'm going to be quoting Ash's line from the end of this one for a long time. (Bonus: The first new HAWPcast in months.)
Gridiron Solitaire!
Bill Harris announces his first game, a combination solitaire/football game. As I've said before on this very site, football is man's most boring creation, but after years of reading Bill's writing about both life and games, I can't wait to see the fruits of this passion project. Plus, it was inspired solitaire/golf hybrid Fairway Solitaire, which managed to be great despite its golf roots.
MolyJam Game Archive System
A depository of over 300 games made at last weekend's "What Would Molydeux?" gamejam. I haven't even begun to sort through these, but expect to hear more about this in an upcoming Sunday Free Game.
Electronic Arts named worst company in America, reacts to news
That headline isn't referring to video game companies. That's out of all companies in America. I'm glad to see The Consumerist challenging EA, but America's worst company? Are they kidding?
Grasshopper's Suda on Lollipop Chainsaw and the new media landscape
More questionable statements about the landscape of American business, but this time they're coming from Suda51, and that guy is the best.
Parenting Is Not an Escort Mission
Joel Goodwin lambastes game developers for the lazy way parenting is depicted in games, and offers alternatives.
If you have an Internet connection, and I'm betting you do, there's a good chance you've already seen Google's 2012 April Fool's Day gag. While the "Quest" maps are no longer active, this video is certainly worth your time if you missed it last weekend.
Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’: Best Games of 2011
This is the best kind of HAWP episode - fast, funny, and far more insightful than a silly sketch about two people arguing over video games has any right to be. I'm going to be quoting Ash's line from the end of this one for a long time. (Bonus: The first new HAWPcast in months.)
Gridiron Solitaire!
Bill Harris announces his first game, a combination solitaire/football game. As I've said before on this very site, football is man's most boring creation, but after years of reading Bill's writing about both life and games, I can't wait to see the fruits of this passion project. Plus, it was inspired solitaire/golf hybrid Fairway Solitaire, which managed to be great despite its golf roots.
MolyJam Game Archive System
A depository of over 300 games made at last weekend's "What Would Molydeux?" gamejam. I haven't even begun to sort through these, but expect to hear more about this in an upcoming Sunday Free Game.
Electronic Arts named worst company in America, reacts to news
That headline isn't referring to video game companies. That's out of all companies in America. I'm glad to see The Consumerist challenging EA, but America's worst company? Are they kidding?
Grasshopper's Suda on Lollipop Chainsaw and the new media landscape
More questionable statements about the landscape of American business, but this time they're coming from Suda51, and that guy is the best.
Parenting Is Not an Escort Mission
Joel Goodwin lambastes game developers for the lazy way parenting is depicted in games, and offers alternatives.
For a small fee in America.
06 April 2012
Sunday Free Game - Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment!
In belated celebration of April Fool's Day, we'll take a look at a free game which makes a fool of its player each Sunday this month, except for this week, where we'll pretend that Friday is Sunday and Sunday is Friday. Cool? Okay.
Like each and every one of the Greek gods, this game is a jerk. Pick a figure from Greek mythology, suffer his punishment, curse the gods, repeat. I love it.
Like each and every one of the Greek gods, this game is a jerk. Pick a figure from Greek mythology, suffer his punishment, curse the gods, repeat. I love it.
05 April 2012
The Final Chapter
Pour some out for your bros. We've lost two video game shows in the last week.
I'm assuming that The Tester is over forever, but I make the same assumption every year, and it keeps coming back. That show is more resilient than Jason Voorhees.
I'm assuming that The Tester is over forever, but I make the same assumption every year, and it keeps coming back. That show is more resilient than Jason Voorhees.
04 April 2012
Suffer for Fashion
It's all very confusing, but at least talking about fashion affords me opportunities to reference both The Kinks and Of Montreal.
Also, big thanks to GoNintendo for linking to yesterday's article!
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