The Wrong Way to Do a Demo

By Slunecka • Jul 25th, 2010 • Category: Reviews

God damn it video game developers, stop making game demos that are multiplayer only.
Let me preface the following rant by saying that I have nothing against games which are multi-player only, games which are multiplayer-centric or even games that just tack on a weak single player mode so they can say they had one.  What [...]



Video Game Movies Suck: Empirically

By Slunecka • Jul 10th, 2010 • Category: Friends of the Sprocket, Reviews

Do video game movies objectively suck? Certainly I can cough up a half dozen examples for you, but I prefer a little objectivity. Video games, after all, are just another form of adaptation. We’ve been adapting books into movies for about a hundred years now. We’ve been making movies out of [...]



Four Incredible Zombie Games

By Slunecka • Jun 24th, 2010 • Category: Friends of the Sprocket, Reviews

I love me some zombie games.  Ironically I’m not actually that huge into zombie-based horror movies, though.  It’s not like I don’t like them, I just don’t actively seek them out.  I like the same zombie movies that everyone likes:  Army of Darkness, 28 Days Later, Dead Alive, etc…  But in a video game, a [...]



Hire this guy, Warner Brothers

By Slunecka • Jun 16th, 2010 • Category: Friends of the Sprocket

Hi, I’m Matt.  Yeah, another Matt.  I’m not sure who keeps hiring all these guys named Matt, but I promise I’ll have a chat with Management about that.  In the meantime let me distract you from awkward introductions with this:

Wasn’t that awesome?  It’s been burning its way across the internet for a few days now.  [...]