This was the best April 1 gag by far. I wonder who approached whom to make this happen. It’s kind of funny. The joke, that is. But more to the point, the clip contains some mindfuckingly spectacular Metal Gear Solid 4 gameplay that sort of overshadows the funny, in the end. My thought process went [...]

(I’m going to be trying these big compilation posts for awhile, see if it works better. If you’d rather I did the old format, by all means, hurl fruit in the comments section, kthx.) Ah, but these minor delays do tend to pile up, don’t they. I looked upon that little calendar on the right [...]

GOOD THINGS 1. Flying and Stabbing. As we all know, any good ninj’ing requires both a flying and stabbing component. These are crucial; the actions of hurtling through the air with reckless abandon as well as the piercing of infidels/underlings/henchpersons with a wide variety of skewering implements form the cornerstone of any stealth action game. [...]

Now here is something you practically never see these days – some big new-gen games that actually completed development on time. It’s a momentous occasion. I don’t know why humans are so bad, so perpetually bad at estimating the timeframes for these things. I’ve been in the middle of (much smaller) software projects that fell [...]