Moving Pixels Podcast: The Undead Invade New Austin

Some thoughts on Undead Nightmare from Tom, Nick, Rick, and myself:

Moving Pixels Podcast: The Undead Invade New Austin

The Best Flash Games of 2010

Tired. Exhausted. End of semester. Trying to get thesis proposals from students. Reduced to writing... lists.

The Best Flash Games of 2010

Fallout, the “To Do” List Simulator

Kind of a follow up to "Fallout: The Scrounging Simulator", this week's post concerns the sort of work that sidequests in Fallout: New Vegas entail.

Fallout, the “To Do” List Simulator

Moving Pixels Podcast: Role Playing Elements in Other Video Games

Hey, you got your RPG in my FPS.

Moving Pixels Podcast: Role Playing Elements in Other Video Games

Review of Rock Band 3

Guitar Hero 5 was better than The Beatles, but Rock Band 3 is better than Warriors of Rock.

Review of Rock Band 3

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Treyarch Attempts to "Modernize" Warfare

Maybe this is more of a review than an essay? I don't know. I categorized it as a review rather than as a blog entry this week.

Basically, it's a discussion of the single player campaign of the newest Call of Duty release, Black Ops. Mostly I do some comparison between Treyarch's approach to storytelling as opposed to that of Infinity Ward. While I realize that Modern Warfare 2's storytelling was not that well receive by the critical community, I still find myself more interested in what Infinity Ward does with the medium than Treyarch.

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Treyarch Attempts to "Modernize" Warfare

Moving Pixels Podcast: The Minecraft Experience

We recorded this episode quite a while back (around the same time that I wrote a post called "I Don't Know How to Play", which also concerned Minecraft). In retrospect, it was pretty bad pool to participate in this discussion only having played the browser version of the game, but I still think that just that experience was interesting in it own ways.

Anyhow, a bit more discussion of what it means to play generally and to play Minecraft itself:

Moving Pixels Podcast: The Minecraft Experience