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Sarcastic Gamer Wii Fit Parody

Mike Corey — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:36:59 +0000

The Wii Fit looks great with anything from IKEA.

Echochrome is an exercise in frustration

Mike Corey — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:18:34 +0000

So everyone knocks adventure games because you have to play them in a way the developer would have intended. You have a problem and a finite set of inventory items combine them with the environment and you get a solution. Echochrome takes the frustration of an adventure game but puts it in puzzle format. You’re still progressing through the game with the perspective of the designer, but here its simply moving a camera. Cool in theory, but I just spent a good 10 minutes trying to figure out why one of the “mysteries” wasn’t working. I tried to put a hole out of site and it looked perfect. Exactly how the game is supposed to be played. Problem is this. The game didn’t register the fact that there was no longer a hole. Instead the mannequin ceaselessly did an about face and killed himself. Seriously, if you’re going to describe what someone can do then make it apply to every situation, not just the ones the designer saw.

neoGAF on married life

Mike Corey — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:10:29 +0000

neoGAF has an interesting thread on the effects of married life on all evening gaming binges. I mean im sure its not as bad as some people’s lives, but check it out. Its an interesting read confirming the fact that you’ll never get good at COD4.

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Greasemonkey Script for Joystiq.com

Mike Corey — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:32:07 +0000

Just a quick update. I wrote a greasemonkey script to remove ads from joystiq.com. Its very static, but it gets the job done. The script can be found on greasespot.

Amazon selling R4 carts for Nintendo DS

Mike Corey — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:20:25 +0000

While I was searching for a GPS Bluetooth transceiver, I noticed amazon is currently selling the R4. The R4 is essentially a cart to let you download and play roms of “backups” of games you own. (Similar to the EZ Flash V). Basically you go to a torrent, download your game, and put it on the card and viola. I’m suprised amazon of all companies is selling them. They might as well just go all in and start selling mod chips.

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Steam = Everything wrong with DRM

Mike Corey — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:20:15 +0000

Oh well I do beg your pardon Steam. How absurd of me to attempt to play a game I purchased. Please accept my apology for bothering you while you were doing other, much more important things. I’ll try back later when its more convenient for you.

Child’s Play 2007 Starts

Mike Corey — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:13:56 +0000

Just letting all my 3 readers know that Child’s Play 2007 has started. Child’s play is a charity created by Penny Arcade to give video games to children’s hospitals. Contributors can directly contribute by purchasing items on a local children’s hospital’s Amazon.com gift list. This way you can ensure that the children will get good games like “Beautiful Katamari” instead of “Cars” and other games they think they’ll like. They historically have a very low overhead so please contribute and give the kids who really need it video games (instead of buying yourself games just to get out of doing work by saying “well I really should beat halo 3 on Legendary before anything else”)