Shamusyoung.com Website Review

looking for just the good stuff, then you can cherry-pick from the articles below. Enjoy! A videogame that judges its audience, criticizes its genre, and hates its premise. How did this thing get made? My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2013. One of the highest-rated games of all time has some of the least interesting gameplay. Back in 1999, I rode the dot-com bubble. Got rich. Worked hard. Went crazy. Turned poor. It was fun. What did web browsers look like 20 years ago, and what kind of crazy features did they have? An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders. Why is internet news so bad, why do people prefer celebrity fluff, and how could it be made better? A big chunk of the internet went down in October of 2016. What happened? Was it a hack? Crysis 2 has basically the same plot as Half-Life 2. So why is one a clas*ic and the other simply obnoxious and tiresome? Most stories have plot holes. The failure isn't that they exist, it's when you notice them while immersed in the story. The story of me. If you're looking for a picture of what it was like growing up in the seventies, then this is for you. This series explores the troubled history of VR and the strange lawsuit between Zenimax publishing and Facebook. Is it real? Is PC gaming returning to its former glory? Sort of. It's complicated. Just how big IS No Man's Sky? What if you made a map of all of its landmas*? How big would it be? Which would you rather be: A king in the middle ages, or a lower-income laborer in the 21st century? My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2011. WAY back in 2005, I wrote about a D&D campaign I was running. The campaign is still there, in the bottom-most strata of the archives. A screencap comic that poked fun at videogames and the industry. The comic has ended, but there's plenty of archives for you to binge on. Did you anticipate the big plot twist of Batman: Arkham City? Here's all the ways the game hid that secret from you while also rubbing your