Remember that South Park episode covering Wal-mart? Remember who they targeted as the real problem? Ah yes, it’s not me. It’s not the consumer. It was that darned mirror. Whatever your stance on the political aspect of economics, there’s no question that the principles of laissez-faire capitalism apply most easily to entertainment-focused media:...

For years, I’ve been making the mistake of equating small, short games with “casual” games. After having spent a little too much time with titles in Humble Indie Bundle 3 (and, actually, HIB2 as well), I see the error of my ways. A casual game is something like BEJEWELED or DINER DASH. Quick button-pressing, basic cognitive exercise, etc. But a...

Creators of digitally distributed games have enjoyed a financially and creatively successful couple of months. One-man developer Markus “Notch” Persson has siphoned millions of euros from his growing army of MINECRAFT acolytes (I’m one of them), and the moody 2-D platformer LIMBO managed a healthy profit this summer on the Xbox Live Marketplace, which...

Steam’s “Perils of Summer” sale has messed up my life. Here I was, ready to hide out and squirrel away some money for a mid-July bachelor party in Austin, Texas, when the digital download service announces that it will be slashing prices on PC games through July 4. Some of the discounts have been ridiculous. For 24 hours Sunday and Monday, you...

As stated on our most recent episode of Jurassic Radio, I downloaded this surprisingly cheap PSN title because it was being touted for musical involvement from Nobuo Uematsu. When I first downloaded it, I didn’t care what the content of the game was, I just wanted to hear something different from Uematsu. Turns out, the music was actually synth-arranged J.S....

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: CALL OF PRIPYAT, the most recent entry in the Stalker franchise was released last Friday, but only on Amazon. The earliest delivery date would have been Wednesday, but the end-times snow storm made that date less likely. So in my despondency, I put off the purchase. I’m glad I did. Call of Pripyat came out on Steam a week after the official...