Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
I Was Always Being Boring
Recently an old and dear friend told me, or wrote me, specifically, and mentioned that she was experiencing boredom and thus, must probably be a boring person, since it is her belief that only boring people get bored.
At first I was inclined to agree with her until I realized that I [...]
Bad News From America
Got an e-mail from my agent saying that Ace has decided to pass on The Pale Summer. The word from my agent is “they found the exotic setting problematic for their market.” I take that to mean the fact that it starts in Singapore, goes to Rome, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan and other [...]
Yet Another Quiet Sunday
In which the cats sleep on the bed, even though they know they shouldn’t, but they look so damn cute together sleeping there that it’s hard to kick them out, movies were returned, dinner was had a German restaurant, and it was decided that while Digital Devil Saga 2 [...]
Symphony At The Bug-Eyes
Take a look at this:
It’s called the Esplanade, the official Singapore answer to the Sydney Opera House in that it’s supposed to be the national center for the performance of the arts. Every time I look at it, I think that these are the compound eyes of some huge mecha-dragonfly sleeping [...]
Company Dinners
I have decided that this really isn’t my thing.
The crew over at GameAxis invited the freelancers/part-timers to attend a dinner for the staff. I showed up but really didn’t show much interest in socializing with anyone I didn’t already know, and the high-light of the evening was when it turned out someone had brought [...]
I Am Not An Artist
But then I suspect most artists are rather lousy artists as well when it comes to the less savoury element of being successful; dealing with opening night at the gallery.
Yesterday and acquaintance of the Wife and I had her gallery opening. We met her and her husband when they were newly [...]
Apparently Someone Likes It
Out of curiosity I went scrounging around on the ‘net to see whether there had been any comment at all on that television show I wrote a few months back. It turns out that there’s an archived review from Valentine’s Day here.
I’m of two minds on the whole thing because [...]
My Job Is A Scam
Granted, it’s part time work, but still… You know there’s something seriously wrong when you spend the most part of your work-day plugged into Star Wars: Empire At War and this… is your job.
Now I guess I’ll go write about it more and then finally plug myself into the Fantastic [...]
Australia Just Says “No”
To videogames about graffiti.
I’m still amazed that this even happened. Usually it’s countries like Oz, America and Canada that lead the pack with an easy-going, tolerant, fairly liberal attitude, while Singapore acts like a prudish stick in the mud.
This time around, Singapore is allowing a game, called Mark Ecko’s Getting [...]