Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
One Of These Days
We’re gonna’ finally get the hang of this “Canadian Portions” thing when eating out. After getting used to the fact that I could actually finish an entire meal in Singapore, coming back to Canada and ordering at restaurants still leaves my mouth hanging open at how much food we’re expected to [...]
Just Another Thursday
Another quiet day in the Annex. We walked down to the nearby gallery to check out the Wife’s contribution, had some food at one of our favorite neighborhood restaurants, and played some videogames.
Slow Wednesday
Only two things to do, play more Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and start on another IGN article.
Nothing But The Gear
Aside from errands in the neighborhood, it was back to collecting “emblems”, the MGS 4 equivalent of achievements, that involves doing bizarre stuff like stabbing 50 people with a syringe, doing 50 hold ups and body searches for goodies, and hiding in a box for an hour…
Monday Of No Real Note
Did laundry, played games. Condemned 2: Bloodshot was finished, and it was a bit disappointing. A perfectly fine game was ruined by a bizarre tangent in the plot that suddenly had you doing incredibly dumb things that bore no consistency with the earlier part of the game. [...]
Saturday On The Streets
What started out just being a run for a carton of milk ended up being a pleasant afternoon on Bloor, a chance to finally try out a Fish n’ Chips place we’d been trying to eat at for over a year, a visit to the art store for the Wife’s supplies, a [...]
Desperation Games
The Wife has been getting the twitches somethin’ awful ever since playing the hell out of the Civilization: Revolution demo and checking the calendar every half hour to see if it’s July 8th yet. In order to try and kill some of that time and make the days go by faster, she was [...]