Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
Back To The Last Generation
Sunday was largely spent revisiting another one of those PS2 games I’d been meaning to play for a while but hadn’t, though a copy of the game was dutifully purchased and put on the “back-log.” That time is now, I guess, and Odin Sphere is getting some serious spin-time in the PS3.
It has the [...]
Finally
< ![CDATA[That was a damn hard game, but Bionic Commando: Rearmed has finally been beaten after numerous ass-kickings received after dinner. Pictured here from the original game is the final boss, who also remains the final boss in the new version but is named “The Leader.” Yes, that is who you think it is, [...]
Boo For Delays
Local pride was denied today when Moving Pictures, the Rush album scheduled to go on sale this week on Rock Band was postponed due to “technical difficulties.” The most popular theory as to why this has happened is because the song YYZ
is an instrumental, and perhaps Harmonix, the developers, failed to completely take into account [...]
And Done
Finished Siren: Blood Curse today. All in all, it takes away the bad after taste that Condemned 2: Bloodshot left behind. Decent length for the game, over 12 hours, genuine scares (really, REALLY intense ones at times) and a much more satisfying ending although maddeningly complex and obscure in that [...]
Quiet Monday
< ![CDATA[Aside from writing a little of comic, not much else going on. I messed around some more with the demo for that upcoming new Star Wars game, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, or, as I like to think of it, “STFU.”
It’s not a bad game. Since Star Wars games are historically quite horrible, the [...]
The New Digs
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Last night I found in my e-mail in-box an invitation to join the Home Beta. Home is essentially a free “Second Life” (read that, 3D chatroom, or socialware, if you prefer) service that will be releasing to all PS3 owners before the end of the year. So far it looks good, but as a [...]
Fixed With New Digs
Hopefully this won’t turn into a regular event of migrating from blog to blog.
Re-installation
The PC is slowly getting back up to speed after being replaced. This time it wasn’t anything quite as catastrophic as the hard disk suddenly dying. It was more like the gradual decay of the machine, specifically its power supply unit. For the last couple of weeks it’s been getting harder and [...]
Nerdgasm Of Epic Proportions
The Yin-Yang of nerd-dom is now complete. The first side was done online back in 2003. Now, the final side is sure to make the pants of Trekkies the world over explode with… enthusiasm now that their fantasies are about to come true.
Awards & Networking
Today we went down to the Toronto Reference Library to take in the 4th annual Doug Wright Awards, which is basically a new award given out to Canadian artists and cartoonists. The inductee into the “Giants of the North” hall o’ fame was Lynn Johnston, better known for her enduring news strip [...]