Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
Shut Ins
Snow continues, spousal illness continues and so does a bit of virtual skateboarding and trying to defend 19th century Japan from an assault of demons.
Care-Giver Mode
The Wife is a bit flue-sy so it’s time to look out for her in that ham-fisted way that males do when it comes time to be nurturing with no apparent idea on how to do this.
The Wedding
We finally got the actual physical, snail mail wedding invitation from The Tactician. I am both happy and mildly dismayed. Happy because this is a good thing, without a doubt, dismayed because this will be my first wedding to attend in Canada since I got back… and it’s STILL going to be a traditional Chinese [...]
New Toy
We picked up a new laptop today (Yay) that has Windows Vista already pre-loaded (Boo). It was about time. We have an old hand-me-down from friend back in Singapore, and while it was probably a top of the line model years ago when it was first released, it’s showing its age. The fact that the [...]
Night Of Nerdcore
It’s too bad there weren’t more get togethers like this in my younger days. It would have helped alleviate a lot of the whole “youthful alienattion and lack of sense of belonging” that plagued so much of my youth. The wife and I spent the evening with “my tribe” that is to say, gamers. A [...]
Possible Trip?
We’ll have to see whether it can be worked out or not, but IGN is at least broaching the possibility of sending me to the Canadian Game Developer’s Conference in Vancouver. It would be cool to go, particularly since it would make for an unusual birthday present (the conference runs May 12th and 13th, my [...]
Yup, Still Playing
The plot for this game is at times amazingly interesting and amazingly hilarious. I’m still quite impressed with how good the story is.