December 2009
20 posts
Scott Olstad's Top 100 Games of the 00's: Mulligan...
Sorry sports racers. Had too much fun tonight. We’ll pick it back up tomorrow.
My Top 100 Games of the 00's: #50-21
Merry Christmas and welcome back to the countdown of my 100 favorite games of the past decade. Tonight we have the next thirty games on the list. I liked them a lot! 50. MLB ’09 The Show - 2009 I’m sorry Ken Griffey Jr. Present Major League Baseball, but MLB ‘09 The Show is the best baseball video game of all time. Looks great, plays great, blah blah blah. At the end of the day,...
Scott Olstad's Top 100 Games of the 00's: #100-51
For the first time since my brother and I received a Super Nintendo as the best Christmas present of all time in 1991, I quit playing video games for more than six months this year. It was good for me, but as a result, I’m way behind on my year-end list. Finishing my best of 2009 awards by the end of January will be a stretch, so to compensate, I’m going to reveal my favorite games...
Final NYC photo set is up. Only took me seven... →
I found more NYC photos on my hard drive. I threw them up on Flickr. You can find the photo sets from my trips to the Statue of Liberty and the Top of the Rock at the links.
WatchBoom.
Stevie Wonder is presenting the award for the Best Music Game on Spike TV’s Video Game Awards.
1. Amazingly, he somehow appears to be having trouble reading off the teleprompter like every other presenter.
2. Imagine the gap in his head between how video games must have been explained to him and reality. I mean, people were saying Goldeneye looked “just like real life” back in...
“Sometimes I think ‘seeking adventure’ is just a euphemism for...”
– Jeff Engebretson, whose writing I will stop identifying with the day I start taking myself too seriously
More than four years later, how Youtube and America’s Funniest Home Videos have never interacted is a complete mystery to me.
Tumblr camera stats
staff:
We decided to organize some camera statistics from photos uploaded to Tumblr, and it revealed some interesting data:
One of the most surprising results is the dominance of photos taken with Apple’s Photo Booth application, which snaps photos from the built-in webcams in most Macs.
Entry-level SLRs are extremely popular among Tumblr photographers, especially Canon’s Digital Rebel...
Advice after reading "decade-best" video game...
#7. Super Smash Bros. Melee is not a better game than Super Smash Bros. Brawl. People just think it is because Brawl wasn’t the only game they could play for the nine long months until another decent Gamecube game was released while all their friends were playing Halo.
#8. If God of War II is better than God of War in every regard (and it is), then God of War II is a better game than God of...
