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How best to waste one’s life, reviewed. Alternatively: How to enjoy video games as an artform, yet avoid being up one’s own ass.

Revenge of Return to Son of Monkey Island

by Jason Thomas Kocher July 26th, 2009 Culture » Video Games »

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image copyright Telltale Games and LucasArts

You know…there was a time when my mind wasn’t always the near perfectly functioning abstract steel trap that it is today.

Yes…there was indeed a time I would have never thought of putting a bomb in a pair of frilly pink bloomers left to dry [...]

Telltale Games Monkey Island “Game Developer for a Day”

by Jason Thomas Kocher July 16th, 2009 Culture » Video Games »

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image copyright Telltale Games and LucasArts

Now is an orgasmic time for fans of the classic point and click adventure comedy series Monkey Island. LucasArts has revamped the original Secret of Monkey Island and Telltale Games has just begun a brilliant continuation of the series through [...]

The Awe of Eve: Toddler’s First Nebula

by Jason Thomas Kocher July 16th, 2009 Culture » Video Games »

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image copyright CCP and EVE Online Click above for proper sized love.

While not intending to turn The Sporadical into an EVE Online blog – it is of course still primarily a Doctor Who blog after all – the MMORPG has fascinated so much [...]

AudioSurf - Riding the Wave

by Jason Thomas Kocher May 24th, 2009 Culture » Sounds » Culture » Video Games »

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty [...]

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