by Jason T. Kocher August 22nd, 2011 - Culture » Video Games »
I am obsessive. I am a perfectionist. But most of the energy has been sucked into the almost endless time spiral of video game simulations. I remember years and years lost to the Madden franchise, long nights adjusting my franchise with surgeon’s tools, plowing through games just to see the team’s progression, and finally using […]
by Jason T. Kocher August 11th, 2011 - Science » Culture » Video Games »
I recently purchased Gran Turismo 5 due to my newly found fandom of Top Gear, an interest to learn how to drive manual, and the fact that Burnout Paradise is good for learning how to violently crash a car but not actually how to drive a car in any proper way. Upon revving up GT5, […]
by Jason T. Kocher July 15th, 2011 - Culture » Video Games »
I love game company Valve and their distribution system, Steam. I have logged many hours basking in the “Om Nom Nom” of the zombie survival game Left 4 Dead, have sat in awe of the Half Life and Portal franchises, and have discovered such strange indie games However, it never dawned on me that they […]
by Jason T. Kocher June 27th, 2011 - Culture » Politics » Society »
The Supreme Court of the United States has decided some interesting cases in the last year. Most recently came a decision that overturned a California law banning/fining sales of violent video games to minors, leaving the moral decision of such incidents to families rather than the all-knowing Oz. Bravo to SCOTUS for making the rational […]