I’ve been playing StarCraft 2 a lot. Luckily, it’s been somewhat productive. Here are three how-tos I’ve written.
Note: these were totally learn-by-doing affairs, so enjoy, and feel free to make fun. I swear I’ll be way wonkier in a month.
Is there anything more tedious than an op-ed by an aging writer with a giant stick up his a** who wants you to believe putting the stick in was the best decision he ever made? Here’s how these articles work (we’ll get to the video games part in a second):
Originally appeared in slightly different form on LAist.
Boldly fighting for Truth, Justice, and the American Apparel Way
Which is why I was excited by last week’s announcement that DC had rolled out a new look and origin for their venerable Super Heroine. That is, until I actually saw it, and nearly unloaded my lunch onto my keyboard.
Good god, sometimes things happen that are so amazing you lose sight of everything else and wake up 6 hours later with no memory of how you ended up in the Marines. I guarantee you that will be happening to me tonight because the first thing I’m doing when I get home is downloading the demo of Mega Man Death Match…
Read the rest at File Front.
Red Alert 3. Great goddamned game*, and oh do I love me the time travel-induced alternate universe warfare. But really, each campaign ends with the war over (and sadly, with the Hasselhoff as President), but WTF EA? You’re churning out MOUNTAINS of Mass Effect DLC. Surely you can get to work on Red Alert 4**, right? Luckily, Infinity Realms feels the same way and they’ve made Red Alert 3: Paradox…
Feel free to read the whole thing over at File Front.
A guy calling himself Dives possibly ruined his eyes creating the most amazing L4D2 EVARZ. It recreates, in it’s entirety, the Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye ride from Disneyland. And I do mean “entirety”…
Read the whole thing over at File Front.
I thought I’d seen everything Valve’s Source engine could do for me. Endless, endless FPS Half-Life 2 mods that, well, are fun but kind of run together. Finally, FINALLY, someone did something kind of awesome and….
Read the rest here!
Jesus H. Christ everyone, every time I find myself coming to terms with having been left out of the StarCraft II beta test, something happens to make me want to gouge my own eyes out with a beta tester’s severed…
The full post can be read here.
Did you play Mount & Blade? I did. Did you like it? I… did? It had great horseback combat and the character management was pretty cool. But lord, did it get boring. Like the last six GTA 4 missions boring. That said, a definite A for effort, assuming they do a sequel and add more, you know, stuff to do. Anyway, you’re here because…
The full post can be read here.
The Resistance and Liberation guys have been correctifying up a storm with the stream of updates to the open beta. We already reported on the last batch of updates, but as if to say “hey check out this link bait!”…
The Rest can be found over at gamefront.
Ross Lincoln is a freelance writer and wine-soaked dilletante based in Los Angeles. He is currently the Modding News writer for gaming website 
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