http://www.shapermc.com Matthew Williamson Rides Alone Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:40:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Radio silence has ended. Sorry for the seeming lack of updates. I've started school and been exceptionally busy.  But, it is Halloween! My favorite time of year. With the holiday comes the glory of good and bad horror movies. Thanks to NetFlix and their "watch it now" on-demand movie viewing service ... http://www.shapermc.com/2008/10/21/horrorween/ What happen to Sonic Youth? The honest answer is nothing. They've been releasing albums like clockwork for nearly as long as I've been alive. The last album of theirs I bought was Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, though this was after Washing Machine had been released. In the span ... http://www.shapermc.com/2008/08/31/where-is-your-sonic-youth/ Dylan Cuthbert has done it again. PixelJunk Eden was released last week for the PS3 via download on the PSN. This makes two of the best games on the system from the same damn guy. That's a pretty impressive feat. Now, PixelJunk Eden is in line with the whole PJ theme ... http://www.shapermc.com/2008/08/03/eden-everyday/ Calamity Annie is perhaps the first dyke western videogame. I can't think of any others. I probably should have written about this game sooner, but I was under strict orders to say nothing about it except in vague terms.  I'm not really good at that so I just kept my mouth ... http://www.shapermc.com/2008/08/03/calamity-annie/ Well, I guess I should celebrate as one of my all time favorite games--Umihara Kawase--is getting brought to the US, finally. Unfortunately it's the PSP version and not something great like an import on the PSN store for my PS3, but I'll take what I can get. Umihara Kawase is a ... http://www.shapermc.com/2008/07/19/yumis-odd-odyssey/ It seems like today was my lucky day. While doing a bit of shopping and wandering around Game Stop I picked up three great Taito packages. First the old stuff. I grabbed PC version of Taito Legends 1&2 for around $12 total. I know what most people are thinking right now: ... http://www.shapermc.com/2008/07/18/green-taito-day/ E3 is over, and nothing really new has been said. How uneventful. One excellent thing did come out of it all though: the demo for Siren: Blood Curse is now up on the PSN for your shiny PS3 that sits around being used as a media center and PS2 machine ... http://www.shapermc.com/2008/07/17/siren-blood-curse/ While I'm pretty sure this is a quiet story in the gaming press, it's something that's struck me as totally bizarre. In Age of Conan female characters attack approximately 33% slower than their male counterparts for most classes. This is something that made it through at least 18 months of ... http://www.shapermc.com/2008/07/07/sexism-in-games-redux-age-of-conan-not-lost-in-blue/ One of the first huge enemies I've encountered in the game. I had to climb to the top of a mountain in Connel Valley to find them. Much larger than their flatland brethren. Unfortunately they were a bit of a push-over compared to what you'd expect from something their size. http://www.shapermc.com/2008/06/29/vice-vs-the-yeti/ In the 1920's a depressed and talented pugilist took up his hand at writing for pulp publications of the time. Later this man would become a contemporary of era standing next to pillars like Howard Phillip Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. Stemming from his love of history, particularly that of ... http://www.shapermc.com/2008/06/18/hyborian-ages/