PlanetPhillip drama

I can't tell if this is all in good fun or if Phillip is really outraged, but it's still funny.

http://www.planetphillip.com/phillyversusbilly/

"Videogames are art" - Wrong

Are videogames art? An interesting (but very wrong) article from the Wolfire games blog after Roger Ebert caved in (no pun intended - just kidding, it was) to the masses of mindless gamers who insist videogames as an art form.  So when a developer can crank out three sequels a year and have hundereds of programmers, model makers, sound designers, or what have you, designing a game then it is a manufacturing process at that point. I'm not saying videogames CAN'T be art, there are definitely some good examples out there, but to imply all games as an art is absurd. The same could be said for movies.

Cheat in Starcraft - Lose your game

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/blizzard_starcraft_ii_cheaters_will_be_banned_single-player_and_multiplayer

Blizzard has been banning players online for cheating for years (which is good, in my opinion), but now there's a new twist - the ban extends to singleplayer.  I find it strange how fanboys are willing to defend Blizzard's actions no matter what.  Blizzard could jump off a cliff and I'm sure their fans would blindly follow.

Ignatius J. Reilly is alive and has a blog!

Is that Gabe Newell guy a fat fuck or what? I can't believe he finds time between stuffing his chubby face with KFC and swallowing the pieces of chicken whole -- without chewing, just like a snake -- to shoot his smacking mouth off about how the PS3 is a disaster. You know what is a disaster? The fat fucks cholesterol levels. How about he takes some time off from enhancing his whale like physique and howling about the PS3 like a sea lion in heat, as pieces of chicken fly into the collective faces of the internet and instead squeeze out more that 1 game every decade, huh how about that? Then at least what he says would have a semblance of relevance instead of being the annoying ramblings of the man-child leader of a game company with almost no games released in 15 years for a now defunct platform.
-Kamiboy, "Last Man", Friday, October 12, 2007

If Ignatius J. Reilly were alive today and was writing angry posts about videogames on the internet, then I think I just found him (and I mean that in a positive way, honest!).  Read this blog and this blog, too.  It's a blog about how much the industry has changed for the worst, the death of PC gaming, the golden years of what gaming used to be, and why Gabe Newell is an asshole.  It's very well written and articulated and I couldn't put my thoughts into into words better than this man.