Today the United States Department of Justice and 11 states (Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana) filed an antitrust suit against Google, with the focus being it’s domination of the internet search market. I’ve been saying for years Google has been ,quite simply, a monopoly. They have their hands far to […]
Here we have another one of those more odd episodes of The Angry Video Game Nerd where instead of focusing on one particular game, he spends time discussing a whole category of games which follow a similar theme – in this case, sports games on the Atari 2600! While certainly not mine, or the Nerds […]
Space Invaders was released in 1980 for the Atari 2600 (then Atari VCS) game system. It has the distinction of being the first arcade game to the officially licensed for any home game console, and would become the first “killer app” for the Atari 2600 – people would buy the console specially to play Space […]
2020 has been a hell of a year for pretty much everyone on Earth. As is obvious I’ve even stepped away quite a bit from this website and many related projects (although my work in the BBS scene took over, so it wasn’t time wasted) and this has caused obvious delays in, well, everything. I’ve […]
Welcome to Arlen, Texas. A perfectly average town with perfectly average people living perfectly average lives. In this case our story focuses primarily on Hank Hill and his family and friends. Following a quick introduction to Hank and his friends Dale Gribble, Bill Dauterive, and Jeff Boomhauer, we get to the focus of this first […]
For those not in the know, the MMO FPS Destiny 2 is going through what amounts to a massive reset come November 10th with the release of the Beyond Light expansion. In very basic form, much of what currently makes up Destiny 2, some of which has been there since the beginning, is going to […]
This is another one of those entries I’ve been meaning to get to for what feels like forever – a bit of a look into how I view the nature of discourse or, more correctly, how I come to the conclusions and opinions I have about reality. Simply put, as the title states, I feel […]
I’m going to make this a short one, as not only am I writing it with a bit of a time crunch but I’m also pretty set on what October will consist of. I used September as a month to get back into the groove of writing, after several months taking a bit of a […]
Well damn, it’s about time Microsoft realized that maybe, just maybe, October is the perfect month to have a lineup of games that fit with a spooky, scary, or otherwise “Halloween” theme. Let’s dive right in. On the Xbox One we have Slayaway Camp: Butcher’s Cut and Maid of Sker. Okay, Slayaway Camp doesn’t look […]
For the past few months I’ve spent an incredible amount of time working on my own bulletin board system, or BBS. That’s right, a major project I’ve spent many days on has been my own implementation of an otherwise obsolete online communications method and it’s been one of the most fun things I’ve worked on […]
Can’t blame me for trying, right? This morning I got up and waited for the stroke of 10 A.M. central time for Xbox Series S/X preorders to begin, hoping there was a chance I might be able to secure one. I failed in that task. Trust me, I wasn’t seriously expecting to actually snag one, […]
The big news topic right now in gaming is Microsoft announcing this morning the purchase of ZeniMax Media and, by virtue of this purchase their acquisition of Bethesda, among some other smaller studios. Make no mistake, this is a major play on Microsoft’s part. Many, however, are wanting to treat this like it’s nothing special […]
Gaming is, very clearly from this site, a major hobby of mine, at least in the context of it’s very important to me. I actually don’t play games as often as one would think – I spend quite a bit of time working on various projects and rarely actually find time to sit down and […]
A few years ago I got bit by the “BBS” bug – a phenomena among some of us in the vintage technology scene to hunt down and experience the pre-internet culture of Bulletin Board Systems. Contrary to popular belief, these services are still alive and well in the 21st century, albeit adapted for and living […]
I got an email yesterday evening from YouTube regarding their partner program and some upcoming changes to it — the long and the short of it is they will no longer be allowing people to pre-sign the contract associated with the program; you’ll have to wait until you meet their stupid threshold to monetize before […]