• Marketing is a Feature

    Some things about the smartphone wars are objective. The Nexus 5 has a larger screen than the iPhone 5s, while the iPhone has a fingerprint sensor and the Nexus doesn't.

  • Everything is Permitted

    After two straight days of Assassin's Creed IV I'm starting to lose my grip on reality a little.

  • What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?

    Day two was about Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. It only took five years and six games, but Ubisoft's pirate adventure is the best entry in the series and my selection for Game of the Year.

  • Day One

    The power supply is all rectangles. Kinect is a rectangle. The USB cable ends in a rectangle. If Microsoft were selling the Xbox One on Cybertron I suspect the controllers would be rectangular.

  • Obsolete

    Last night I arranged my current generation games in their final resting case. I almost filled up a 128 disc game binder with Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2, and PS3 games. Oh, and Wii games too I suppose.

  • Xbox One hunting

    Online shopping is fun. Online shopping under a time limit is maddening.

  • Uphill Both Ways

    As a kid I hated when coincidences of language were used to justify decisions.

  • Recabling fever

    Every six months or so the planets align and I'm compelled to disassemble my entertainment center and put it back together, better than it was before.

  • Next gen jitters

    As much as I'm supposed to revile Gamestop's trade-in policy, being able to turn an unwanted 3DS XL into 25% of my Xbox One preorder is pretty sweet.

  • Thor: The Dark World

    I'm not wild about Thor as a superhero-punching-things movie. There's not a good baseline of his power.