Archive for April, 2008

The Okami Cover Art Saga

As you might’ve heard by now if you frequent gaming sites, the cover art for Okami for the Wii has a bit of a mistake. And by mistake, I mean it has IGN’s watermark on it, meaning that whoever arranged the cover art for the game’s Wii release (haha, get it!?) used artwork from IGN’s [...]

Curt Video Games on April 24th, 2008

Wrist-mounted Flamethrower, anyone?

This is very spiffy. He should go fight crime.
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You can read more on Gizmodo.

Curt Technology on April 24th, 2008

Download the 1st Issue of EGM

The first ever issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, circa 1989, which features a preview of Mega Man 2 is now available for download on RetroMags here.

Curt Books and Video Games on April 24th, 2008

WotC Shows us the Warlord for D&D 4e

WotC has posted some explanation about the new Warlord class as well as posted the entirety of the class and some examples of Warlord builds. This gives a pretty good glimpse of how a class and it’s abilities in 4e are structured.
Read it all here.

Curt Role Playing Games on April 21st, 2008

Joe’s Chat App v2

After my Actionscript workshop I was pumped and ready to do something in flash… but what to do?
I decided to use my new knowledge of flash and PHP to recreate my flash chat app, and so far so good. In one day I have managed to do much of what I did when I first [...]

Joe Role Playing Games and Technology on April 20th, 2008

River City Ransom on the VC

Woot! One of the best NES games ever made finally arrives on the Virtual Console on Monday! Time to dust off the Wii again, folks!
It’s just a shame there’s no online multiplayer.
Read more on Destructoid

Curt Video Games on April 17th, 2008

Make Stephen Colbert #1

Go to the Time site here and vote to make Stephen Colbert the #1 most influential person in the world. Can’t have some Korean pop star beat him out!

Curt Humour and News on April 16th, 2008

Ben Folds - Still Fighting It

Allow me to get sappy with your Monday Music Video, folks.
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Curt Music on April 14th, 2008

Monday, bloody monday

Carl typically does this, but I figured “why not?” So here I am, saying hello and good morning. How was everyone’s weekend? I had a good one. I took it easy and played with my tablet all weekend. It’s very comfortable to surf the internet on the couch while listening to your mp3s through your [...]

Curt Personal on April 14th, 2008

Star Wars - 1942

Do I smell our next campaign? With such an expansive universe the clash of steampunk and starwars only amplifies this classic cinamatic gem.

Joe Movies and Role Playing Games on April 13th, 2008