Humble Indie Bundle 3.0

I made a post about the previous Humble Bundle and the awesome things they're doing for charity. The boys are bringing it around again with five new indie titles as incentive for your hard earned cash.

Since Humble Bundle have started their endeavor, they have raised over one million dollars to help Child's Play make children smile! This little bundle of joy would be a great way to unwind after an intense session of hardcore gaming while earning yourself a bit of good karma.

Indie Game Spotlight: Super Fun Fangirl Adventure Time

They're coming ...
Semi-shameless self plug time. My classmate and I have made a obscenely ridiculous (and quite probably copyright infringing) mini-game for an EA sponsored competition called 'Games4Girls'.

They should be about finished judging this weekend at their Retreat, so I feel a little less guilty posting about it. Not that we're destined to win, the game was supposed to be made for High School aged Girls to enjoy playing. Ours potentially insults them.

PAX East 2011: Headliner Titles (Part Two)

Rockin' the Food Court with NE Smashers Fatal and Sphere.

Another round of top publishers whirly-gigs and whatchamacallits for us all to salivate over in anticipation.

PAX East 2011: Headliner Titles (Part One)

Many high profile publishers were present at PAX East to show off their current and future releases. Let's run through a quick shake down of what THQ, EA, and Valve brought to Show and Tell.

Pax East 2011: Plants Vs Zombies

Just to prove I'm not a complete slacker, here's a short homage to the ridiculously cute marketing Popcap's Plants Vs Zombies enlightened convention goers with this weekend.

They stationed themselves on the front lines of battle, next to one of the entry doors, and proceeded to pass out Sunflower and Zombie stamped traffic cones that would tickle any fan's fancy.



Hats were only the paltry gift they were offering to passersby, the real treat was if you managed to find their cosplaying Sunflowers and Zombie characters wandering around the convention floor. We tripped across two Zombies in the media line and some Sunflowers intervened to protect my honour (and brains).

Get to Know: Siao

With Dallas soon approaching, I chatted up a rising power player out of Philly; Jesse "Siao" Ansbro, someone we're sure to be hearing more of throughout the 2011 season.

Microsoft Imagine Cup

The Imagine Cup is a technology competition hosted by Microsoft. Falling in line with Bill Gates' humanitarianism, the primary objective is to essentially save the world with innovative game play or software development.

A daunting task, no doubt, but who doesn't want to be a superhero?

3D Fan Art

I was bumbling across the internet and tripped upon some rather fantastic 3D model fan art.

Here are some of my favourites I found on CG Society's forums.


Now imagine him with Tim Allen's voice. Fabulous.

Humble Bundle

This awesome Indie Package could be considered old news in the gaming world at this point, but these awesome kids pumped it up over level 9000 by sweetening the deal to help bump up donations.

For those who have no idea what I am talking about, the Humble Bundle is a package deal of five games that you get to pick the amount paid for. The current round is actually the second campaign these guys have set up, and they've now added another six games (from the original bundle) to the deal as long as you donate at least 7.40$ to the cause.

Happy Holidays

These packages make the Grinch look like an amateur.


Happy Holidays from DANIELS on Vimeo.


(via @lindspanther)

Confessions of a Modern Day Scrooge

Tis' the season to be Jolly, and all that rubbish.

As anyone who speaks with me on the topic for more than Sixty seconds would know, I'm not exactly the biggest fan of the holiday season.

This may or may not be affected by my current occupation that forces glitter and fake cinnamon scents upon any in a 2 mile radius.

On the other hand, I am a huge fan of Winter. It's such a crisp season. The contrast of a barren tree against an overcast sky after a fresh snowfall; the first flurries of the season dusting full pines twinkling with cheesy string lights; smashing a snowball smack dab in the middle of a younger sibling's face.

Xbox Live Rewards Goes ... Live

Microsoft launched a new programme mimicking the Frequent Fliers model of 'you were going to do it anyway, here's a cookie' member rewards.

Banelings, Banelings, Banelings

As if you haven't already seen it.

Roller Coaster Junkie

It's worth it just for the song.

Accidentally a Whole Cable Bill!

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I

My Moves, Allow Me to Exhibit Them.

So, you wanna learn about Smash?


Obviously you do, as yes is the only valid answer available.

(Compliments of one of the original smashers, Captain Falcon!)

You do not want to disagree with the Captain.


Enough with the lulz, on to the real stuff!


As any respectable gamer knows, Smash began with the original N64 title "Super Smash Brothers", in 1999. An unexpected success in the eyes of Nintendo, who gave it a tiny budget and originally only released it in Japan.

All in the Details

I'm almost positive no one else will find this of interest, but I've been mildly binging on Monk via the Instant Queue on Netflix this evening and had the ridiculous epiphany that Captain Leland Stottlemeyer is played by Ted Levine.



Epitome of creepy to ... Suave and mustachio'ed?
For those who don't know, he also played Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs.

Upon making the connection, the character is now completely corrupted for me! It's taking a while to acclimate to the contrasting character. Then again, Mr. Levine is actually quite the accomplished actor, and I admire his ability to not allow himself to be pigeon-holed after such a memorable role.

We Really Need to Talk ...

By Justin