This one is kind of obscure but was decidedly a favorite of mine back in the day. It wasn’t No Man’s Sky but it was fun and is still a decent game. In 1992 the Chief Financial Officer of Sierra Entertainment, Edmond Heinbockel, had had enough. I’m not sure what he had had enough of, but he had clearly had IT. He led a walk out of Sierra and with the aid of several former Sierra game devs, started a new company in 1992, Tsunami...
Good old Roger Wilco. A legendary hero from the days when there was a Babbage’s in every mall. The galaxy’s most intrepid janitor. An every-man whose ambitions were constantly thwarted. A blue-collar hero that saved the day every time and never got a thimble full of credit for it.The Space Quest series ran from 1986 – 1995 numbering six games in total. All of which were produced by that Eighties gaming powerhouse Sierra Online.Sierra games covered just about every genre from...
Back in June of this year, the unthinkable finally happened. World of Warcraft became the second most played MMO. If you strike at the king, you must rule or die and Square Enix now sits on the throne. And Blizzard was indeed the undoubted king of PC gaming for twenty years. Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, these weren’t mere franchises, these were legends. Nobody broke ground like Blizzard, nobody had the polish or the style. Blizzard didn’t have releases, they had seismic events. Present at E3? No thanks we...
Blog business first.I will be offline from Dec 1st through the 12th. I am way the hell overdue for a vacation. As of Thursday, I. Am. In. The. Wind.FIRSTThe Dark Herald Recommends: AndorI think this show was padded eight ways from sunrise. I strongly suspect that this series was originally meant to be about six hours in total. Then Kennedy got excited because something, you know, good, had crossed her desk for the first time in years. The reason I say this is that every three episodes...
I hadn’t planned to watch this, but it was on at the in-laws after Thanksgiving dinner.I’ll give the movie this much. It knew what it wanted to be. It just wasn’t a realistic goal.The original Enchanted was Disney sending itself up and it was kind of endearing. A Disney Princess comes to the real world and brings a little magic with her. The Central Park musical number was really good and did everything it was supposed to. At the end, Giselle gets the high-power New...
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NOTE: I'm using the term "hero" pretty loosely in this case.It was written in 1954, you can tell it was written in 1954 because it couldn’t be written today.This is a work of high tragedy that is strongly influenced by the Norse sagas. If you like Game Thrones but would prefer that it be written by a non-sadist that can actually fit a story that should only take two hundred pages, into two hundred pages. This is the book for...
Rumor: Kathleen Kennedy is leaving LucasFilm... Again.Sorry, not buying that one even if John Campea is. There is supposedly an agreement that she leaves the company after Indy V launches. I've heard that one before.I'm not buying that one either because she wants to leave on a high note and no project that she is headlining will be successful. How did Kathleen Kennedy get to where she is today? W-e-l-l-l-l, I do know that when she...
I’ve frequently heard the claim that superhero movies are dead or dying. That they have worn out their welcome. This is usually being said by people who were never interested in them in the first place; like film critics.However, superhero movies have been around since 1978 when young Gen-Xers were first made to believe a man could fly. It’s frequently stated that these franchises go in cycles, but this really isn’t the case. What happens, (and it happens every time), is that the franchise...
FLASH!Midnight coup by Disney’s Board of Directors.Bob Chapek, is out. Dragged from his bed in the middle of the night and stood against a wall.Bob Iger is back in as CEO for the next two(?) years. That is a weirdly abbreviated contract.Susan Arnold is remaining as Chairman of the BOD. Iger had both jobs until he was hit by a boardroom revolt in February of 2020. The institutional investors all knew that the next two or three quarters would be losses. That was baked in. It was...
