Have you had a chance to check out my GameFanShop partner store yet? Now’s the perfect time to explore. It’s a PC gaming paradise. You get great discounts on PC downloads and get to help support Sketchy Details in the…
The true story of an impressive act of trolling to teach game pirates that pirating games costs developers money and possibly their business. Greenheart Games released a game about developing video games. They put a cracked version on torrent sites with a built in glitch: hit the Internet age and you start hemorrhaging money because of piracy.
What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy?
There are a lot of Pokemon webcomics out there. Rare Candy Treatment examines the odd quirks of the Pokemon universe. Super Effective is a slapstick reimagining of the manga, complete with black and white tones. Nuzlocke’s Hard Mode brings an…
Geek & Sundry has a new series from some of the Robot Chicken creators called FetchQuest. Each week, they release a short animated video looking at various aspects of the video game industry. It’s sharp and committed to the theme…
Check out this really well-written account of how Ulysses by James Joyce was labeled obscene and then allowed to be published in the United States from the CBLDF. Ulysses is one of my all time favorite novels and the arguments against its publication weren’t even related to the really dark, absurd, or shocking elements of the story. How could they be? The book was blocked after Episode 13 was published in a little NYC magazine. You can’t blame Molly Bloom on this one.
Obscenity Case Files: United States v. One Book Called Ulysses
At Quinni-Con 2013, 11 costumed contestants took to the stage to compete in a send-up of the US electoral system called Cosplay Candidate. The host, A Count Named Slick-Brass, was serious from the start, eliminating one candidate before she even…
I do not consider this review to have any major spoilers. Nothing I discuss in depth happens after the first 20 or so minutes of the film. These details are also not a surprise to anyone who has a passing…
Bleeding Cool almost buried the lead on this one. Shane Black’s adaptation of the incredible noir manga Death Note is still happening. And apparently some Doc Savage film thing is happening, too. But those two sentences on Death Note? Brilliant. The live action Japanese adaptation is solid and the anime is one of my favorites. Very excited to see when this finally goes into production.
Quinni-Con 2013 had a lot of cosplay. These are the 23 cosplayers who dared to enter the cosplay contest. Honorable mentions went to the Feferi/Eridan Homestuck duo and the TARDIS from Doctor Who. Third place went to The Ice Queen…
What is it that has kept us coming back to Shakespeare again and again for centuries? Is it the masterful wordplay? The colorful characters? The layers of meaning and themes interwoven throughout? The structure that binds each play together? Alan…
And in PayPal is still evil news, Paypal refused to release crowdfunding to Skullgirls developer Lab Zero because they refused to acknowledge that the money was raised for development, not product. Paypal wouldn’t give up the money unless Lab Zero agreed to be 100% responsible for refunds on a product people pre-paid for in a game they already own and enjoy enough to prepay for product. All but $35,000 have been released now but the story’s not over. Lab Zero is out for blood and will be filing complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because no other bank or banking service pulls this nonsense.
PayPal Refuses to Release Crowdfunding to Skullgirls Developer
I had a hole in my schedule over the weekend and that was supposed to be filled with convention coverage. That’s when I did a quick search online and found out about Quinni-Con. This is a Japanese culture and entertainment…
Another week, another new set of deals at my partner store with GameFanShop. GameFanShop is an online store for downloadable computer games. You visit the site with my link, pick out what you want, and I get a small commission…