30 days ago, I was driving from South Carolina to Los Angeles without a full time job.
20 days ago, I was on my first interview at a social networking company in Westwood.
10 days ago, I was on my third callback interview with a tech company in El Segundo.
5 days ago, I had three different job offers in my lap.
Today, I [...]
I rarely post about politics, but something intriguing on the campaign front caught my eye today. A presidential candidate is advertising in Burnout Revenge. For those unfamiliar, Burnout Revenge is a car-racing video game owned by Electronic Arts.
Electronic Arts sells ad space on digital billboards within the game. When gamers hop online to play a little Burnout [...]
I found Dan Hsu’s blog today. It’s about his experiences as a gaming journalist at EGM. Check out all three parts if you are interested in how advertising and pr folks influence coverage of the industry.
I was inspired to write a smidgen of a blog post about my limited experience with public relations influence over how games are reviewed. VGT [...]
Just wanted to give a quick shout-out to the makers of Braid. The art direction is utterly amazing as you can see above. A couple drawbacks are that it’s too short and costs too much ($15) on XBLA. It would have been priced appropriately at $10.
I did the freak-out dance today in public when a bee landed on my arm [...]
I saw a man pushing a baby stroller with a toddler down the road today with his left hand and carrying a running weed trimmer in his right hand. He was either nuts or some sort of Nanny / Landscaper hybrid. Crazy or not, I drove away blissfully indifferent of the Cabbage Patch Kidnapper.
I tend to embrace my apathy. [...]
I’ve may have fallen into a Mobius Strip of writing endlessly until it’s time to sleep again. I’m content to repeat that cycle over and over while my bank account gleefully greets the array of dead presidents being added every day. The lucrative lifestyle makes me want to move again, perhaps up north for a few months.
I’ve been receiving an [...]
I completed the single player campaign over the weekend and took some time to reflect today. The plight of Niko Bellic was very much a series of well constructed moments, designed to bring out the inner sociopath or benevolent soul in you. There are brief, flourishing cinematic points that sparked delight in me, Packie’s Three Leaf Clover being [...]
