Click to be illuminated

A blog entry draws near!

I would post it here in its entirety, but the conversion from HTML to BBCode is a pain in the ass.

Last night I finished a full play-through of Wanted: Weapons of Fate on the Xbox 360. It's a third-person shooter based off the action movie Wanted, which was in turn very loosely based off the comic series of the same name.

This game got a lot of bad press when it came out, but I enjoyed it. In fact, it is from my own enjoyment that I believe I can actually understand why a lot of reviewers didn't appreciate it. W:WoF was billed and advertised as a third-person shooter, but in actuality...

In the second part of my PAX post-mortem, I go over the key pieces of epic loot acquired from the con, and speak about my experiences with the various hands-on game demos I had the pleasure of playing.

The Swag

Let's start with the loot list:

• A copy of the Last Night on Earth board game, which I reviewed elsewhere, and autographed pictures of most of the "actors" from it.
• Two free copies of the Lord of the Rings Online game and its Mines of

...

There is a feeling I get from game conventions that thrills me like only a handful of others in this life. It's the same feeling I get when inside a packed hobby-gaming store, surrounded by Pokemon tournamenteers and nerds debating the latest over-powered character class from the latest Rifts RPG sourcebook. It's rooted both in current geeky passion and in the hazy joy of nostalgia, from when my dad first woke me up in the middle of the night to play "Space Turkeys" on the Intellivision,...