Insult Swordfighting

Above: Charlie Brown would have made a great blogger, and Snoopy a great troll. I'm not going to get all sappy on you here, but I'm ...

Above: I can feel my tummy rumbling already! It's nearly Thanksgiving, which means we're doing the links a little early this week. T...

Above: Not Horde mode, but OMG look at that Since yesterday's post was about an area in which Gears of War 2 came up short , in the int...

Above: "Bro... you're overthinking it." In writing my upcoming Gears of War 2 review, I started down a path of inquiry and th...

Don't know what it's like where you are, but here in the Northeast we've been having January-like weather all week. The unexpect...

( Update: Welcome, Slate Gaming Club readers! Scroll down for the bit about Gears of War 2 and Contra .) Because you can't make fun o...

Above: That's the power of love I haven't devoted much space to discussing LittleBigPlanet here in the blog, and if you click over ...

Above: Only teamwork will get us out of this accursed Web alive Oddly, although Left 4 Dead only comes out today, Gamestop.com has already ...

Above: It's so hard to say goodbye. I carried them with me for years, through cramped dorm rooms and ratty apartments. Whenever I packed...

Some of you have suspected this for awhile now, and it's true: Insult Swordfighting is a ruse. The writer you know as "Mitch Krpata...

Above: First you cry, and then, when you see the dancing, you cry again. Now that it's been out for three weeks and has sold a million c...

Above: Apparently this is not a photograph. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated ? Some excellent detective work by Simon Carless: I...

Above: The cuddliest lil' fellas to mince down the pike since Bubsy the Bobcat In the New Taxonomy of Gamers series, I argued that two ...

Oof, what a busy week. Good thing I wrote a couple of posts ahead of time, or you would have had nothing ! At least the links have made it t...

Above: The ending screen from Bucky O'Hare . It was totally worth the effort. I often suspect, but don't want to admit, that many of...

Above: Do it! A while back, I reviewed Stardock's The Political Machine 2008 for Paste . It's a turn-based strategy game all about ...

Above: I stole this from someone who stole it from Kotaku. God love ya, Google image search. Ah, Halloween. I look forward to the day I am a...

Match each of these games with the breathless excerpt from its review. 1. Grand Theft Auto IV 2. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots 3....

Above: Leigh Alexander, right, defends Princess Debut to a skeptical Mitch Krpata and Michael Abbott, left and center. I had the pleasure o...

Above: Nothin' unusual happenin' here My review of Silent Hill: Homecoming is up now at thephoenix.com. The comparison to Dead Spac...