Boardgamers will chuckle at this…

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I DO Know Jack!

I was pleasantly surprised to find an online version of the old hit PC trivia game You Don’t Know Jack online! My wife (back before she was my wife) and I played all five or six versions of this on the PC back when we were in college. The online implementation is excellent, but it’s [...]

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johnaugust.com » Seven Things I Learned from World of Warcraft

This is cool. The tags of this post read: Gaming/Videogames, Film&TV/Screenwriting, and Work/Productivity/GTD. I never thought I’d have a post that cut across three interests like that, but here you go.
For the uninitiated, John August is a screenwriter. His best-known work is probably Big Fish. Anyway, the man is a geek, and while I read [...]

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Memoirs of a Gamer, Part II

This is the second part of a my so-called gaming memoirs. The first part is here.
II. Outside of Home, Early Childhood
At school, the board games of home gave way to card games and dexterity games. The standard physical play of jumprope, hide-and-seek, tag, dueling yo-yos and street games (patintero, tumbang preso and siato for [...]

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Memoirs of a Gamer, Part I

I turn 35 today. For most of those years, my recreation choices have shown a heavy bias towards games. Since I’ve been awat from the journal a while, I decided to do a sort of “memory dump” of the role of gaming in my life. For those of you who read this space for other [...]

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Tetsuya Nomura’s Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (1/4 stars)

Two words: fans only.

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is not so much a feature film as it is an extended series of FMV cutscenes that would be more at home tacked onto the end of the eponymous popular videogame.
The main reason for this is the story. Someone who hasn’t played the FF7 game would have [...]

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