With the publishing of the boozepaper last week, the newspaper is officially done for the 2010/2011 publishing season. There will be no more weekly issues until the next batch of fall/winter courses begin in September. In the mean time, however, occasional summer issues are planned under what’s to be called the newsmagazine. These will occur [...]
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Andrew
Well, this was a pain in the ass. What should’ve been an easy and straightforward news piece about student/campus charity initiatives for Japan turned into a massive hassle because apparently very few people yet care enough to mobilize their humanitarian efforts. Oh sure, any other natural disaster can afflict any other country, and U of [...]
Play Gravity Bone. It’s free, it’s about 10 minutes long, and it’s the single most exceptional game I have played in a long time (and this is after Super Meat Boy and VVVVVV no less, so truly that must say something). Click here to download it. Next week, if I’m able to set aside some [...]
Against my better judgement, I’ve spent time writing an article for this week’s issue. Sure, it only took me an hour, but that’s still an hour which could’ve been better spent flipping through an Ancient Greek dictionary trying to make sense of Euripides. Anyway, for our weekly debate we settled on whether or not the [...]
VVVVVV There’s no gaming experience quite like that of a good 2D platformer. Unfortunately, mainstream offerings of this particular genre these days seem to be squarely focused on the Metroid-Vania trend of fussy micromanaged exploration. And while I love a good romp through Dracula’s castle as much as the next guy, sometimes you just have [...]