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Bioshock Infinite videogame review

Bioshock Infinite videogame review

Its for the children When I told the Magistra I had played Bioshock Infinite, and I was shocked by its graphic violence, she was surprised. "I didn't think you would play another Bioshock game." After the review I gave Bioshock, I suppose I'm not

Fallout 2 Review

Fallout 2 Review

Fallout 2 follows closely upon its predecessor. Published only a year later (1998) than Fallout, Interplay had taken the development team from Fallout and created Black Isle studios. The engine is the same, the gameplay is the same, but what is different is more. There are more quests to do.

Fallout Review

Fallout Review

No, not that one. This one. The one that started it all. Fallout was released in 1997 by Interplay. A turn-based RPG with an isometric top-down view, and sprite graphics, Fallout has aged pretty well. I didn't play this game until 12 years after it came out, but

A Capsule History of English SciFi and Fantasy

From John C Wright comes a capsule history of science fiction and fantasy in English. A reader asks a fascinating question. He speaks of a recent history of science fiction he’d read, and says the editors “laid the blame of ghetto-izing science fiction at John W. Campbell’s feet.

The Cloud and the Storm

The Cloud and the Storm

I just read an article Sunday morning over breakfast that was considering the move to cloud computing. The particular subject of this article was the rumor that Apple may offer streaming music in the near future. I can see the obvious benefits of the cloud. What worries me are the

A Canticle for Walter Miller

Ignatius Insight published a good piece on Walter Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz for it's 50th anniversary. The question Miller asks the reader and himself: can man escape Original Sin? Or, will man, doomed, carry it wherever he goes, whether it be into the American

Religion and Science Fiction

First Things has an article on their website [and in the April issue] regarding religious themes in science fiction, that mention a number of my favorite authors and books. These include Jerry Pournelle's and Larry Niven's Inferno and Escape from Hell, James Blish's A