This is an interesting comic... I guess as the gamer population ages this is going to be alot more common place. Maybe gamers will have to start stories with "When I was your age..." hahaha....

Portal as a business model...

Kotaku has a very interesting article... With the success of Portal being analyzed what does this say in to our industry? Should this model be the litmus test for all innovated products deemed too risky by, to use a Half Life convention, our benefactors?

Its an interesting thought... I don't obviously don't have any answers so I will merely pose more questions. Is it a way to test the reduce the risk game production? Or is it simply that game publishing executives don't have the stomach for this business anymore? I'm guessing the game executives of today don't have an the experience of beating OR are unwilling to "bet the farm" on some crazy kids game design project? Which is understandable... but this business was built on the "crazy kids game design project" and moving away from that ultimately lead to gamers who remember the good ol' days to blow the dust off their old gaming machines... the whole retro gaming industry I believe it a spin off of the lack of innovation and unwillingness to take risks in the gaming industry.

Wow... that was long winded... if your still reading Thanks for endulging me. See the orginal Kotaku link below.

http://kotaku.com/336504/gearbox-want-to-copy-portal

Another classic from Penny Arcade

Pictures from my work Christmas Party.

Mr. Plow...

During our 1 day of snow fall I managed to snap a picture of a snow plow. Don't ask why I felt compled to post this picture. Maybe I just needed something to do... or maybe I need to justify going out and walking in the bitter cold for nothing but a stupid picture... ah well another question that life will not answer.