World of Goo Review

I recently wrote a review of World of Goo, Experimental Gameplay's maiden voyage into the world of retail games, for BlogCritics. Read it there, but here's the opening paragraph:

According to Metacritic, World of Goo is the greatest game of all time. It would be hard to argue that it truly comes close, but it's just extremely difficult to fault such a gem of a game for anything. The game came from Tower of Goo from the Experimental Gameplay Project, which cranked out game prototypes in just a week. In its fully realized form for the PC, Mac and Wii, the game is a wonderfully fun and slick puzzler that serves as a great example of an independent game.

Koran Passages in Music to Delay LittleBigPlanet

Perhaps the most anticipated game ever, LittleBigPlanet is going to be delayed some period of time because one of the songs contains passages from the Koran. Awful, awful news. I got to participate in the beta, and I and all of the reviews thus far can tell you that this game is going to be a huge deal. Sony is likely crapping their pants, to put it in the classiest way I can. This Kotaku post explains the situation the best from what I've read.

What can you do? Apparently, Muslims find singing the words of the Koran offensive, if I understand this correctly. Once Sony finds this out, they can't realistically just release the game and promise a patch, because anyone who isn't connected to the internet never receives that patch. I guess this is the only option this far down the road to release... They have to just re-manufacture all of the game discs with this minute change. Ugh...

Yeah, um, Disbarred.

Jack Thompson was finally and permanently disbarred yesterday. It's like there's no reason for this site to exist any more. Almost sad, really.

New Job: Blogcritics.org

Now that I'm back I guess I can take a break and write somewhere else again. I'm now going to write basically everything for blogcritics.org, which is obviously a lot more high-profile than what I've got going right here. Here's my profile page, so you can keep up with articles I write. My first article was Spore in Retrospect.

I've Been Gone for a While, But Hey, T-Shirts!

Yeah, I haven't written here for a while. I had, you know, stuff to do, sort of. Anyway, I'm now going to start putting some merchandise on Zazzle in case someone actually wants it. I've already posted a Legal Arcade shirt. So, buy it, if you'd like.

My New Column: Nate's Blank Slate

I've started up a column on playstationdirect.net called Nate's Blank Slate. My first post is here, and it's about the potential over-hype that could cause fallout with fans over LittleBigPlanet. I'll be putting down a new post there every Monday, so check it out.

PS3 Trophies Are Really Here

Super Stardust officially introduced the Playstation trophy system, but the combination of Uncharted and Pixeljunk Eden makes us now firmly in the era of PS3 trophies. I always had Uncharted, and I've purchased Eden, so both are competing with Civilization: Revolution and Metal Gear Online for my time. Rejoice Sonyites, we are all also now Achievement Whores!