Author Archives: Eric Lockaby

Cold Pornography: How Interpretation Got Sucky

  Just when you thought videogame culture was on the upswing, in swoops Nintendo with the Official Legend of Zelda Timeline. Balls. …People probably expect that sort of statement from me by now. Ever since my friend called me up

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Cold Pornography: How Interpretation Got Sucky

  Just when you thought videogame culture was on the upswing, in swoops Nintendo with the Official Legend of Zelda Timeline. Balls. …People probably expect that sort of statement from me by now. Ever since my friend called me up

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How You Got Videogames Wrong #2: The Vanity Glitch

Pissing you off in installments, the monthly series “How You Got Videogames Wrong” delves beyond appearances into the slimy interior of The God’s Truth (about videogames).  This month we’ll be looking at videogame culture’s heavy, though not altogether unhealthy, reliance

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How You Got Videogames Wrong #2: The Vanity Glitch

Pissing you off in installments, the monthly series “How You Got Videogames Wrong” delves beyond appearances into the slimy interior of The God’s Truth (about videogames).  This month we’ll be looking at videogame culture’s heavy, though not altogether unhealthy, reliance

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Skyrim Glitch Adds Welfare

Wake up, wake up, wake up it’s the 1st of the month! To get up, get up, get up, so cash your checks and get up!                                                                     –Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, “1st of tha Month.” Need further proof that Bethesda’s new digital

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Skyrim Glitch Adds Welfare

Wake up, wake up, wake up it’s the 1st of the month! To get up, get up, get up, so cash your checks and get up!                                                                     –Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, “1st of tha Month.” Need further proof that Bethesda’s new digital

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#OccupySkyrim

  WHO WE ARE From mead hall to saw mill, from castle to cavern, we are The Shit. …”Chosen One,” “Listener,” “dragonborn”—I tell ya I can’t stroll into a room these days without some jackass trumpeting my Great Arrival. I

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#OccupySkyrim

  WHO WE ARE From mead hall to saw mill, from castle to cavern, we are The Shit. …”Chosen One,” “Listener,” “dragonborn”—I tell ya I can’t stroll into a room these days without some jackass trumpeting my Great Arrival. I

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The Throat of Gaming: Skyrim

I’ll say this: Skyrim is a counterfeiter’s masterpiece. …Two minutes in I’m hunting a creature through the wintered foliage—an elk or something, I don’t know. Whatever it is it’s too stupid to know I’m out to kill it; that the

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The Throat of Gaming: Skyrim

I’ll say this: Skyrim is a counterfeiter’s masterpiece. …Two minutes in I’m hunting a creature through the wintered foliage—an elk or something, I don’t know. Whatever it is it’s too stupid to know I’m out to kill it; that the

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How You Got Videogames Wrong: It's All Interactive

 Pissing you off in installments, the monthly series “How You Got Videogames Wrong” delves beyond appearances into the slimy interior of The God’s Truth (about videogames).  This month we’ll be looking at a common misconception: that videogames—and nothing else—are interactive.

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How You Got Videogames Wrong: It's All Interactive

 Pissing you off in installments, the monthly series “How You Got Videogames Wrong” delves beyond appearances into the slimy interior of The God’s Truth (about videogames).  This month we’ll be looking at a common misconception: that videogames—and nothing else—are interactive.

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Raymond Carver vs. the Mortality of Man – A Year of Interviews With Jeffrey Auburn, #3

  APRIL It’s more accurate to say I fell towards Jeffrey—not walking so much as tumbling, passed like a gallstone through the body of the festival crowd. My sense of direction clings to a half-sighting of The Man Himself somewhere

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Raymond Carver vs. the Mortality of Man – A Year of Interviews With Jeffrey Auburn, #3

  APRIL It’s more accurate to say I fell towards Jeffrey—not walking so much as tumbling, passed like a gallstone through the body of the festival crowd. My sense of direction clings to a half-sighting of The Man Himself somewhere

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The Binding of Isaac – PC Game Review

God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son.” Abraham said, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on.” God say, “No.” Abe say, “What?” God say, “You can do what you want, Abe, but the next time you see me comin’

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The Binding of Isaac – PC Game Review

God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son.” Abraham said, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on.” God say, “No.” Abe say, “What?” God say, “You can do what you want, Abe, but the next time you see me comin’

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Imaginary Games – Book Review

You were absolutely correct: Deliverance for the 3DS does not exist. People seemed upset by that—only natural, I suppose…nobody likes falseness forced upon them. And yet, might there have been some good in it? Consider this: the people who seemed

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Imaginary Games – Book Review

You were absolutely correct: Deliverance for the 3DS does not exist. People seemed upset by that—only natural, I suppose…nobody likes falseness forced upon them. And yet, might there have been some good in it? Consider this: the people who seemed

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Deliverance – 3DS Review

Deliverance is a risky game. Developed by newcomer Southsoft for the 3DS, the game’s attention to detail strives to retain much of what made both the novel and 1972 movie American classics. And yet, this same attention to detail will

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Deliverance – 3DS Review

Deliverance is a risky game. Developed by newcomer Southsoft for the 3DS, the game’s attention to detail strives to retain much of what made both the novel and 1972 movie American classics. And yet, this same attention to detail will

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