Archive for April, 2008

All good things…

Here’s the preface to this week’s final Electron Hut column in the Bentley Vanguard (a review of The World Ends With You, see the previous post):
I’ve been writing Electron Hut (‘Radio Shack’ in Scott Adams’ Dilbert comic strip) since Spring 2005, when I switched over from being a photographer for The Vanguard to a copy [...]

Remember kid, the world ends with you

Known in Japan as It’s A Wonderful World, The World Ends With You is a role-playing title from Square-Enix’s Kingdom Hearts development team and Jupiter (known for portable titles like Pokemon Pinball, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, and Picross DS).
Anti-social protagonist Neku wakes up in the middle of the busy Shibuya district with [...]

The Future of Electron Hut

As most of the folks who read this blog know, I write a weekly Arts and Entertainment column for the Bentley Vanguard where I review games and gadgets or just comment on the state of technology. Graduation is rapidly approaching, and although I’ll be here at Bentley for another year doing my graduate work, I’m [...]

Stories

I just finished reading Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman for the sixth(?) time or so, and it got me thinking about stories. I asked myself why I love fiction so much, why I get so much happiness out of tales of fantasy, but I don’t think I can put it into words. I think that, perhaps, [...]