Shahryar Rizvi

Category: Games

  • Rainbow Six Vegas: Fear and Reloading in Las Vegas

    I recently acquired Rainbow Six Vegas 2 because it was cheap. I didn’t intend it, but My Vegas 2 character resembles a clone of Hunter Thompson. He is sure to inspire Fear and Loathing in my opponents. Bring it on you goddamn illiterate lizards. Bring it on like saffron. Update: New character that looks more […]

  • Cosmic Encounter

    Earlier this month I bough a highly recommended game called Cosmic Encounter. A classic of thirty years, Cosmic Encounter is a negotiation strategy game set in space. The game has apparently influenced games such as the Dune board game (which shares designers), and Magic The Gathering. In Cosmic Encounter, players choose a color with five planets […]

  • If I Can’t Game, It’s Not My Revolution: International Socialist Organization crashes Gamers meeting

    I wrote to the editor on North Texas Daily. On the night of Oct 21 at Pohl Recreation Center I witnessed an ugly scene between two campus organizations. Representatives and members of International Socialist Organization invited themselves into Room 207, reserved and occupied by UNT Gamer’s Club, to inform the attendees of the session that […]

  • E3 Report 2009

    This is a week late due to studying for the GRE. I missed a whole lot of stuff due to preparing  the GRE: A-Kon, Isis, and E3. Now I’m free and ready to kick Dallass. Microsoft Conference Highlights: Project Natal – How are you supposed to play a FPS with this? I imagine one will […]

  • E3 09 Review will be late

    I expect that my review of this year’s E3 will be late. I have the GRE pretty close to it, so I’ll get to a review as soon as It’s done.

  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R larp

    Fighting mutants in a live-action game | Reuters.com.

  • HD doesn’t mean anything if you don’t see color

    http://static.escapistmagazine.com/media/global/movies/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.3.swf ZP:50 Cent Blood in the Sand (FAIL, dingo ate his baby) http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=46773 HAWP:On Sexism(close, but not cigar) I maintain that talking about race and gender is impossible in current terms within the gaming community. The discussion seems to offer nothing but inane “color-blind” and “gender-blind” explanations about “moving on” that do nothing to address […]

  • The Brainy Gamer: On face value images

    The Brainy Gamer: On face value images. I don’t know if RE5 is a racist game. I’m not even sure it’s possible for a game, by itself, to be racist. What I do know is that RE5 contains historically and socially charged imagery that seems irresponsible to me and makes me feel very uncomfortable. Frankly, […]

  • No time, the walls fall down

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5FeY2_abM0&w=425&h=344] S.T.A.L.K.E.R build didn’t work,  so I bought Empire Total War which I am playing over the break. Empire is the most comprehensive and dense Total War game to date. The map is much bigger than past games and includes American and South Asian land theaters and 3-4 sea trade theaters. Territories are dotted with towns, […]

  • Летом потеряли

    GSC is kind to us!!! S.T.A.L.K.E.R early build has been released for free. This will be the best Spring Break ever!!!