Julia Sherred's Geeky Pleasures

As I mentioned before, Skewed and Reviewed has a magazine and the second issue is now available. If you are attending ECCC, I highly recommend you check out Gareth Von Kallenbach’s panel. His panel will be opening up ECCC and there are no other events at this time. There, you can purchase the second issue for $3 USD or... 

On Friday, November 27, 2009, I had the awesome pleasures of sitting down with the young and talented geeky musician, Mike Lombardo for an interview for my Geeky Pleasures radio show on Party 934 | 102.5 FM in the Hudson Valley NY. If you missed it (or even if you didn’t) you can listen to the interview here and download... 

On Friday, October 30 2009, the developers of Torchlight (Max Schaefer and Travis Baldree) from Runic Games sat down with me for an interview for my Geeky Pleasures radio show on Party 934 | 102.5 FM Hudson Valley NY. We talked about game play, the development of the game, what free extras players of the game can soon expect,... 

To celebrate the successful launch of Cities XL, the massively-multiplayer city building game, developer and publisher Monte Cristo is releasing a new trailer today. In this new trailer, viewers are presented with a glimpse of the choices players will have to make while playing Cities XL. For more information about Cities XL,... 

To celebrate the impending release of Cities XL, their massively-multiplayer city-building game, developer and publisher Monte Cristo has released a new multiplayer walkthrough video. This new gameplay trailer explains key elements of the “Planet Offer,” which is the game’s online component. 3D Chat, player-to-player resource... 

Have you ever wondered what it takes to be the designer, builder and mayor of a booming metropolis? Do you think you have what it takes to be all three? Today Monte Cristo has released a new video for Cities XL™, their upcoming city-building game, and in this new narrated walkthrough, titled “The Big City Experience,”... 

On Tuesday, September 22 2009, I had the pleasure of interviewing geek music sensation Jonathan Coulton for my Geeky Pleasures radio show on Party 934 | 102.5 FM Hudson Valley NY. Since it has now been aired, I will share it with those who could not tune in and listen. Jonathan is such a talented, gracious, humble, funny and... 

One of the highlights of PAX is the keynote. A few thousand people cram into the Main Theatre to hear this address. This year’s speaker was Ron Gilbert. Some of the younger people may not be familiar with him. He is a computer game designer, programmer, producer and of course geek. Some of his titles include the first... 

I do have to say my last four days have been pretty awesome. I got to geek out with Shane Nickerson. I got to geek out for hours with a friend. I got to geek out all day with my youngest over the Star Wars Lego game for Nintendo GameCube and listen to hours of sheer excitement when he finally unlocked the secret level, and then...