What Games Teach Monday, February 18, 2007 : 12:00 AM PDT By: Chris

Yeah, we're well into 2008 and I went with a Bioshock joke. For me, Bioshock is one of the staple games I can fall back on for material, much like Mario or Animal Crossing. However, I guess Mass Effect is actually the most recent game I can recall that confuses gaming and science terminology. Plasmids can now join the ranks of plasma, photons, and lasers as words that have been used so liberally in fiction that they are nearly completely removed from their technical definitions. Maybe someday there will be some video game analogue for every word used in science. Then, every scientific lecture would have some incredible double-meaning.

I think the comic will not veer, but drift in the direction of more science-y game humor. I believe this is a niche that perhaps hasn't been completely exploited in the overflowing sea of videogame webcomics. One has to wonder...perchance it hasn't been exploited because people aren't interested in it? I guess I will find out.

I completed Professor Layton and I was surprised by the quality of the story. There were some nice twists and all the loose ends dangled throughout the game were logically tied together in the end. And now, this week, Apollo Justice is like the second course of a wonderful point-and-click feast.