Drewcorp Coding and Technology

I long for the days of the old Sierra and Lucasarts Classic adventure games. The Laura Bow Mysteries, King’s Quest, The Dig, Full Throttle, Monkey Island. It’s been a long time since there’s been a great adventure game. Developers such as Quantic Dream – the creators of Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy here in North America) and [...]

My Xbox 360, purchased launch day November 4th, 2005, at exactly 43 months old died today of general hardware failure. The device and I conquered worlds together, collecting well over 20,000 Gamer Points over its lifespan. The evening before its death we were solving some of Orange Box: Portal’s challenge puzzles when suddenly it froze. [...]

I spent a good part of yesterday messing around with Wii’s Punch-Out!! It was not surprisingly pretty fun and even nostalgic, as the gameplay seems to be an updated version of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! for the NES, whereas the opponents seem to be a blend of Punch-Out!! and Super Punch-Out!! for the SNES. So there’s [...]

I just finished playing Xbox Live’s edition of 1 vs 100 Beta. I’ve had my Xbox 360 offline for a while. I get some games, beat them, rack up a disgusting amount of gamer points and sneak up on Daribus with my fattened Gamerscore. The only reason I plugged the network back in was I [...]

Yep, that’s right. I still have my launch console with up to four green lights and I’ve never had a problem with it. How many others out there are like me? Some anecdotal reports claimed the failure rate of launch systems to be in the range of 1/3. I have a hard time believing that, [...]

Years ago there was an unspoken competition between my group of friends – who had the best computer? This generally revolved around graphics since our primary focus in computers at the time was competitive LAN gaming. I was a late bloomer here and it was unusual for me to last very long in matches, at [...]