Archive for Author: Janra Roberts
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Player Two: Web Comics
Columns by Janra Roberts on Gaming Web comics. You all read them. You all know the big names. You know their purposes. Or do you? These sites, these pieces of our little subculture, are more important than many think. They are w
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Player Two: Wii Didn’t Start the Fire
Columns by Janra Roberts on Let me explain to you guys how I write this column. I sit around all month, trying to think of something to write. I read the news; I look at the Internet—and stare. Then I give up and decide to write the editor and say, "holy crap there’s nothing to write about HAVE MERCY. MERCY ON MY POUR SOUL." At that point it’s a given there won’t be anything. To write on something, it has to move me. It has to give me some pause. It has to piss me off, or make me laugh—do something or I feel it wouldn’t be deserving of my precious time. The other day, my friends—wow. Let's all talk about Nintendo, shall Wii?
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Player Two: Wal-Mart Doesn’t Have to Sell What it Doesn’t Want to Sell
Columns by Janra Roberts on Let's you and me have a little chat about the retail industry. No, no, come on. It'll be fun.
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Player Two: Year-End Lists Are a Joke
Columns by Janra Roberts on YEAR-END LISTS ARE A JOKE. The pointlessness of year-end lists astounds me. Every year the videogame journals, writers, newspapers and industry mags all get together and have a big circle J all over t
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Player Two: Take-Two Deserves Whatever it Gets
Columns by Janra Roberts on Take-Two and its subsidiary Rockstar Games have been sued. By whom do you ask? Well I guess everyone under the sun, and a few people on Mars.
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Guitar Hero (PS2)
Reviews by Janra Roberts on My friends, I have been to the mountaintop. I have looked into the valley...and it was good.
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Player Two: Jack Thompson Has a Point
Columns by Janra Roberts on He's right. He’s just a jackass and he's saying it stupid.