As you may have noticed, there has been no recent Cubicle Bear posts. I happens that the character of Spacebear actually belonged to a co-worker who has moved on to a cube far away. She, of course, kidnapped took her beloved toy with her.
Luckily, my supportive guy and/or diehard Cubicle Bear fan has found me a Spacebear replacement via the internets. As it turns out, demand for Spacebears on eBay is low. Obviously, this seller had no idea what a gem he had (awkwardly listed under Burger King toy Spongebob …

Today, someone told me that Satoshi Kon had passed away.  Kon’s body of work was almost entirely animated, which unfortunately kept those who could have most enjoyed his work away from it.  This is understandable.  The niche of American culture in which Japanese animation resides is sometimes unsavory to film snobs.
But Kon’s  strengths weren’t in the stereotypical areas of Japanese animation – his action sequences weren’t particularly over-exaggerated, nor were designs caricatures of the human form.  His strengths were in his impeccable sense of timing, sound design, and framing.  If …

I am a late comer to the Mass Effect franchise, and I wish I had found it sooner. The first game is almost three years old now, released in November of 2007, and its sequel was just released this last January, 2010. I kept hearing about it, but just never thought about it until I found a cheap, used copy of Mass Effect and tried it out.
I was hooked.
Mass Effect, and its vastly superior successor Mass Effect 2, has set a new level for video game storytelling in my mind. …