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New Xbox 360 Experience Launches Today in Tandem With HD Netflix Streaming
Xbox 360 owners rejoice – the next phase in the set-top entertainment paradigm is upon us. As I mentioned in earlier posts, Microsoft was able to forge an exclusive partnership with online DVD rental mogul Netflix that brings the catalog direct to your home entertainment system (with an existing Netflix membership) at no additional cost.
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A Tough Day In Los Angeles
From the moment I step out of my building, I can see something strange is going on in the world. Perhaps it is because I was playing Fallout 3 – the new painstakingly detailed First Person Shooter for Xbox 360 about the world after a nuclear apocalypse wherein a dictatorship like American government known as…
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Fable 2 Pub Games – Free Tips and Insights
The Culturepin is about a lot of things, but it is primarily about contemporary culture. I say this to allay any confusion that may arise in my readers about the recent pattern of discussing video games. But if home video game consoles/entertainment centers are not a bona fide part of our daily life, then I…
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How to set up a classic standup arcade at home. Free.
A few years back I was at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles and on a whim, picked up a book called Lucky Wander Boy by D.B. Weiss. Upon reading it, it reminded me of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 in its post-modern sleight-of-hand mind-fuckness where the line between protagonist as anti-hero, my id…
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