If the full version of Spore is half as compelling as the Creature Creator, it really is as different, special, and important as we were thinking.

Can you say paradigm shift?

I’ve spent hours in only a few days coming up with wacky, wild, and bizarre creatures. I’m dreaming the interface when I sleep and I’m looking at real animals and wondering what would happen if I changed them.

What would that bird look like with antlers? Or that squirrel with periscopic eyeballs?

September 7 is release day. Only three weeks now.

One of the greatest gadgets to come along in some time is the Flip camcorder, a pocket-sized device that has the power to turn everyone into an on-the-spot documentarian.

I look at the Flip in all its glory in my latest “Techno Logic” column in the Georgia Straight.

Read all about it over here.

In this week’s issue of the Georgia Straight are my reviews of a bunch of games that are all about conflict: Army of Two, Bladestorm: The Hundred Years’ War, Devil May Cry 4, Lost Odyssey, and Viking: Battle for Asgard.

Take it all in by reading “Trigger Happy” over here.

The New York Times Magazine recently ran an interview with Doris Lessing. She proves to be a bit brusque, but very to the point, matter-of-fact, and hilarious.

She reminds me of my grandmothers.

The second part of my round-up of E3 2008 has published at the Georgia Straight.

Among the best: Dead Space, Resistance 2, Mirror’s Edge, and Afro Samurai.

But there were more. Why not go read the entire list?