Extra Lives

I then realized I was contrasting my aesthetic sensitivity to that of some teenagers about a game that concerns itself with shooting as many zombies as possible.  It is moments like this that can make it so dispritingly difficult to care about video games. ~author Tom Bissell I’ve been an adventure game addict since I bought my first computer back in the Dark Ages of 1982-the game that hooked me was Infocom’s Zork.  My latest video game love is The Witcher 2, an adventure game with a lot more fighting and running than puzzling and thinking.  I still find myself…

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Voice-Over Voice Actor

Article first published as Book Review:Voice-Over Voice Actor on Technorati. Being an actor is one way to make a lot of money, another way to make a lot of money is to sell things to all the people who want to be actors.  I have a small collection of Voice Over books, most of them say pretty much the same thing, but it is always nice to get a slightly different prospective. One of the things they all agree on is that you must have a Demo and that you must have it done professionally.  It’s no good to whip…

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