Start Press: Daddy's Love, His Yoke

“Then he just sat there holding the binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land. He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.” (Cormac McCarthy, The Road) *** This past Sunday was Father’s Day, an occasion that has historically compelled me to look outward. It’s a day on which I’ve grown accustomed to considering my own dad, actively muting my lingering nitpicks with his job performance and focusing instead on the ferocity of the man’s affection; his contagious, untidy laughter; his irrepressibility; his resolve...  read more

BioShock 2 Review (Xbox 360)

Developers: 2K Marin, Digital Extremes Publisher: 2K GamesPlatforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC Welcome to the second coming of Rapture The star of 2007’s BioShock was not the faceless protagonist whose genuine identity was one of the game’s great revelations. Neither was it the power-mad Objectivist icon Andrew Ryan. It was Rapture, the failed utopia beneath the sea, as haunting as it was dreamlike. And it’s to Rapture that BioShock 2 returns, with its rotting architecture, its leaking machinery and its grand, gorgeous chaos....  read more