One of the additions to Wild World is the Roost, a small cafe located in the basement of the Museum.

I've been visiting the owner, a pigeon named Brewster, since early January, and we've became friends over the weeks. He even feels comfortable enough to give me some rare coffee blends every now and then.

Today, though... today he offered me something new. Something extra special!

In our third annual retrospective, we reminisce over our favorite, most unpleasant and most memorable gaming experiences and find the year 2005 to have been relatively lackluster. Read along to find out why, and just who is responsible for our ennui.

I'm going to make this journal much simpler than it could be (because I'm tired, yo)

I could tell a story about how I drew 2HB as a design in Animal Crossing and sent it to the guys at Double Fine... but well... again, the tired thing.

And anyway, Tim Schafer does a much better describing what happened.

So go read my AC Double Fine Adventure!!!!

If you don't you don't have a soul! (That's a private joke between me and the link there, but you can get in on the fun if you just check it out.)

Or maybe I should say Air Trip.

You ever flown to another city and back in one day? I'm in for quite an adventure as I head down to Burbank (Northern LA) for lunch and a job interview and then jump back on a plane to head back home.

So hey, I won't be here for the whole day, so leave creative ideas as to what you think the job might be!

I wonder how many of you even know what I do...

It's done! The Averaging Gradius project, which simple goal was to use multiple runs of the first stage in the NES game Gradius to compare how people play the game, is complete. Check out the article to find out what it's all about and then watch the finished video to make your own observations.

While the tale I'm going to tell you is certainly not anything new, it's interesting enough to be brought up now and again for the benefit of those not 'in the know': Birdo started "her" life out as a video game character a bit differently than you know "her" now.

Namely, popular belief has it that Birdo is the first transgendered video game character (there's obviously no official comment from Nintendo on this.) Why? How!? Well, let's flip through his past, through the pages of old instruction manuals and game art.

Remember Game On, the traveling museum exhibit exploring the history of video games? Oh I certainly do. Well, Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry is relaunching Game On on February 3rd as Game On 2.0. That site just regurgitates the...

I got my first pair of glasses when I was in second grade. Putting them on changed everything. I was surprised to find with normal vision you could actually see the leaves on a tree!

I continued to get more and more powerful lenses as the years past. One of my eye doctor's said I had 'BIG E' vision, because I was unable to make out even the largest E on the eye chart. I was pretty near sided -- 20/400.

Note the was. For now I am glassesless, thanks to Lasik Eye Surgery. Woo.

My home. I'm relaxing on my Modern Couch in my custom made Pac-Man treads (note the dots on the sleeve) playing some MSG3 on my Widescreen TV, having just finished my Katamari painting.

Damn that Blathers .. he won't display it in the museum.

So there's something about Phoenix Wright that has been bugging me since I got the game. It has nothing to do with the fabulously quirky humor or wicked slick courtroom drama. Not even the crazy vodoo ghost possessions!

It's the logo.

Let the deliberations over the stylus & the gamepad begin.

Damn I hate lists so much. Especially top 10 lists of "favorites."

So of course, I made one.

This is Rasher:

He enjoys being rude, digging up fossils, layering thick sarcasm on everything he says and making the women in my town cry.

Until today, we always saw eye to eye.

In some games that require saving, especially in RPGs, a save slot might be uniquely named. Sometimes it's simply your character's name, sometimes the player is prompted to name the file (like classic Sierra games), and sometimes... well at least once, you are asked to sign your name on a touch pad!

Everyone knows that games that come out on Nintendo's systems often tag the system's name onto game titles? Everything for the SNES was "Super". And how many games had the "64" tagged to the end of it? The GBA has it's share of "Advance" games.

The DS is no different, like the predictably titled Mario Kart DS, but I've also noticed a new trend...