Friday, December 7, 2012

Invader Zim creator Jhonen Vasquez on the PlayStation Vita and gaming snobbery

Games: The Gameological Society: Invader Zim creator Jhonen Vasquez on the PlayStation Vita and gaming snobbery

What Are You Playing This Weekend?: Jhonen Vasquez

In What Are You Playing This Weekend?, we discuss gaming and such with prominent figures in the pop-culture arena. We always start with the same question.
Jhonen Vasquez made a name in the early 2000s as a purveyor of dark comedy thanks to comics like Johnny The Homicidal Maniac and his anarchistic cartoon about the universe’s most incompetent conqueror, Invader Zim. The Gameological Society got Vasquez on the phone to talk about games, the post-smartphone world, and the joys of designing characters.

The Gameological Society: What are you playing this weekend?

Jhonen Vasquez: This weekend, my friend and I are getting through some of the [downloadable expansions] for Borderlands 2. I just finished Dishonored. I still do the Black Ops 2 multiplayer stuff. What else am I playing? I just got that Uncharted for the Vita. I get a weird feeling playing on a lot of the handhelds. It ...

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