Plusses and Minuses: Order Up!

Massouken on August 11th, 2008

Have you ever wanted to feel the tedium, depression, and the unflinching sense that you’re slowly wasting your life away that comes with working in a kitchen cooking greasy cheeseburgers for the morbidly obese? Thanks to Order Up!, you can experience being a failure two-fold: By spending money on this game and by filling the virtual shoes of a short-order cook destined to slave away wearing a sweat-streaked chef’s apron for meager tips and fleeting satisfaction. In fact, this game may be a cleverly -designed viral marketing campaign against meat, the fast food industry, the Wii, Nintendo, and video games in general in disguise. I can’t imagine anyone wanting anything to do with any of that after playing Order Up. I’m convinced that the developers were single-handedly attempting to suck the joy out all of the above. For what purpose, you ask? I dare not fathom the depths of their devilish devices, and neither should you. But for what it’s worth: Mission Accomplished.

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From the Alley to the Kitchen: Confessions of a Hooking Mama

Cooking Mama on April 30th, 2008

By Cooking Mama

Before casual gamers everywhere could find me in my famous kitchen serving up some great eats for the successful Cooking Mama games, I had long, hard days of arduous labor culminating to years of regret. How do you think I paid for all these cooking supplies anyhow? Legitimate maternal work? Interning for Rachel Ray? Hell naw, I hustled hard for that paper. Let’s take a little tour down the darkest roads of my life, but i’m warning, you may never view me the same again…

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