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Being Enslaved

I firmly believe that I am falling in love with cinematic games. Graphics have never been better, Guillermo del Toro is hard at work on a trilogy, and although Alan Wake wasn’t as successful as it should have been, I believe it was a great example of a game genre that I have started calling [...]

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Fashionably Late to the Chime Party

I play a lot of video games. Naturally, this is bound to happen if one of your main hobbies is writing about video games. Sometimes the experience is brilliant, engaging the player with great mechanical qualities, such as the fluid movements and controls in Bayonetta or The Forgotten Sands. Or maybe what grabs the player [...]

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Book Report: Extra Lives

I saw this book featured in a slate.com article a few months ago and thought a-ha! This book will entertain me-it is relevant to my interests! But… There were so many things about this book that offended me.

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Deathspank & the Quest for Underpants

After many, many hours traversing a landscape destroyed by war, riddled with spooks, deserted by dinosaurs and guarded by robots, I finally finished the second Deathspank, Thongs of Virtue. And although I am 100% complete, I must admit that I am only about 87% pleased. To me, a sequel is something that improves upon the [...]

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DLC Mania: Costume Quest Edition

In my everyday life I do the normal work-home-work-home-weekend thing. I spend a lot of time during the ‘home’ periods playing various video and board games in true lazy nerd fashion. Lately, however, we have been doing the whole Christmas thing-attending holiday parties, visiting family, baking cookies, crafting, etc. during our free time. Last year [...]

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